spatial measurements of conductivity, temperature and depth were used to study salinity variations along the principal channels of the tidal hypersaline creek network in the vicinity of bushehr port, persian gulf during three 25- tidal cycles in both warm and cold months. salinity variations and tidal fluctuations were out of phase throughout the short inverse estuary. the salinity values insid...

Thalassia testudinum (turtle grass) is the dominant and climax-successional seagrass species in the subtropical/tropical Atlantic and Caribbean region. Two die-offs of T. testudinum in Florida Bay, United States have raised concerns regarding the resilience of this species to environmental disturbances. Seedlings are important in recovery of T. testudinum, following disturbance events. Leaf spe...

Examination of piston cores and, particularly, sediments collected by the Deep Sea Drilling Project has shown that authigenic dolomite occurs in a wide range of sedimentary associations. While the trace to a small percentage of dolomite often encountered in pelagic carbonate sequences may be a result of authigenesis under "normal" deep-sea conditions, the few studies to date seem to indicate th...

Abstract Polyp bailout is a drastic response to acute stress where coral coloniality breaks down and polyps detach. We induced polyp in Pocillopora acuta with heat tested for differential gene expression using RNAseq qPCR assay. Furthermore, we hypersalinity compared the results identify stressor-independent signals pathways active during bailout. Both stressors led onset of detachment vital po...

A fundamental question in biology is how an organism's morphology and physiology are shaped by its environment. Here, we evaluate the effects of a hypersaline environment on the morphology and physiology of a population of livebearing fish in the genus Limia (Poeciliidae). We sampled from two populations of Limia perugiae (one freshwater and one hypersaline) in the southwest Dominican Republic....

Salinity stress is one of the marked influencing factors on ecophysiology aquaculture and considered an important reason for retreat fish industry. The current study endeavor to elucidate molecular mechanisms that underlie response salinity in common carp. Fish (Average weight 5 ± 2 g) were randomly distributed into two groups; 1 st a control was exposed tap water (0.2 ppt salinity) nd treated ...

Desalination brines from direct seawater intake that get discharged to coastal areas may produce stress responses on benthic marine communities, mostly due its excess salinity, and especially sessile organisms; in this context, macroalgae have been understudied desalination ecotoxicological investigations. In study, we assessed the short- long-term cellular tolerance two brown species of genus ...