The spatial learning skills of high and low stress juvenile mulloway (Argyrosomus japonicus) were tested in a dichotomous choice apparatus. Groups of fish were formed based on background blood cortisol levels and required to learn the location of a food reward hidden in one of two compartments. Low stress fish characterised by low background levels of the stress hormone cortisol had higher acti...

M. ANNE CROWTHER and BRENDA WHITE, On soul and conscience: the medical expert and crime. 150 years offorensic medicine in Glasgow, Aberdeen University Press, 1988, 8vo, pp. xviii, 169, illus., £14.50, £7.95, (paperback). Though Edinburgh was, albeit most reluctantly, the first Scottish (or, indeed, British) university to recognize medical jurisprudence as an academic subject, with the establish...

Macrofungi have been previously studied for their nutritional value and medicinal properties. However, despite wild mushrooms being a great source of beneficial bioactive compounds, the literature exploring biotechnological application as nutraceuticals, cosmeceuticals nutricosmetics is scarce. In this work, species Butyriboletus regius, Ganoderma lucidum, Inonotus hispidus, Lanmaoa fragrans, P...

Nocardiosis caused by Nocardia seriolae is one of the major threats in the aquaculture of Seriola species (yellowtail; S. quinqueradiata, amberjack; S. dumerili and kingfish; S. lalandi) in Japan. Here, we report the complete nucleotide genome sequence of N. seriolae UTF1, isolated from a cultured yellowtail. The genome is a circular chromosome of 8,121,733 bp with a G+C content of 68.1% that e...

Swimming exercise at optimal speed may optimize growth performance of yellowtail kingfish in a recirculating aquaculture system. Therefore, optimal swimming speeds (U opt in m s(-1) or body lengths s(-1), BL s(-1)) were assessed and then applied to determine the effects of long-term forced and sustained swimming at U opt on growth performance of juvenile yellowtail kingfish. U opt was quantifie...

WBN/Kob-Lepr(fa) (fa/fa) rats have been identified as a new animal model of type 2 diabetes (T2DM), as they are characterized by impaired pancreatic insulin secretion and severe insulin resistance. Our previous study demonstrated impaired insulin secretion and its involvement in hyperglycemia in fa/fa rats. The present study was aimed at elucidating the role of insulin resistance in the develop...