We present the description in central charge superspace of N = 4 supergravity with antisymmetric tensor coupled to an arbitrary number of abelian vector multiplets. All the gauge vectors of the coupled system are treated on the same footing as gauge fields corresponding to translations along additional bosonic coordinates. It is the geometry of the antisymmetric tensor which singles out which c...

Bacteria are remarkably associated with the growth of green algae Tetraselmis which used as a feed source in aquaculture, but Tetraselmis-associated bacterial community is characterized insufficiently. Here, first step towards characterization bacteria, we investigated composition free-living (FLB) and particle-associated (PAB) bacteria each phase (lag, exponential, stationary, death) suecica P...

The present work reports the use of living cells of the marine microalga Tetraselmis suecica for the biosorption of cadmium ions. For a better understanding of the biosorption characteristics, three fractions of removed cadmium (total, bioadsorbed and intracellular) were measured in the cells after 24 and 72 h of exposure to different initial cadmium concentrations (0.6-45 mg L(-1)). Both the L...

We developed a method to extract environmental DNA and amplify target portions of the internal transcribed spacer region (ITS) of the ribosomal gene (ITS1-5.8S-ITS2) from individual species of oligotrich and choreotrich ciliate microzooplankton. To date, we have laband field-tested primers specific to the tintinnid Favella ehrenbergii, the oligotrich Laboea strobila, and the choreotrich Strombi...