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Existing methods to predict the effects of climate change on the biomass and production of marine communities are predicated on modelling the interactions and dynamics of individual species, a very challenging approach when interactions and distributions are changing and little is known about the ecological ...
Background Upon the completion of whole genome sequencing, thorough genome annotation that associates genome sequences with biological meanings is essential. Genome annotation depends on the availability of transcript information as well as orthology information. In teleost fish, genome annotation ...
The freshwater bryozoan Fredericella sultana (Blumenbach) is the most common invertebrate host of the myxozoan parasite Tetracapsuloides bryosalmonae, the causative agent of proliferative kidney disease in salmonid fish. Culture media play an important role in hatching of statoblasts and maintaining ...
In many European estuaries, extensive areas of intertidal habitats consist of bare mudflats and sandflats that harbour a very high abundance and biomass of macrobenthic invertebrates. The high stocks of macrobenthos in turn provide important food sources for the higher trophic levels such as fish and ...
Catfish is one of the most important aquaculture species in America (as well as in Asia and Africa). In recent years, the production of catfish has suffered massive financial losses due to pathogen spread and breakouts. Innate immunity plays a crucial role in increasing resistance to pathogenic organisms ...
In order to understand the antifungal activity of some derivatives of sanguinarine (S) and chelerythrine (C) and their structure-activity relationships, sixteen derivatives of S and C were prepared and evaluated for in vitro antifungal activity against seven phytopathogenic fungi by the mycelial growth ...
Few time series of deep-sea systems exist from which the factors affecting abyssal fish populations can be evaluated. Previous analysis showed an increase in grenadier abundance, in the eastern North Pacific, which lagged epibenthic megafaunal abundance, mostly echinoderms, by 9–20 months. Subsequent ...
Host-associated adaptation is emerging as a potential driver of population differentiation and speciation for marine organisms with major implications for ecosystem structure and function. Coralliophila abbreviata are corallivorous gastropods that live and feed on most of the reef-building corals in ...
Dopamine (DA) is a major neurotransmitter important for neuroendocrine control and recent studies have described genomic signaling pathways activated and inhibited by DA agonists and antagonists in the goldfish brain. Here we perform a meta-type analysis using microarray datasets from experiments conducted ...
Aim This study attempted to distinguish primary bladder adenocarcinoma (PBA) from metastatic colonic adenocarcinomas (MCA), which is a difficult diagnostic and clinical problem. Methods Twenty-four cases of bladder adenocarcinomas (12 primary & 12 metastatic colorectal) were included in the study ...
The hatching of cladoceran ephippia from a 15-cm long sediment core was investigated, and Ceriodaphnia quadrangula clones were isolated from different sediment layers. Bosmina microfossil data were also analyzed, and compared with the corresponding data from a Pb210 dated core, which allowed us to infer ...
Earth surface is covered for more than 2/3 by water with a spatial distribution of land to oceans and seas of about 1 to 1.5 in the Northern Hemisphere and 1 to 4 in the Southern Hemisphere. However the inhomogeneous spatial distribution of oceans have fascinated climatologist from a while this may ...
The introduction of game engines for the simulation and visualization of virtual worlds introduces a new paradigm for simulating complex systems. In this context, terrains can be represented using 3D landscapes and activities can be represented using intelligent agents. The Virtual Region More is a ...
The concept and application of fuzzy logic is becoming a vital tool in addressing the issues of environmental science and policy. It seemed to be a common practice to deal constantly with linguistic terms—not acceptable, just acceptable, acceptable, highly acceptable, etc. Considering its importance ...
The geothermal water can be considered as a potential for an alternative energy source in Lebanon. This is based on the geological data of the existence of igneous rocks at depth in contact with groundwater reservoirs. There are several indicators of geothermal water in different geographic localities ...
The paper presents the architecture of the MAS-based distributed fish disease diagnosis expert system on the basis of the analysis and summary on the characteristics of the existing distributed fish disease diagnosis expert system. That gives full play to the MAS-based distributed computing and to build ...
Understanding fish behavior by extracting normal motion patterns and then identifying abnormal behaviors is important for understanding the effects of environmental change. In the literature, there are many studies on normal/abnormal behavior detection in the areas of human behaviour analysis, traffic ...
Grain security is always related to the development of national economy, social stability and national independent global major strategic issues. This paper mainly study in Henan province of Henan province grain safety and agricultural structure adjustment problems, through the stable grain safety and ...
After implementing the comprehensive management project of wangkuai-Xidayang reservoir, water supplementing Baiyangdian Lake from Wangkuai Reservoir will pass through the rivers in Baoding urban area, providing water for environment in Baoding Municipality. It can counteract heat-island effect and beautify ...
With the economic rapid development and the natural resource shortages, the state promote marine development strategy which make the management and utilization of uninhabited island becomes more and more important. Depending on the characteristics of uninhabited island's development and management, ...