The global aquatic pet trade encompasses a wide diversity of freshwater and marine organisms. While relying on a continual supply of healthy, vibrant aquatic animals, few sustainability initiatives exist within this sector. Public aquariums overlap this industry by acquiring many of the same species through the same sources. End users are also similar, as many aquarium visitors are home aquaris...

Marine organisms have developed a wide variety of protective strategies to thrive in their native environments. These biological materials, although formed from simple biopolymer and biomineral constituents, take on many intricate and effective designs. The specific environmental conditions that shape all marine organisms have helped modify these materials into their current forms: complete hyd...

Escaped transgenic organisms (GMO's) may threaten the populations of their wild relatives if able to hybridize with each other. The introgression of a growth enhancement transgene into a wild Atlantic salmon population may be affected by the transgene's effects not only on fitness parameters, but also on mating behaviour. Large anadromous GMO males are most preferred in mating, but a transgene ...

Biofouling is detrimental to the hydrodynamic performance of ships. In spite of advances in hull coating technology, a ship must usually undergo underwater hull cleaning to remove biofouling during her in-service time. However, some cleaning practices may also lead to decreased lifetime of the fouling-control coating. Therefore, cleaning forces should be minimized, according to the adhesion str...

patients and methods: all samples sent to the lab were routinely processed according to standard microbiological procedures and the cultures yielding growth of cons were selected for the study. all samples containing cons collected over a 2 year-period, were included irrespective of patients' age and gender. the antibiogram of the organisms was recorded according to clsi guidelines and the rati...

The objective of the work was to study the efficacy of carrot seed treatment with antagonistic microorganisms Clonostachys rosea, C. solani, and grapefruit extract (Biosept 33 SLTM). Seeds were artificially inoculated with Alternaria radicina spores prior to treatment. The presence of fungi, seed germination and vigour were determined in laboratory tests, whereas seedling emergence and health w...

background: anti-angiogenic therapy is a crucial step in cancer treatment. the discovery of new anti-angiogenic compounds from marine organisms has become an attractive concept in anti-cancer therapy. because little data correlated to the pro- and anti-angiogenic efficacies of ophiuroidea, which include brittle star, the current study was designed to explore the anti-angiogenic potential of bri...