The rapid growth in demand for peptide drugs is actualizing the search new natural and economically viable sources of raw materials. wide variety biologically active compounds, including nature, inherent marine aquatic organisms allows us to consider their promising material resource. However, use objects as a source production target molecules requires some optimization existing methodological...

Organisms of the planktonic food web convey essential nutrients as well as contaminants to animals at higher trophic levels. We measured concentrations of methyl mercury (MeHg) and essential fatty acids (EFAs, key nutrients for aquatic food webs) in four size categories of planktonic organisms - seston (10-64 microm), micro-(100-200 microm), meso-(200-500 microm), and macrozooplankton (>500 mic...