This study analyzed eight cooked species of fish and one species of shrimps (grilled, curried, fried and cooked in rice) commonly consumed in Bahrain for their proximate, mineral and heavy metal content. The results reveled that the protein content was in the range of 22.8-29.2 g/100 g, while the fat content was between 2.9-11.9 g/100 g. The energy content was the highest in the fried Scomberom...

A mid-water trawl survey conducted between depths of 1000 and 3000 m in the eastern Gulf of Mexico found 54% of the organisms collected were gonostomatid fishes. Lophogastrids within the family Eucopiidae were also common (17.3%), as were decapod shrimps within the families Oplophoridae and Benthesicymidae (9.9 and 7.1% respectively). We examined the gut contents of 14 prominent species from th...

White spot disease (WSD) which is caused by white spot syndrome virus (WSSV) creates severe epizootics in captured and cultured black tiger shrimp, resulting a huge loss in the economic output of the aquaculture industry worldwide. Performing selective breeding using DNA markers would prove to be a potential cost effective strategy for long term disease control in shrimps. In the present invest...

The toxicity and mutagenic potential of most African plants implicated in the management of cancer have not been investigated. The ethanolic extracts of selected Nigerian plants were subsequently studied using the brine shrimp lethality tests, inhibition of telomerase activity and induction of chromosomal aberrations in vivo in rat lymphocytes. Morinda lucida root bark, Nymphaea lotus whole pla...

Catches and exports of skate Rioraja agassizii place this species as "vulnerable to extinction" on the IUCN Red List; therefore, biological and ecological knowledge becomes an important instrument for its conservation control. This study described and quantified the diet composition of R. agassizii by means of stomach analysis contents in the periods 2005-2006 and 2012-2013. We analyzed and qua...

Sexual dimorphism is typically a result of strong sexual selection on male traits used in male-male competition and subsequent female choice. However, in social species where reproduction is monopolized by one or a few individuals in a group, selection on secondary sexual characteristics may be strong in both sexes. Indeed, sexual dimorphism is reduced in many cooperatively breeding vertebrates...

Penaeoidea is a diverse group of economically important marine shrimps. Attention to the evolutionary history of the penaeoids has been raised since studies using mitochondrial DNA markers and sperm ultrastructure contradict classification of the penaeoid families based on morphology and hence challenge the long standing taxonomy of this superfamily. In this study, DNA sequences of two nuclear ...

Potamotrygonid stingrays are restricted to Neotropical rivers and information on their diet remains scarce. Thus, the prey composition of four freshwater stingray species from the middle Negro River was studied using stomach contents analysis: Potamotrygon motoro (n=40), Potamotrygon orbignyi (n=27), Potamotrygon sp. “cururu” (n=26), and Paratrygon aiereba (n=34). Prey items were identified up ...

Shrimps is one of the main export commodities country and earns about more than 40 crores 47 lac US $in 2017. Black Tiger (BT) shrimp alone contributes 67 % to total per year. Aquaculture shrimps are being processed in land-based processing plant while wild catch onboard (fishing vessels) Bay Bengal. A study was conducted compare yield economic loss/gain headless shell-on (HLSO) during by labor...

The purpose of the study was to examine prevalence Escherichia coli in shrimps and mussels, determine distribution β-lactam, aminoglycoside, quinolone, multi-drug resistance phenotypically genotypically E. isolates obtained from mussels Istanbul. Faecal samples were collected (n = 96) Marmara Sea coastline fish markets For detection antibiotic susceptibilities, seven groups used. β-lactam...