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Many deep-sea hydrothermal vent systems are regularly impacted by volcanic eruptions, leaving fresh basalt where abundant animal and microbial communities once thrived. After an eruption, microbial biofilms are often the first visible evidence of biotic re-colonization. The present study is the first ...
Environmental diversity surveys are crucial for the bioassessment of anthropogenic impacts on marine ecosystems. Traditional benthic monitoring relying on morphotaxonomic inventories of macrofaunal communities is expensive, time-consuming and expertise-demanding. High-throughput sequencing of environmental ...
Outbreaks of the corallivorous crown-of-thorns seastar Acanthaster planci (COTS) represent one of the greatest disturbances to coral reef ecosystems in the Indo-Pacific, affecting not only coral reefs but also the coastal communities which rely on their resources. While injection approaches are increasingly ...
Marine habitats containing complex physical structure (e.g., crevices) can provide shelter from predation for benthic invertebrates. To examine effects of natural and artificial structure on the abundance of intertidal juvenile crabs, 2 experiments were conducted in Kingston Bay, Massachusetts, USA, ...
Selenoprotein P (SEPP1) distributes selenium (Se) throughout the body via the circulatory system. For vertebrates, the Se content of SEPP1 varies from 7 to 18 Se atoms depending on the species, but the reason for this variation remains unclear. Herein we provide evidence that vertebrate SEPP1 Sec content ...
Background With low and markedly seasonal malaria transmission, increasingly sensitive tools for better stratifying the risk of infection and targeting control interventions are needed. A cross-sectional survey to characterize the current malaria transmission patterns, identify hotspots, and detect ...
We employ partial integro-differential equations to model trophic interaction in a spatially extended heterogeneous environment. Compared to classical reaction-diffusion models, this framework allows us to more realistically describe the situation where movement of individuals occurs on a faster time ...
In digital painting software, layers organize paintings. However, layers are not explicitly represented, transmitted, or published with the final digital painting. We propose a technique to decompose a digital painting into layers. In our decomposition, each layer represents a coat of paint of a single ...
An aquarium system for aquatic organisms capable of easily performing maintenance of a purifying device and a circulation pump, etc., and downsizing a purifying zone is provided. The system of the present invention includes an aquarium 1, a partition wall 2 dividing the aquarium into a nurturing zone ...
The present invention refers to a process for reducing the amount of undesired components in an oil composition, particularly in an oil composition comprising omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids. The process of the present invention provides efficient removal of undesired water-soluble (hydrophilic) ...
The invention relates to a fishing reel, especially for fly fishing, comprising a spool (2) the annular or tubular hub part (3) (reel core) of which is removably received on a shaft (4). The removable shaft is axially immobilized in the hub part by means of at least one detachable snap-in connection ...
The present innovation refers to a coupling means (1) comprising at least one loop formation (2) attached to a weight (4), which, when fishing, clamps onto a fishing line (5) in a distance from a bait (6) by the holding means (3), said fishing line (5) is tensioned from both directions of the weight ...
The invention relates to a biodegradable polyester film, comprising: i) 80 to 95 wgt.-%, based on the total weight of the components i to ii, of a biodegradable polyester based on aliphatic and aromatic dicarboxylic acids and an aliphatic dihydroxy compound; ii) 5 to 20 wgt.-%, based on the total weight ...
The invention concerns a device (100) for transmitting data comprising a satellite transmitter (1) installed on a transport means (10) likely to transport goods and a base (20), said transmitter (1) being capable of transmitting geolocation data from this transport means (10) to the base (20) via a ...
A method for packaging a product (3), in particular a food product, under a protective atmosphere, of the type in which: - the product is positioned in a package; a protective atmosphere is introduced into the package; the packaging (4) is sealed; characterized in that the protective atmosphere is a ...
The invention provides methods for treating uncooked meat to improve the colour stability and/or for reducing the onset of rancidity. The methods comprise contacting the uncooked meat with a composition comprising succinate and one or more of glutamate, malate, citrate, isocitrate, aconitate and pyruvate ...
Using measurements of valve activity (i.e., the distance between the two valves) in populations of bivalves under natural environmental conditions (16 oysters in the Bay of Arcachon, France, in 2007, 2013, and 2014), an algorithm for an automatic detection of the spawning period of oysters is proposed ...
Bivalve molluscs such as Perna perna display temporal cycles of reproduction that result from the complex interplay between endogenous and exogenous signals. The monoamines serotonin, dopamine and noradrenaline represent possible endocrine and neuronal links between these signals allowing the molluscs ...
A comparison of ancient DNA (single-nucleotide polymorphisms) and carbon and nitrogen stable isotope evidence suggests that stored cod provisions recovered from the wreck of the Tudor warship Mary Rose, which sank in the Solent, southern England, in 1545, had been caught in northern and transatlantic ...
Excess risk of leukemia and brain tumors after CT scans in children has been reported. We performed dicentric chromosome assay (DCAs) before and after CT scan to assess effects of low-dose ionizing radiation on chromosomes. Peripheral blood (PB) lymphocytes were collected from 10 patients before and ...