Lightsticks baits are discharged into the ocean after their use in longline fishing. The traditional Brazilian community of Costa dos Coqueiros, Bahia, uses lightsticks as a medicine for rheumatism, vitiligo, and mycoses. It may affect marine life when its content leak ocean. This study assessed toxicity identification evaluation (TIE) constituents on mysids Promysis atlantica. internal solutio...

Arylsulfatases exhibit great potential in industry for desulfation applications, but less is known about the metallo-β-lactamase (MBL) fold arylsulfatases. To learn more them, an MBL arylsulfatase from Pseudoalteromonas atlantica T6c (PaAst) was identified and characterized, its structure elaborated this study. PaAst sequence analyzed, heterologously expressed E. coli, purified by Ni2+-NTA resi...

Le cèdre de l'Atlas (Cedrus atlantica (Endl.) G. Manetti ex Carrière) est une espèce endémique des montagnes du Maroc et l’Algérie. Il constitue ressource vitale pour les populations d’intérêt bioécologique socio-économique considérable. Cette naturelle malheureusement menacée par plusieurs facteurs dépérissement l’évolution rapide climat vers la sécheresse, ce qui le pousse à modifier sa morph...

background: testosterone level in men decreases with aging (andropause) and androgen deficiency is responsible for a variety of behavioral symptoms such as anxiety. the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of pistacia atlantica (bane) fruit extract on anxiety-like behavior in intact and gonadectomized rats. materials and methods: in this study, adult male rats were divided into two g...

Deep-sea bivalves of the Xylophagaidae, a poorly known group, are obligate wood-borers. Deployment of wood in three submarine canyons off the Iberian coast, the Blanes and La Fonera Canyons (Mediterranean Sea) and the Avilés Canyon (Cantabric Sea, Bay of Biscay), lead to the discovery of four xylophagaid species in our samples. Xylophaga dorsalis (the dominant species), X. atlantica, X. cf. ans...