Electrophoretic Identification of Puffers

Electrophoretic identification of whitebait species

The shortjawed (SJ) kokopu (Galaxias postvectis ) is rare and listed as category A conservation status by DOC and as indeterminate (status not resolved) by IUCN. It may be in decline given that there is substantial habitat loss and modification. If existence of SJ kokopu is to be maintained, information regarding its presence within whitebait runs both in terms of timing and geography, is essen...

Species Identification of Meat by Electrophoretic Methods

Electrophoretic methods can be used to identify meat of various animal species. The protein electrophoresis, especially the IEF of the sarcoplasmic proteins, is a wellestablished technique for species identification of raw fish and is used in the control of seafood authenticity. However, in the case of the analysis of heat-processed fish, the method is applicable only to those species which pos...

Identification of electrophoretic proteins pattern of Fusaium verticillioides isolates from maize by SDS-PAGE.

Caving for “Pink Puffers” and “Blue Bloaters”

The terms “Pink Puffers” and “Blue Bloaters” have been around for many years. They are used in a colloquial sense by speleologists to describe how cavers react to an elevated concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) and reduced oxygen (O2) in a cave’s “foul air” atmosphere. Foul air is only found in a small number of Australian caves and is defined as having a noticeable abnormal physiological eff...

Electrophoretic Deposition of Hydroxyapatite

     The purpose of this study was to investigate the deposition of the hydroxyapatite (HA) coating via the electrophoresis procedure. The HA deposition was performed in an ethanol, methanol, acetone and isopropanol suspension. Methanol was found to be the best deposition media. Among the different environmental conditions, including the encapsulation of the samples under two vacuum types of pr...