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Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus) is a highly polymorphic species and in Lake Thingvallavatn, Iceland, four phenotypic morphs have evolved. These differences in morphology, especially in craniofacial structures are already apparent during embryonic development, indicating that genes important in the ...
ABSTRACT: 90-10 copper-nickel is one of the few engineering alloys available which offer both high resistance to seawater corrosion and biofouling. The alloy is not immune to microfouling but colonization of macrofouling is much restricted. The mechanism is not fully understood and is thought to be ...
ABSTRACT: In the UK, there are strict regulations governing the use of production chemicals in offshore oil and gas fields. Production chemicals are required to have a good environmental profile; during the last decade many harmful products used offshore have been replaced with more environmentally ...
ABSTRACT: The use of glutaraldehyde for decontamination and preservation of water systems involves important considerations relevant to its ecotoxicity profile, biodegradation properties and safe handling and storage guidelines. This paper will review the comprehensive data set from ecotoxicity studies ...
ABSTRACT Corrosion control of heavily fouled systems poses a significant challenge for integrity management programs. In cases where deposits build up in pipelines, or within pits, it is virtually impossible for a corrosion inhibitor to penetrate the deposit and impart inhibition at the underlying ...
ABSTRACT This paper provides some brief U.S. statistics on current water consumption and reuse, before broadly reviewing the potential for reusing various industrial water sources in cooling systems; and potential corrosion, scaling and fouling problems that may be caused by pollutants, such as oil, ...
ABSTRACT Numerous laboratory methods have been developed to evaluate the concentration of various corrosion inhibitors in oil and gas production fluids. The laboratory evaluation, often referred to as residual analysis, provides quick monitoring of the adequacy of treatment levels of corrosion inhibitors ...
ABSTRACT The use of chemical inhibitors for mitigation of corrosion has been a tried and tested method of corrosion control in the oil industry for many years. However, in recent years there have been requirements identified for these inhibitors that were not considered when they were designed in the ...
Oomycetes in the class Saprolegniomycetidae of the Eukaryotic kingdom Stramenopila have evolved as severe pathogens of amphibians, crustaceans, fish and insects, resulting in major losses in aquaculture and damage to aquatic ecosystems. We have sequenced the 63 Mb genome of the fresh water fish pathogen, ...
Toothed whales and bats have independently evolved biosonar systems to navigate and locate and catch prey. Such active sensing allows them to operate in darkness, but with the potential cost of warning prey by the emission of intense ultrasonic signals. At least six orders of nocturnal insects have ...
Mangroves and seagrass beds have long been perceived as important nurseries for many fish species. While there is growing evidence from the Western Atlantic that mangrove habitats are intricately connected to coral reefs through ontogenetic fish migrations, there is an ongoing debate of the value of ...
Background Bibliographic data can be used to map the research quality and productivity of a discipline. We hypothesized that bibliographic data would identify geographic differences in research capacity, species specialization, and interdisciplinary relationships within the veterinary profession that ...
We examined temporal changes in macrofaunal α- and β-diversity over several spatial scales (within patches, among patches, across landscapes and across regions) in Long Island Sound on the northeast USA coast. Regional ε-diversity was estimated at 144 taxa, however γ-diversity fluctuated over time as ...
The food web is one of the oldest and most central organising concepts in ecology and for decades, food chain length has been hypothesised to be controlled by productivity, disturbance, and/or ecosystem size; each of which may be mediated by the functional trophic role of the top predator. We characterised ...
Global stressors, including climate change, are a major threat to ecosystems, but they cannot be halted by local actions. Ecosystem management is thus attempting to compensate for the impacts of global stressors by reducing local stressors, such as overfishing. This approach assumes that stressors interact ...
While the stocking of captive-bred fish has been occurring for decades and has had substantial immediate genetic and evolutionary impacts on wild populations, its long-term consequences have only been weakly investigated. Here, we conducted a spatiotemporal analysis of 1428 Atlantic salmon sampled from ...
Background Understanding the genetic architecture of quantitative traits is important for developing genome-based crop improvement methods. Genome-wide association study (GWAS) is a powerful technique for mining novel functional variants. Using a family-based design involving 1,200 apple (Malus × domestica ...
Mucins are O-glycosylated glycoproteins present on the apex of all wet-surfaced epithelia with a well-defined expression pattern, which is disrupted in response to a wide range of injuries or challenges. The aim of this study was to identify mucin gene sequences of gilthead sea bream (GSB), to determine ...
The initial growth of the nacreous layer is crucial for comprehending the formation of nacreous aragonite. A flat pearl method in the presence of the inner-shell film was conducted to evaluate the role of matrix proteins in the initial stages of nacre biomineralization in vivo. We examined the crystals ...