Cell surface carbohydrates play important roles in cell recognition mechanisms. Recently, we provided evidence that particle selection by suspension-feeding bivalves can be mediated by interactions between carbohydrates associated with the particle surface and lectins present in mucus covering bivalve feeding organs. In this study, we used lectins tagged with fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC) t...

The relatively short life cycles of harpacticoid copepods makes them appropriate animals for use in tests that rapidly assess the acute, sublethal, or chronic effects of sediment contaminants. In this study, four harpacticoid copepod species (Nitocra spinipes, Tisbe tenuimana, Robertgurneya hopkinsi, and Halectinosoma sp.) were isolated from clean marine sediments, and procedures for laboratory...

Soybean meal has been used in many commercial diets for farm fish; despite this component inducing intestinal inflammation. On the other hand, microalgae have increasingly been used as dietary supplements in fish feed. Nevertheless, the vast quantity of microalgae species means that many remain under- or unstudied, thus limiting wide scale commercial application. In this work, we evaluated the ...

Abstract Marine microalgae are a promising sustainable source of lipids, omega-3 fatty acids, and carbohydrates. Selected species belonging to the Bacillariophyceae, Haptophyceae, Eustigmatophyceae, Prasinophyceae were characterised for cellular content carbon nitrogen, production yields total carbohydrates, ?-glucans. Carbon nitrogen showed hyperbolic decrease with increasing cell numbers Chae...

Microalgae are proposed to have powerful applications for human health in the pharmaceutical and food industries. Tetraselmis species (sp.), which green microalgae, were identified as a source of broad-spectrum health-promoting biological activities. However, bioactivity these has not been elucidated. We aimed confirm antioxidant, antiviral, anti-inflammatory effects sp. extract (TEE). TEE show...

We conducted two laboratory experiments to evaluate the dietary effects of phytoplankton and zooplankton on larval survival, duration growth amphidromous atyid shrimp Atyopsis spinipes. In first experiment, commercially preserved or cultured Tetraselmis sp. rotifers were used rear larvae. second feed larvae for 17 days after hatching, which effect supplementing their diet with Artemia nauplii w...

The green algal flagellate, Tetraselmis, is a key transition organism in the phylogeny of green algae. It has been proposed that the cell wall of Tetraselmis arose evolutionarily from the fusion of scales and that this event secondarily caused the alteration of some cytoplasmic processes such as mitotic and cytokinetic mechanisms. Ultrastructural and developmental studies of the cell wall were ...