Managing change in tropical forests and developing a viable REDD+ strategy for alleviating climate change is a highly complex, intricate process necessitating the expertise of managers, the local community and scientists. ...
A ciliate associated with the coral disease brown band (BrB) was identified as a new species belonging to the class Oligohymenophorea, subclass Scuticociliatia. The ciliates were characterized by the presence of large ...
A new UV filter compound, 4-(2-amino-3-hydroxyphenyl)-4-oxobutanoic acid O-diglucoside, has been identified in human lenses. The structure suggests that it is a further metabolic product of the second most abundant UV ...
Vibrio owensii DY05 is a serious pathogen causing epizootics in the larviculture of ornate spiny lobster Panulirus ornatus. In the present study a multi-tiered probiotic screening strategy was used to identify a probiotic ...
Correct identification and classification of sponges is challenging due to ambiguous or misleading morphological features. A particular case is a blue keratose sponge occasionally referred to as the "Blue Photo Sponge" ...
Ballast waters of ships coming from Egyptian (Port Said) and Lebanese (Beirut) harbours have been collected in the West Mediterranean harbour of Naples (Italy). Samples have been cultured for one month in order to identify ...
Human-made physical barriers to fish passage were identified in the Wet Tropics region, Far North Queensland, Australia, through a desktop GIS analysis of the stream and transport networks. A total of 3748 of such potential ...
Using a high throughput radioligand binding assay, we assessed aqueous ethanol extracts from 2885 marine organisms representing 17 phyla from the Indo-Pacific for their capacity to influence [I-125]epidermal growth factor ...
Background: In marine organisms, and in particular for benthic invertebrates including echinoderms, olfaction is a dominant sense with chemosensation being a critical signalling process. Until recently natural product ...
DNA barcoding potentially offers scientists who are not expert taxonomists a powerful tool to support the accuracy of field studies involving taxa that are diverse and difficult to identify. The taxonomy of rays has received ...
Two of the most abundant proteins found in the nematocysts of the box jellyfish Chironex fleckeri have been identified as C. fleckeri toxin-1 (CfFX- 1) and toxin-2 (CfTX-2). The molecular masses of CfTX-1 and CfTX-2, as ...
Current policy and management for marine water quality in the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) focusses on sediment, nutrients and PSII herbicides. While other so-called emerging contaminants are known to be present in the marine ...
The successful management of ecosystems depends on early detection of change and identification of factors causing such change. Determination of change and causality in ecosystems is difficult, both philosophically and ...
Sediment and filamentous algae were collected from territories of the detritivorous blenny, Salarias patzneri, to identify sources of dietary detritus. Samples were collected during summer and winter and analysed for fatty ...
The potential of corals to associate with more temperature-tolerant strains of algae (zooxanthellae, Symbiodinium) can have important implications for the future of coral reefs in an era of global climate change. In this ...
The whale shark (Rhincodon typus) is an iconic and endangered species with a broad distribution spanning warm-temperate and tropical oceans. Effective conservation management of the species requires an understanding of the ...