European hake (Merluccius merluccius) is a commercially important resource in Iberian Atlantic waters. Despite the recovery plan implemented 2006 and multiannual management for western waters, fishing mortality still higher than that corresponding to maximum sustainable yield southern stock. The biological processes underlying dynamics of this stock its life history traits are essential assessi...

In this paper we argue that two important causes of welfare losses in oligopolistic markets have been neglected. We show that in models where location is endogenous, welfare losses arising from wrong locations or from lack of market coverage may be substantial despite firms competing in prices. In contrast, welfare losses arising from quality choice are modest but they might vary discontinuousl...

Genyatremus luteus’ reproductive dynamics were investigated by examining the gonadal first maturation length (L50) and period (gonadosomatic index, GSI, relative condition factor, Kr) in relation to environmental factor rainfall. Sampling was conducted monthly from April 2016 2017, five areas (A1 A5) using gill nets fixed traps. The sex ratio distribution of 331 specimens captured (174 females,...

The rigor to post-rigor transition in myosin, a consequence of ATP binding, plays an essential role in the Lymn-Taylor functional cycle because it results in the dissociation of the actomyosin complex after the powerstroke. On the basis of the X-ray structures of myosin V, we have developed a new normal mode superposition model for the transition path between the two states. Rigid-body motions ...

Theoretical and experimental work suggests that time to sex change in sequential hermaphrodites may be strongly linked to local population traits and the social environment of the individuals. We evaluated social control and temporal and spatial plasticity in the sex-change response of the protandric marine gastropod Crepidula coquimbensis, which inhabits the empty shells of other gastropods an...

The yellow snapper, Lutjanus argentiventris, is a commercial species along the Pacific coast, yet few studies have been carried out on its reproductive biology. Monthly samplings of the artisanal fishery off the coast of Jalisco, Mexico, were made from 1998 to 2008. Mean total length and weight of analyzed specimens were 32.6 cm (±0.13) and 567.3 g (±9.15), respectively. A total of 945 females ...

In this work, we report the expression and secretion of the leaderless two-peptide (EntL50A and EntL50B) bacteriocin enterocin L50 from Enterococcus faecium L50 by the methylotrophic yeast Pichia pastoris X-33. The bacteriocin structural genes entL50A and entL50B were fused to the Saccharomyces cerevisiae gene region encoding the mating pheromone alpha-factor 1 secretion signal (MFalpha1(s)) an...

Size at 50% maturity (l50%) is commonly evaluated for wild populations as a point of biological reference (see Table 1). To estimate l50%, a sample of organisms known to have just reached sexual maturity could be available and their arithmetic mean size can be used as an estimator. However, the sample needed to obtain such a designbased estimator (Smith, 1990) for wild populations might be too ...

The reproductive biology of albacore tuna, Thunnus alalunga, in the western Indian Ocean was examined through analysis of the sex ratio, spawning season, length-at-maturity (L50), spawning frequency and fecundity. From 2013 to 2015, a total of 923 female and 867 male albacore were sampled. A bias in sex ratio was found in favor of females with fork length (LF) < 100 cm. Using histological analy...

We present a computer simulation study of a binary mixture of hard spherocylinders with different diameters (D1,D2) and the same lengths (L15L25L). We first study a mixture of spherocylinders with lengths L 515D2 and D150, which can be regarded as a mixture of rodlike colloids and ideal needles. We find clearly an entropy-driven isotropic-isotropic (I-I) demixing transition in this mixture. In ...