P. K. Siligam, and D. Bröhan, and L. Kaleschke, and J. Röhrs

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Jiselle A. BAKKER, and S. Christine PAETZOLD,, and Pedro A. QUIJÓN, and Jeff DAVIDSON

Current mitigation strategies against invasive tunicates on mussel aquaculture gear in Prince Edward Island concentrate on labour-intensive and costly fouling removal. Instead of removal, this study focused on preventing the settlement of the vase tunicate Ciona intestinalis and other fouling organisms by applying a layer of food grade oil to gear prior to recruitment. Laboratory tests established the adherence and persistence of shortening, a food grade oil with a melting point exceeding ambien...

Abd Aziz, N. A., and Mokhtar, S. I., and Paneer Selvam, A., and Mokhtar, S. B.

Aims: To evaluate the microbial count and palatability acceptance of spoiled fish after treatment with traditionally used naturalsolution.Methodology and results: To compare microbial count of spoiled fish before and after treatment with natural solution practicedby local people in Malaysia, 10 g of spoiled fish was respectively rinsed with 100 mL of 0.1% of natural solution such as Averrhoabilimbi extract, rice rinsed water, rice vinegar, Citrus aurantifolia extract, salt, flour, and Tamarindus...

Masudur Rahman, and Mithun Halder, and Nazia Hassan, and Farhana Haque

An analysis of energy input-output in boro rice cultivation was undertaken for well recognized salinity classes (S1 -S5 ) and farm categories (landless, marginal, small, medium, and large) in south-west coastal Bangladesh. A total of 125 target farmers were surveyed by using structured questionnaire during the boro season (January-May 2011). Survey data were converted into energy by using the respective energy co-efficient equivalents. The results revealed that the sequences of total energ...

Candice M. Jooste, and Jody Oliver, and Arsalan Emami-Khoyi, and Peter R. Teske

Abstract The South African coastline can be divided into at least four temperature-defined marine bioregions, including the tropical north-east coast, the subtropical east coast, the warm-temperate south coast, and the cool-temperate west coast. There are also two biogeographical transition zones, the south-west coast and the south-east coast (or Wild Coast). The former is sometimes considered a distinct marine bioregion, but no such status has yet been suggested for the Wild Coast. Previous dat...

Young-Sool Hah, and Hye Jin Chung, and Sneha B. Sontakke, and In-Young Chung, and Sunmi Ju, and Seong-Wook Seo, and Ji-Myong Yoo, and Seong-Jae Kim

Abstract Background To measure ascorbic acid concentration in aqueous humor of patients with cataract after oral or intravenous vitamin C supplementation. Methods Forty-two eyes of 42 patients with senile cataract who underwent uncomplicated cataract surgery were enrolled. Patients (n = 14 each) were administered oral vitamin C (2 g), intravenous vitamin C (20 g) or no treatment (control group) on the day before surgery. Samples of aqueous humor (0.1 cm3) were obtained by anterior chamber aspira...

Ling-Jun Li, and Ecosse Lamoureux, and Tien Yin Wong, and Ngee Lek

Abstract Background Poor glycemic control in Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) patients is strongly associated with an increased risk of diabetes-related microvascular complications later in life, but it is unclear whether short period of poor glycemic control in children with T1D can cause evident microvascular morphological changes long before any pathological manifestation. Our study aimed to investigate the longitudinal association between poor glycemic control and subsequent changes in retinal microvas...

Laxmikanta Sahu, and Shobhana Dey

Abstract Coal is primarily beneficiated by wet gravity methods. The wet processing of coal is an efficient practice. However, it introduces the moisture in the range of 6%–15%, depending upon the size of coal which is as detrimental as ash content to the heating value of coal. Dry beneficiation of coal fines was carried out using an air fluidized vibrating table in which the coal particles get separated from the heavier mineral particles as a result of horizontal and vertical stratification. Two...

Ya-Le Deng, and Yun-Jie Ruan, and Song-Ming Zhu, and Xi-Shan Guo, and Zhi-Ying Han, and Zhang-Ying Ye, and Gang Liu, and Ming-Ming Shi

Abstract The interactions between environmental factors and bacterial community shift in solid-phase denitrification are crucial for optimum operation of a reactor and to achieve maximum treatment efficiency. In this study, Illumina high-throughput sequencing was applied to reveal the effects of different operational conditions on bacterial community distribution of three continuous operated poly(butylene succinate) biological denitrification reactors used for recirculating aquaculture system (R...

Heng Ma, and Jun Yang, and Haizhu Xie, and Jing Liu, and Fang Wang, and Xiao Xu, and Wei Bai, and Kai Lin

Abstract Background Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a risk factor for cognitive impairment in the elderly. Manifestations of subclinical CVDs can be found in patients with cognitive impairment. The aim of the present study was to test the hypothesis that patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) have different magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-derived regional myocardial motion indices compared with healthy controls. Methods Eleven MCI patients (age, 65.5 years ±5.9; range, 55–81 years old) a...

Trine Stub, and Nina Foss, and Ingrid Liodden

Abstract Background Complementary therapists spend considerable time with their patients, especially in the first consultation. The communication between patients and their therapists is important for raising consciousness and activation of the patient’s self-healing power. Thus, the aims in this study were to delineate what complementary therapists regard as essential in patient consultations, their view of the healing process, and how the therapists understand the placebo effect and its positi...

Hyeonho Yun, and Erfan Shahkar, and Ali Hamidoghli, and Seunghan Lee, and Seonghun Won, and Sungchul C. Bai

Abstract Different levels of dietary soybean meal (SBM) as a fish meal (FM) replacer, with and without amino acid supplementation, for whiteleg shrimp, Litopenaeus vannamei reared in the biofloc system was examined in eight weeks of feeding trial. Eight experimental diets consisted of a basal diet with 0% FM replacement by SBM provided in clear sea water without biofloc system (S0SW), four diets replacing FM at 0% (S0), 33% (S33), 67% (S67) and 100% (S100) by SBM, and three diets replacing FM at...

Kari C. Kugler, and Katherine N. Balantekin, and Leann L. Birch, and Jennifer S. Savage

Abstract Background Emerging approaches to building more efficient and effective behavioral interventions are becoming more widely available. The current paper provides an empirical example of the use of the engineering-inspired multiphase optimization strategy (MOST) to build a remotely delivered responsive parenting intervention to prevent obesity among children of low-income mothers with and without depressive symptoms. Methods Participants were 107 mothers with (n = 45) and without (n = 62) ...

Wessley Merten, and Roberto Rivera, and Richard Appeldoorn, and Kelvin Serrano, and Omar Collazo, and Nilda Jimenez

A key challenge in small-scale fisheries that use moored fish aggregating devices (mFADs) is the ability to accurately quantify multi-sector fishing activity through fishery-independent methods. Here, we present a novel fishery-independent assessment of multi-sector fishing activity associated with a newly developed open access mFAD programme off San Juan, Puerto Rico. We identified three fishing sectors (recreational, charter and commercial) and 158 individual fishing vessels that routinely ope...

Ana Gordoa, and Jordi Boada, and Antoni García-Rubies, and Oscar Sagué

Characterizing fish communities must be a priority to safeguard resources and determine critical changes. Here, species richness and the spatial and temporal evolution in the structure of fish assemblages were analysed based on photos taken in underwater free-diving contests. A total of 29 contests held from 2008 to 2015 at four different locations along the northeastern Spanish coast, including a marine protected area were analysed. Contests reward the number of species per participant and phot...

Iraj Mahdavi, and Mohammad Mahdi Paydar, and Golnaz Shahabnia

Disasters can cause many casualties and considerable destruction mainly because of ineffective preventive measures, incomplete preparedness, and weak relief logistics systems. After catastrophic events happen, quick and effective response is of great importance, so as to having an efficient logistic plan for distributing needed relief commodities efficiently and fairly among affected people. In this paper, we propose a fuzzy multi-objective, multi-modal, multi-commodity logistic model in emergen...

A. Salabarnada, and A. Salabarnada, and C. Escutia, and U. Röhl, and C. H. Nelson, and R. McKay, and F. J. Jiménez-Espejo, and P. K. Bijl, and J. D. Hartman, and S. L. Strother, and U. Salzmann, and D. Evangelinos, and A. López-Quirós, and J. A. Flores, and F. Sangiorgi, and M. Ikehara, and H. Brinkhuis, and H. Brinkhuis

<p>Antarctic ice sheet and Southern Ocean paleoceanographic configurations during the late Oligocene are not well resolved. They are however important to understand the influence of high-latitude Southern Hemisphere feedbacks on global climate under CO₂ scenarios (between 400 and 750 ppm) projected by the IPCC for this century, assuming unabated CO₂ emissions. Sediments recovered by the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) at Site U1356, offshore of the Wilkes Lan...

Shuji Ohtani, and Masaru Akiyama, and Hiroshi Kanda

The species composition and distribution of soil algae in situ were investigated by the direct observation using the contact slide method with reference to the available water in soils of the Yukidori Valley, Langhovde, Antarctica. Glass slides were vertically buried at five sites with a few meters intervals along a stream for a year from January 1988. Eleven taxa of Cyanophyceae, eight taxa of Chlorophyceae and four taxa of Bacillariophyceae were recognized on the collected glass slides. Actino...

U. Platt, and L. J. Carpenter, and K. E. Hornsby, and D. Pöhler, and J. Buxmann, and K. Seitz, and R.-J. Huang, and T. Hoffmann

Discrete in situ atmospheric measurements of molecular iodine (I₂) were carried out at Mace Head and Mweenish Bay on the west coast of Ireland using diffusion denuders in combination with a gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) method. I₂, IO and OIO were also measured by long-path differential optical absorption spectroscopy (LP-DOAS). The simultaneous denuder and LP-DOAS I₂ measurements were well correlated (<i>R</i>²=0.80) but the denuder met...

M. Kaplan, and F. G. Renaud, and G. Lüchters

The tsunami of December 2004 caused extensive human and economic losses along many parts of the Sri Lankan coastline. Thanks to extensive national and international solidarity and support in the aftermath of the event, most people managed to restore their livelihoods completely but some households did not manage to recover completely from the impacts of the event. The differential in recovery highlighted the various vulnerabilities and coping capacities of communities exposed to the tsunami. Und...

Dimitri Papagiannopoulos, and Patrick Whelan, and Waseem Ahmad, and James Rybak, and Bala Hota, and Leslie Deane, and Ajay Nehra

Purpose: The appropriate management of infected obstructing ureteral calculi is prompt genitourinary decompression. Urine cultures are the gold standard for confirming infection but often take 24–48 h to result. Although white blood cell (WBC) count is an important diagnostic laboratory test, it is a nonspecific inflammatory marker. Similarly, urinalysis (UA) can be misleading in the setting of a contaminated sample, bladder colonization, or in cases of a completely obstructed the upper urinary ...

Lucélia Donatti, and Edith Fanta

The retina of Metynnis roosevelti Eigenmann, 1915, a very active freshwater fish, was investigated by light and electron microscopy and was found to have a complex neuronal structure that allows rapid responses of visual stimuli. Retina photoreceptors are double cones, single long cones, single short cones and rods. Cone inner segments are arranged as mosaics. The outer nuclear layer contains small nuclei of twin cones, long and wide nuclei of long single cones, spherical large nuclei of short c...

Daniel Shimada Brotto, and Werther Krohling, and Ilana Rosental Zalmon

Stationary visual census surveys were performed on an experimental artificial reef (21º29'S, 41º00'W) to clarify the role of structural complexity and benthic community as fish community modeling agents. Concrete modules of four types were grouped according to the combination of structural complexity through the presence/absence of holes and favourable/unfavourable surface for benthic colonization by anti-fouling painting. The survey (December 2002 to March 2003) showed higher abundance, richnes...

Amritanshu Ram, and Birendranath Banerjee, and Vadiraja S Hosakote, and Raghavendra M Rao, and Raghuram Nagarathna

Background: Yoga is found to be effective in reducing stress levels and radiation-induced DNA damage, and improving the quality of life, in breast cancer patients. The present study was aimed at comparing the apoptotic index (AI) and DNA damage of advanced yoga practitioners with those of breast cancer patients. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional pilot study compared three groups (n = 9 each) of age-matched subjects viz. (1) Carcinoma breast patients in stage II or III undergoing radiat...

X. Mari

The absorption of anthropogenic atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO₂) by the ocean provokes its acidification. This acidification may alter several oceanic processes, including the export of biogenic carbon from the upper layer of the ocean, hence providing a feedback on rising atmospheric carbon concentrations. The effect of seawater acidification on transparent exopolymeric particles (TEP) driven aggregation and sedimentation processes were investigated by studying the interactions betwe...

T. S. Dotto, and R. Kerr, and M. M. Mata, and M. Azaneu, and I. Wainer, and E. Fahrbach, and G. Rohardt

We assessed and evaluated the performance of five ocean reanalysis products in reproducing essential hydrographic properties and their associated temporal variability for the Weddell Sea, Antarctica. The products used in this assessment were ECMWF ORAS4 (European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts Ocean Reanalysis System 4), CFSR (Climate Forecast System Reanalysis), MyOcean UR025.4 (University of Reading), ECCO2 (Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean, Phase II) and SODA (Si...

A R Khalighi, and M R Khalighi, and R Behdani, and J Jamali, and A Khosravi, and Sh. Kouhestani, and H Radmanesh, and S Esmaeelzadeh, and N Khalighi

Background & objectives: Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) leads to several gastrointestinal (GI) problems and complications leading to malabsorption. The effectiveness of probiotics in the treatment of SIBO syndrome has not been well studied. This pilot study was aimed to assess the efficacy of a probiotic consisting of lactobacilli in the treatment of SIBO. Methods: In this study, 30 cases suffering from chronic abdominal pain or diarrhoea and with a positive hydrogen breath test ...

Leonardo Henrique Teixeira, and José Luiz Attayde

Aim: The Nile tilapia - Oreochromis niloticus(Linnaeus 1758) - is an exotic omnivorous filter-feeding fish that has been stocked for three decades in man-made lakes of Northeastern Brazil. Most experiments manipulating omnivorous filter-feeding fish in eutrophic lakes and reservoirs shows that their presence tends to increase phytoplankton biomass and primary production. In this study, we tested the hypothesis that tilapia interact synergistically with nutrient enrichment so that the effects of ...

A. Vasilis Vasiliauskas, and J. Barysienė

Over the recent years, the use of containers in the transport system has dramatically increased. The rise of world containerisation is the result of the interplay of macroeconomic, microeconomic and policy-oriented factors. World trade is facilitated through the elimination of trade barriers and the liberalisation and deregulation of markets. Market liberalisation revealed a demand for enhancing the development of logistics services throughout the world. In the conceptual metamorphosis of the tr...

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Flavia Moraes Lins-de-Barros, and Thierry Sauzeau, and Josefa Varela Guerra

Large-scale anthropic intervention in the coastal zone started mainly in the 19th century due to the need to accommodate increasingly larger ships in the port areas, and to the diffusion of the value of beaches as places for sea-bathing. Throughout the 20th century, urban growth of coastal areas increased, and it is where, nowadays, some of the largest cities in the world are established. Also, several popular tourist destinations are found in the coastal areas, creating a huge flux of people. I...

Wen Yang, and Lu Xia, and Zhihong Zhu, and Lifen Jiang, and Xiaoli Cheng, and Shuqing An

Abstract The impacts of coastal reclamation on carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) sinks of coastal wetlands remain unclearly understood. This study was conducted to investigate the alterations of soil organic C and N (SOC and SON) pools following conversion of Phragmites australis salt marsh into fishpond, wheat and rapeseed fields and town construction land through reclamation along Jiangsu coast in eastern China. Coastal reclamation significantly increased stocks of soil total, labile and recalcitran...

Gonzalo Araujo, and Sally J. Snow, and Andy Cornish, and Ryan Murray, and Kymry Delijero, and Alessandro Ponzo, and Marivel Dygico

We report the occurrence of the rare and Endangered Aetomylaeus vespertilio (Bleeker, 1852) at the remote archipelago&amp;nbsp;of Cagayancillo, Palawan in the Sulu Sea, Philippines. Only 1 previous&amp;nbsp; report of the species exists from the&amp;nbsp;country, a juvenile specimen in the Pasil market, Cebu City in 2000. During an in-water shark and ray survey at&amp;nbsp;Cagayancillo Island in April 2017, a female individual A. vespertilio with a disc width of approximately 200 cm, and&amp;nbs...

Alfredo Carvalho Filho, and Maria Isabel Paiva

Two species of different families belonging to the order Anguilliformes have their ranges extended in the southwestern Atlantic: the chlopsid Chlopsis dentatus (Seale, 1917) from Rio de Janeiro and the muraenid Gymnothorax maderensis (Johnson, 1862) from Bahia.  The new records extend the distribution of these species south along the Brazilian coastline.  Morphometric data of the specimens are provided and compared to data from the literature.

Daniel Parada, and Danté Fenolio, and Angel Olivares, and José Nuñez

We report a new locality record for the Mehuín Green Frog, Insuetophrynus acarpicus Barrio, 1970, a Critically Endangered species from southern Chile. The new locality is about 90 km southeast of the type locality and expands the known geographical distribution 40 km to the southeast. The new record confirms the presence of I. acarpicus south of the Lingue and Valdivia rivers. Our documentation demonstrates a discontinuous distribution of this frog in the Valdivian Coastal Range of Chile and int...

Jozef Oboňa, and Beáta Baranová, and Ľuboš Hrivniak, and Katarína Kisková, and Peter Manko, and Iwona Słowińska

The scarce European dance fly Chelifera aperticauda Collin, 1927 (Diptera: Empididae: Hemer­odromiinae) is recorded for the first time from Slovakia. One male was found in the Pieniny Mts. The distribution and habitats of this species are reviewed and briefly discussed.

Luisa Sarmento-Soares, and Heraldo Britski, and Marcia Anjos, and Angela Zanata, and Ronaldo Martins-Pinheiro, and Marluce Barretto

Imparfinis borodini Mees &amp;amp; Cala, 1989 is recorded in low population abundance in the upper Paraná, Tocantins and São Francisco river drainages according to the scientific literature and available collection data, but it has not been previously recorded from a coastal Brazilian river. Herein, the geographic range of this species is extended to the Rio de Contas basin in northeastern Brazil. This represents the first record in a coastal system. Additionally, I. borodini was captured in the...

Shalini Rajakaruna, and Gajaba Ellepola, and Thilanka Gunaratne, and Sumedha Madawala, and Kithsiri Ranawana

Systomus martenstyni is an endemic and endangered fish of Sri Lanka. This species was earlier known to be restricted to the Amban Ganga River basin. Recently two populations of S. martenstyni were located in two major tributaries of River Mahaweli: Loggal Oya and Badulu Oya in the Uva province of Sri Lanka. These new populations are relatively small and are facing the threat of habitat quality degradation and habitat loss. Effective conservation actions should be undertaken to conserve this enda...

Marcelo Brito, and Sergio Lima, and Waldir Berbel-Filho, and Rodrigo Torres

The present study reports the first record of the small characid fish Hyphessobrycon itaparicensis Lima and Costa, 2001 in two coastal drainages of Sergipe State, Brazil. This species was collected in three sampling sites from Piauí and Sergipe river basins, both in the hydrographic ecoregion of Northeastern Mata Atlantica. Aspects of habitat, diet composition, phenotypic variation, molecular identification and distribution of H. itaparicensis are herein discussed.

Sofía López, and María Corbo, and Damian Castellini, and Nicolás Lajud, and Mariano Castro

We report the first record of Porichthys porossisimus and Macrodon atricauda in the Mar Chiquita coastal lagoon, Argentina. Morphometric and meristic data of collected specimens are also presented in order to validate its taxonomic identification.

Zakeyuddin Shafiq, and Md. Ruddin, and Hazrin Zarul, and Mohammad Syaiful, and Md. Khaironizam, and Puteh Khaled, and Yusoff Hamzah

The fish fauna was surveyed at Bukit Merah Reservoir of Perak (one of the oldest reservoir in Peninsular Malaysia) and its catchment areas. A total of 47 species from 19 families were recorded: 38 fish species were recorded from eight sampling stations located in selected tributaries (lotic zone), while another 25 fish species were recorded in the reservoir itself (lentic zone). Based on a combination of previously published checklists and the present survey, a total of 76 fish species were reco...

Pascal Hablützel, and Takayuki Yunoki, and Luis Velasco

In 2010 and 2011 new checklists of fish species occurring in the Bolivian Amazon have been published. We add 21 species to these lists of which two are new reports for Bolivia (Apistogramma urteagai Kullander, 1986 and Vandellia sanguinea Eigenmann, 1917). The other 19 taxa have been reported earlier for the Bolivian Amazon. Their absence on previous checklists indicate the difficulties to compile an overview of the current literature on the fish fauna of the Bolivian Amazon. The ichthyofauna of...

Marco Pivari, and Pedro Viana, and Felipe Leite

The São Francisco River forms one of the main Brazilian hydrographic basins of ca. 645,000 km2. The Pandeiros River is a tributary situated on the left margin of the São Francisco and is considered a strategic component for conservation of biodiversity of that hydrographic basin. An inventory of the aquatic macrophyte flora of the Pandeiros River Wildlife Sanctuary was carried out, using collections of botanical samples and examination of specimens at the BHCB Herbarium. Aquatic environments in ...

Diego Lozano-Cortés, and Edgardo Londoño-Cruz, and Vanessa Izquierdo, and Fatnori Arias, and Madeleine Barona, and Valentina Zambrano

The composition of marine macroinvertebrates in two localities (Isla Palma and Los Negritos) of Malaga Bay was studied. This bay is located in the Pacific coast of Colombia and was recently declared National Natural Park. The rapid ecological assessment revealed a total of 128 species belonging to 64 families and 11 classes (including threatened species). The most common groups were: Gastropoda (27%), Polychaeta (26%), Malacostraca (16%) and Pelecypoda (13%). Even though the two sites are relati...

Daniela de França Barros, and Jansen Zuanon, and Fernando Pereira de Mendonça, and Helder Mateus Viana Espírito Santo, and André Vieira Galuch, and Ana Luisa Mangabeira Albernaz

Small headwaters streams of the Neotropical region usually have high species richness and diversity. This study aimed to investigate the species composition and abundance of fish fauna in the headwaters streams of the Madeira-Purus interfluvial plain in the Brazilian Amazon. A total of 22 streams of 1st to 3rd order were sampled during two expeditions at two separate locations in April-May and July of 2007. A total of 5508 fishes were captured using hand and small seine nets, belonging to 78 spe...

Fabián Llanos, and Mauricio Failla, and Gustavo García, and Pablo Giovine, and Mirta Carbajal, and Patricia González, and Daniel Paz Barreto, and Petra Quillfeldt, and Juan Masello

The main ecosystem in northern Patagonia, Argentina, is the Monte, a semi-desert scrubland home to a high biodiversity. Monte is the most endangered ecosystem of southern South America, with an annual rate of clearance of the native vegetation estimated at 3.7%. Here we report the results of bird surveys carried out in the province of Río Negro, northern Patagonia. We surveyed four localities mostly dominated by the Monte ecosystem, between 1986 and 2010. Three localities are Important Bird Area...

Luciana Cogliatti-Carvalho, and Thereza Rocha-Pessôa, and André Nunes-Freitas, and Carlos Rocha

Bromeliaceae is one of the most representative plant families in restinga habitats. We analyzed the species richness and composition of Bromeliaceae in 13 restinga habitats along the Brazilian coast. We found a total of 41 species distributed along the restinga habitats studied. The restinga of Praia do Sul, in the state of Rio de Janeiro, had the highest number of species (15), whereas the restinga of Abaeté, in the state of Bahia, had the lowest (4). Our data are suggestive that the Doce River...

Kristine N. Moody, and Johanna L. K. Wren, and Donald R. Kobayashi, and Michael J. Blum, and Margaret B. Ptacek, and Richard W. Blob, and Robert J. Toonen, and Heiko L. Schoenfuss, and Michael J. Childress

Abstract Background Local adaptation of marine and diadromous species is thought to be a product of larval dispersal, settlement mortality, and differential reproductive success, particularly in heterogeneous post-settlement habitats. We evaluated this premise with an oceanographic passive larval dispersal model coupled with individual-based models of post-settlement selection and reproduction to infer conditions that underlie local adaptation in Sicyopterus stimpsoni, an amphidromous Hawaiian g...

Thaís Torres Pires, and Gonzalo Rostan, and José Eugênio Guimarães

Com objetivo de obter valores dos parâmetros do hemograma e de proteína plasmática total, de tartarugas marinhas da espécie Caretta caretta criadas em cativeiro, foram coletados cinco mililitros de sangue através de venopunção do seio venoso cervical dorsal de oito animais daquela espécie, utilizando como anticoagulante a heparina de sódio. Os achados hematológicos mostraram valores médios de eritrócitos de 275.000/µl (±28.030,59), volume globular de 33,12% (±2,35), concentração de hemoglobina d...

Janelle Renee Thompson, and Hanny E. Rivera, and Hanny E. Rivera, and Collin J. Closek, and Monica eMedina

In the last two decades, genetic and genomic studies have revealed the astonishing diversity and ubiquity of microorganisms. Emergence and expansion of the human microbiome project has reshaped our thinking about how microbes control host health – not only as pathogens, but also as symbionts. In coral reef environments, scientists have begun to examine the role that microorganisms play in coral life history. Herein we review the current literature on coral-microbe interactions within the contex...