Despite their ubiquity and importance to intertidal ecosystems, information is currently lacking regarding the genetic diversity of trematode parasites within coastal organisms and the distribution of their genetic variation among intertidal habitats. In this study, we quantiWed the clonal diversity of the coastal marine trematode Maritrema novaezealandensis within Zeacumantus subcarinatus snai...

Decapod community inhabiting the rocky littoral of eight bays from Socorro island, Revillagigedo Archipelago, was studied during March 1992. Samples were collected from one-square meter plots placed following transects drawn perpendicularly to the shoreline along the intertidal zone. Species richness and abundance were determined in each bay, as well as the similarity between bays using Morisit...

Accurate location tracking is One of the major issues in Wireless Body Area Sensor Networks (WBANs). There are several techniques for indoor and outdoor environments to locate a person. This paper compares the performance of indoor localization schemes for optimal placement of wireless sensors in an area where, location tracking in required. In this paper, we investigate the performance of Part...

Recruitment, abundance (percentage cover, density) and diversity (H9) of a benthic subtidal community were examined in relation to large scale ( > 0.15 km) shoreline configuration in the St. Lawrence Estuary (Canada). Settlement panels were moored inside and outside bays of different sizes (0.15, 1.5, 4 and 7 km aperture) and along a portion of straight ( ̄ 12 km) coast. Only the largest bay wa...

Proteins that improperly mature in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) are dislocated to the cytoplasm for proteasome-mediated destruction. A recent study provides insight into the incompletely understood processes for selection and targeting of aberrant proteins for ER-associated protein degradation. The identification of the ER chaperones GRP94 and BiP as binding partners for the mannose-binding p...

The lionfish Pterois volitans is an invasive species throughout the Western Atlantic that disturbs functioning of local ecosystems such as coral reefs via fast and intense consumption of small fish and invertebrates. In 2009, lionfish populated the bays of Tayrona National Natural Park (TNNP), a biodiversity hotspot in the Colombian Caribbean that is strongly influenced by changing environmenta...

The blue crab, Callinectes sapidus, is a valuable resource in the Coastal Bays, supporting a steady commercial and recreational fishery. Surveys suggest that blue crab abundance fluctuates without an apparent trend, yet there is still a successful annual commercial fishery that even attracts crabbers from the Chesapeake Bay. Since 1990, commercial landings for crabs have averaged from 0.5 to 1....

Many popular models conceptualize working memory as consisting of three or four discrete slots or bins. This conceptualization, however, has been seemingly refuted by Bays and Husain (2009), who reported perfect performance on a working memory task with a large number of very simple items. We show, however, that this perfect-performance result likely reflects a design flaw rather than mnemonic ...

A system of barrier islands and back-barrier bays occurs along southern Long Island, New York, and in many coastal areas worldwide. Characterizing the bay physical response to water level fluctuations is needed to understand flooding during extreme events and evaluate their relation to geomorphological changes. Offshore sea level is one of the main drivers of water level fluctuations in semienc...

  Using a semi-balloon otter trawl, crab fisheries in the main bays of Guangdong Province, China, were carried out seasonally . A total of 70 species were found, all belonging to the South China Sea Faunal sub region in the tropical India-West-Pacific Faunal Region. The clustering and nMDS ordination analysis revealed the existence of three groups. Group 1 included Hailing Bay and four bays to ...