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Astyanax mexicanus is a Mexican native fish that have surface and cave phenotypes. Due to their distinctive characteristics caused by and independent evolution it is a model for studies on evolution and development, and it could be used for cross-species comparisons in aquaculture since it is close ...
As one of the critical components of intrusion detection devices, the performance of the pyroelectric infrared sensor directly affects the performance of various types of intrusion detectors. In the process of performance progression, strict selection of suitable pyroelectric infrared sensor is essential ...
Finite-time stable guidance and feedback control scheme for steering a class of autonomous underactuated vehicles in SE(3), is given here. The underactuated vehicles are characterized by fewer control inputs than the number of configuration variables and modeled as a rigid body with four control inputs. ...
Water quality assessment and prediction of Lake Michigan are becoming major challenges in Northwest Indiana, USA. Traditionally, mechanistic simulation models are employed for water quality modeling and prediction. However, given the complicate nature of Lake Michigan in Northwestern Indiana, the detailed ...
IoT has not fully diffused in Africa to address various challenges faced by African people. To address the emergence and pervasiveness of IoT in Africa, we present an open IoT, and big data platform as an innovation platform to accelerate innovations in rural Africa. However, the technology is not dedicated ...
Population genetic studies of species inhabiting the deepest parts of the oceans are still scarce and only until recently we started to understand how oceanographic processes and topography affect dispersal and gene flow patterns. The aim of this study was to investigate the spatial population genetic ...
The aim of this study was to identify the pillars for the realization of a proposal of monitoring plan based on the application of Monitored Natural Recovery processes. The proposal has been realized considering the Mar Piccolo case study in Taranto (Southern Italy) that has been included into the list ...
The development of shrimp aquaculture has been severely affected by viral diseases resulting in a huge economic burden to the industry. White spot disease (WSD) has caused severe mortality in farmed shrimp in many countries. Globally aquaculture industries face huge economic losses due to rapid spread ...
Eleven new depsides—thielavins W–Z (1–4) and thielavins Z1–Z7 (5–11)—and also four known thielavins—A, H, J, and K (12–15)—were isolated from the ethyl acetate extract of a marine-derived fungal strain Thielavia sp UST030930-004. All of these compounds were evaluated for antifouling activity against ...
The big blue octopus, Octopus cyanea, occurs on coral reefs throughout the Indo-Pacific region from East Africa to the Hawaiian Islands, wherein it is of great ecological and socio-economic importance. However, many components of its intraspecific biodiversity, such as population structure, are unresolved ...
Abstract Evolutionary dynamics of structural genetic variation in lineages of hybrid origin is not well explored, although structural mutations may increase in controlled hybrid crosses. We therefore tested whether structural variants accumulate in a fish of recent hybrid origin, invasive Cottus, relative ...
Anaerobic microbial hydrocarbon degradation is a major biogeochemical process at marine seeps. Here we studied the response of the microbial community to petroleum seepage simulated for 190 days in a sediment core from the Caspian Sea using a sediment-oil-flow-through (SOFT) system. Untreated (without ...
ABSTRACT With a set of perfect extracellular lignocellulolytic enzymes, white-rot fungus has been recognized as playing an important role in the degradation of lignocellulose materials, which leads to the possibility of creating a composite enzymatic system with high hydrolysis efficiency in vitro. ...
This study explores the effect of high dietary arachidonic acid (ARA) levels (high ARA) compared with low dietary ARA levels (control) on the general metabolism using zebrafish as the model organism. The fatty acid composition of today’s ‘modern diet’ tends towards higher n-6 PUFA levels in relation ...
Background MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are endogenous small non-coding RNAs that regulate gene expression by targeting specific mRNAs. However, the possible role of miRNAs in the ovary differentiation and development of fish is not well understood. In this study, we examined the expression profiles and differential ...
Several administrative polices have been implemented in order to reduce the negative impacts of fishing on natural ecosystems. Four eco-social models with different levels of complexity were constructed, which represent the seaweed harvest in central-northern Chile under two different regimes, Management ...
The family Sciaenidae, known as croakers or drums, is one of the largest perciform fish families. A recent multi-gene based study investigating the phylogeny and biogeography of global sciaenids revealed that the origin and early diversification of this family occurred in tropical America during the ...
Background Body size in sheep is an important indicator of productivity, growth and health as well as of environmental adaptation. It is a composite quantitative trait that has been studied with high-throughput genomic methods, i.e. genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in various mammalian species. ...
Summary Genomic rearrangements arising during polyploidization are an important source of genetic and phenotypic variation in the recent allopolyploid crop Brassica napus. Exchanges among homoeologous chromosomes, due to interhomoeologue pairing, and deletions without compensating homoeologous duplications ...
ABSTRACT Here is presented the whole-genome sequence of Streptococcus thermophilus APC151, isolated from a marine fish. This bacterium produces gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) in high yields and is biotechnologically suitable to produce naturally GABA-enriched biofunctional yogurt. Its complete genome ...