BACKGROUND Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common serious cardiac arrhythmia, and its prevalence is expected to increase. There is lack of data about patient characteristics, practice patterns, and outcomes of AF in the Arab Middle East. METHODS AND RESULTS The Gulf Survey of Atrial Fibrillation Events (Gulf SAFE) is a prospective, observational registry of patients with AF with a 12-mon...

A RECENT ISSUE of Systematic Zoology (1960, vol. 9, nos. 3, 4 ) was ' devoted entirely to a symposium entitled "The Biogeography of Baja California and Adjacent Seas." One recurring theme was the affinity between forms occurring on the Pacific Coast in the Californian province (Hubbs, 1960: 134), and those in the northern part of the Gulf of California. Between these areas, in the main part of ...

Citation: Onda DFL, Medrinal E, Comeau AM, Thaler M, Babin M and Lovejoy C (2017) Seasonal and Interannual Changes in Ciliate and Dinoflagellate Species Assemblages in the Arctic Ocean (Amundsen Gulf, Beaufort Sea, Canada). Front. Mar. Sci. 4:16. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2017.00016 Seasonal and Interannual Changes in Ciliate and Dinoflagellate Species Assemblages in the Arctic Ocean (Amundsen Gulf, B...

“This research was made possible in part by a grant from The Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (Grant No. SA12-03/GoMRI-003), and in part by grants from NSF (Grant No. CBET-1341901) and NIH (Grant No. 1-R21-EB008844-01). Data are publicly available through the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative Information & Data Cooperative (GRIIDC) at https://data.gulfresearchinitiative.org (doi:10.7266/N744...

This report describes the pattern of tourism/recreational travel in the area of the Texas Gulf Coast. An examination is made of the tourism resources that are available along the Texas Gulf Coast. The patterns of highway development in the region are examined. The effectiveness of the highway network in meeting the demands of the tourism industry is evaluated.

STOCK DEFINITION AND GEOGRAPHIC RANGE Risso's dolphins are distributed worldwide in tropical and temperate seas, and in the Northwest Atlantic occur from Florida to eastern Newfoundland (Leatherwood et al. 1976; Baird and Stacey 1990). Off the northeast U.S. coast, Risso's dolphins are distributed along the continental shelf edge from Cape Hatteras northward to Georges Bank during spring, summe...

BACKGROUND The BP oil spill of 2010 resulted in contamination of one of the most productive fisheries in the United States by polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). PAHs, which can accumulate in seafood, are known carcinogens and developmental toxicants. In response to the oil spill, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) developed risk criteria and established thresholds for allowable l...

Very little information is available regarding marine free-living flatworms not only from Iran, but throughout the countries surrounding the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. The present study first introduces a new euryleptid species, and then reports four pseudocerotid polyclads which inhabit Iranian shallow rocky shores of the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. Maritigrella makranica sp. no...

Two new species of zooplanktivorous haplochromine cichlids from Lake Victoria, Tanzania, are described and illustrated. These species closely resemble each other. Their affinities to other zooplanktivorous haplochromines from Lake Victoria are discussed. Haplochromis argens sp. n., which featured under nicknames (mainly Haplochromis "argens") in more than 50 papers, was caught both in the Mwanz...