Australia’s ratification and subsequent implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea has given the government responsibility for the management of a marine environment double the size of the country’s land mass. Such a management initiative must take into account the economic, social and environmental needs of marine stakeholders, as well as incorporating international ...

This paper reviews the potential of marine fungi in biotechnology. The unique physico-chemical properties of the marine environment are likely to have conferred marine fungi with special physiological adaptations that could be exploited in biotechnology. The emphasis of this review is on marine fungi from a few unique ecological habitats and their potential in biotechnological applications. The...

Mutagenic pollution of environment is a global and important problem. This includes marine environment. Although many mutagenicity assays have been developed, there are specific problems with testing marine water and sediments for mutagenic contamination. One of them is the fact that most of genetically modified strains used in commonly available microbiological mutagenicity assays, like Escher...

The marine bacterium Saccharophagus degradans strain 2-40 (Sde 2-40) is emerging as a vanguard of a recently discovered group of marine and estuarine bacteria that recycles complex polysaccharides. We report its complete genome sequence, analysis of which identifies an unusually large number of enzymes that degrade >10 complex polysaccharides. Not only is this an extraordinary range of cataboli...

1 Institute of Ocean and Earth Sciences, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia E-mail: [email protected] 2 Department of Geography and Environment, Romberg Tiburon Center for Environmental Studies, San Francisco State University, Tiburon, CA 94920, USA 3 Southern Marine and Coastal Resources Research Center, Department of Marine and Coastal Resources, Songkhla 90100, Tha...

In 1872, the headwaters of the Yellowstone River and the surrounding forests, canyons and geyser basins were designated the world’s first national park. Since then, most nations of the world, whatever their size, have protected important biological, scenic, geological and historic places. That decision to make Yellowstone a national park set in motion a series of events with unforeseen but fort...

statistical studies on palynology contents of late cretaceous to paleocene age gurpi formation in a surface section in zagros basin,sw iran indicate changes in abundance, species diversity, ratio of spiniferites to cyclonephelium (s/c), palynological marine index(pmi) values and organic facies. these palynological variations clearly reflect fluctuations in relative sea-level and depositionalenv...