Xuetong Xie, Qiming Zeng , Weidong Hu , Wenxian Yu, Kehai Chen , Yu Fang 1 College of Electric Science and Egineering, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, P. R. China 2 Institute of Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System, Peking University, Beijing, P. R. China 3 South China Sea Institute of Oceanography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, P. R. China E-mail: xie...

Cooliatin, an unprecedented dioxocyclononane, was isolated from the dinoflagellate Coolia monotis from South China Sea. Its structure was identified on the basis of spectroscopic evidence.

The population genetic structure and historical demography of the flathead mullet Mugil cephalus were investigated using the mtDNA control region (CR) sequences (909-1015 bp) of 126 individuals collected from seven locations in the north-west Pacific between 2005 and 2007. Haplotype diversity (h = 0.9333-1.000) and nucleotide diversity (pi = 0.0046-0.1467) varied greatly among the sampling loca...

[1] The Princeton Ocean Model is used to study the circulation in the South China Sea (SCS) and its seasonal transition. Kuroshio enters (leaves) the SCS through the southern (northern) portion of the Luzon Strait. The annually averaged net volume flux through the Luzon Strait is 2 Sv into the SCS with seasonal reversals. The inflow season is from May to January with the maximum intrusion of Ku...

[1] A statistical relationship between spring Arctic sea ice concentration (SIC) and Chinese summer rainfall is identified using singular value decomposition (SVD). Results show that decreased (increased) spring SIC in the Arctic Ocean and the Greenland Sea corresponds to increased (decreased) summer rainfall in northeast China and central China between the Yangtze River and the Yellow River (2...

Kelly Cleland1,*, Haoping Zhu2, Norman Goldstuck3, Linan Cheng4, and James Trussell1,5 Office of Population Research, Princeton University, 218 Wallace Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA Minhang Central Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai 201100, People’s Republic of China Reproduction Research South Africa, St John’s Rd, Sea Point, Cape Town 8005, South Africa Shanghai Institute of Pl...

BACKGROUND White syndrome, a term for scleractinian coral disease with progressive tissue loss, is known to cause depressed growth and increased morality of coral reefs in the major oceans around the world, and the occurrence of this disease has been frequently reported in the past few decades. Investigations during April to September in both 2010 and 2011 identified widespread Porites andrewsi...

Polylabris lingaoensis sp. n. is described from the gills of the bald glassy, Ambassis gymnocephalus (Chandidae), from the Gulf of Tonkin (South China Sea), near Lingao, Hainan Province, China. The new species is characterized by a midventral vaginal pore, comparatively few (5-7) testes, and 2 parallel rows each comprised of 30-43 microcotylid clamps in the haptor. Polylabris lingaoensis is the...

  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 ...