the major sources of pahs are anthropogenic. these may be generated by pyrolytic and petrogenic processes. low molecular weight pahs come into the aquatic system through the accidentally leakage of oil spills. incomplete combustion at high temperature will release high molecular weight pahs by products of pyrolytic processes. the methods for assigning sources of pahs include paired isomeric rat...

By combining the spatio-temporal distribution of fish abundance and their size structure, and a detailed lifetime Sr/Ca ratio analysis in their otoliths, this study delineates the estuarine use and the movement patterns of seven sympatrical occurring adult mullets in the Tatu Creek estuary, central western Taiwan. In the estuaryMugil cephalus are the most dominant species, whereas Liza subvirid...

Twenty-four polymorphic microsatellite loci were isolated and characterized for Liza affinis using a (GT)13-enriched genomic library. The number of alleles per locus ranged from 3 to 9, with a mean number of 6.250. The observed and expected heterozygosities ranged from 0.417 to 1.000 and from 0.550 to 0.861, with an average of 0.859 and 0.779, respectively. Deviation from Hardy-Weinberg proport...

European pilchard (Sardina pilchardus, Walbaum, 1792), Golden grey mullet (Liza aurata, Risso 1810), and Common sole (Solea solea, Quensel, 1806) are the commercially important fish species caught by trawl purse seine in Mersin Bay, Mediterranean. This study was aimed to investigate proximate compositions, carbohydrate levels, energy contents, fatty acid profiles, lipid quality indexes of pilch...

The recruitment of leaping grey mullet, Liza saliens juveniles in the Neretva River estuary (middle eastern Adriatic Sea, Croatia) started in July, was highest in August, decreased in September, and was unobserved later. The juveniles firstly occupied mouths of rivers and channels and then started migrating to more freshwater habitats. By feeding investigation, the harpacticoid copepods were th...

We evaluated the survival of Streptococcus agalactiae from naturally infected wild mullet (Liza klunzingeri) and experimentally infected Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) frozen at 20 and 70 jC, respectively, for an extended period of time. The brain, eye, head kidney, and intestine of individually frozen wild mullet (N = 22), culture positive for S. agalactiae from fresh tissues following a...