Karyotypes of three species of the marine Veneroida molluscs

INTRODUCTIONExceptforcorbiculalivinginfreshwater,themostVeneroidamolluscsliveinthesea .Theyarewidelydistributedwithlargequantityofcategories.Manyofthebivalvemolluscsareculturedfortheireconomicvalue .ThespeciesofSolengrandis,SaxidomuspurpuratusandMactrachinensisareaquaculturedinthenorthernseasofChina .Morphologyandcultivationbiologyofthebivalvemolluschavebeenreported (Qietal.,1 989;Weietal.,1 995;Wangetal .,1 984 ) .Asthefoundationofbivalvemollusccytogenetics ,chromosomestudyiscritical…     

Three new species of Genus Euphysora from China seas(Hydrozoa: Anthomedusae,Corymorphidae)

INTRODUCTIONEuphysorabelongstoChryTnorphidaeofAnthomedusaeofHydromedusae.fofarfourspeciesofEuphysorawererecordedinChina,i.e.,EuphysorabigelowiMaas1905(XuandZhang,1978),E.annulataKramp1928(~,1988),E.furcataKrarnp1948(~,1988)andE.gracilis(Brooks,1882)(JiangandChen,1994).ThroughstudyonEuphysorafromMinnan(SouthZhejiangProvince)--TaiwanBankfishinggroundandtheDatanBayofHongKongfrom1985,wehavefoundthreenewspeciesofEuphysora,i.e.,E.brunnesceatis,E.knidesandE.solidonema.Owingtothethre…     

Application of RAPD technology for identification in three different stocks of Penaeus chinensis

INTRODUCTIONPenaeuschinensishasbecomeoneoftheprimaryspeciesforaquacultureinChina .How ever ,viralandbacterialdiseaseproblemshaveplaguedtheshrimpaquacultureindustryserious lyinChinasince 1 993.Ithasbeenindicatedthatthereducedgrowthperformanceandthein creasedsusceptibilitytodiseasescouldbearesultoflowlevelsofgeneticvariablities (Carretal .,1 994 ) .InordertosupporttheaquacultureindustryoftheUnitedStates,theUSMarineShrimpFarmaringProgramConsortiumhasdevelopedvariousdisease free populati…     

cDNA cloning and mRNA expression of the translationally controlled tumor protein (TCTP) gene from Japanese sea perch (Lateolabrax japonicus)

1 Introduction T he translationally controlled tum or protein(TC TP) w as firstdescribed as a grow th-related proteinin m ouse E hrilisch ascites tum or cells and ery-throleukem ia cells (Y enofsky etal., 1983). Subse-quently, TC TP w as founded to be present in m anycells (Sanchez etal., 1997; G ross etal., 1989; C hunget al., 2000; V ercoutter-Edouart et al., 2001) exceptthe hum an kidney cell(Sanchez etal.,1997;G achetetal., 1999). H om ologues of TC TP have been reportedfrom sever…     

Abundance and biomass of heterotrophic microbes in the Kongsfjorden, Svalbard

1Introduction Heterotrophicmicrobesarenowconsideredtobe significantcomponentsofthestructureandfunctionof marinepelagicecosystems.Heterotrophicbacteriacon- stituteamajorpoolofbiomassinopenecosystem (WilhelmandSuttle,1999).Theyconsumealargepor- tionofprimaryproduction(Li,1998;Sherryetal., 2002;Lietal.,2004),andtheymineralizemostofthe dissolvedorganiccarbonthattheyconsume(Azamet al.,1983;Richetal.,1997;Azam,1998).Therolesof planktonicprotists,suchasheterotrophicflagellates andciliates,inmicro…     

Study on halotolerance of phyllosoma larva of Chinese spiny lobster (Panulirus stimpsoni Holthuis)

INTRODUcrIONAs a quality seaha, lobster has a greater market demand or higher demand than supply. Inrecent years the natural resource of lobster is decreasing day by day due to overfishing oPera-tions. Conequently, an attention has been increasingly drawn to the development of artificialbreeding in lObster and seedstock preduction. From the l970s to the l980s the culture of lobsterlarva started but with very slow pngress. Inoue et al. (l978), Yamakawa et al. (1989), Kitta-ka and Kimura(l…     

Study on genetic diversity and resource conservation of amphioxus (Branchiostoma balcheri Gray) population

1 Introduction Branchiostom a belcheri G ray (am phioxus) is aprecious m arine species listed in the nationalprotectedanim als ofsecond class (H uang etal., 1999). Itbe-longs to the subphylum cephalochordata ofthe phylumvertebrata. A m phioxus is the ancestor of vertebrates5×108 a ago, and is a typical transitionalsam ple ofevolution from invertebrates to vertebrates. The re-search of am phioxus,therefore,is ofgreatim portanceboth for anim al taxonom y and organic evolution(N ozakiand G or…     

Study on purification and ultrastructure of a baculovirus in Penaeus chinensis

ThisworkwassupportedbytheNationalClimbingProjectB(GrantNo.PDB6-6-1).INTRODUCTIONMorethantenkindsofviruseswhicharepathogenictopenaeidshrimphavebeenrePortedsinceviralpathogenwasfirstobservedincellsofPenaeusduorarumin1974(Couch,l974).TheviraldiseaseshavedonegreatharmtoChineseshrimpculturesincel993whenanepidemicdiseaseofprawnsbrokeoutfromsouthtonorthalongthecoast.Theshrimpproductiondroppedsharplyfrom22OOOotonsin1992to87OOOtonsinl994and53OOOinl993(Wangetal.,1997).Itisurgentthatfastdia…     

Variational iteration solving method for El Nio phenomenon atmospheric physics of nonlinear model

1 IntroductionThe El Ni’o atmospheric physics oscillation is anabnormal phenomenon involved in the tropical Pacificocean- atmosphere interactions. Studies on the El Ni(ophenomenon are very attractive (Lin et al., 2000; Linet al., 2001, 2002; Wang, 2001; Feng et al., 2001;Feng et al., 2002; Liu et al., 2002; Wei and Chen,2003; Xie et al., 2002; Zhu et al., 2002; Pu et al.,2003; Gu et al., 2004; Yu and Liu, 2004). Lin and Mo(2004), Mo and Lin (2004) and Mo et al. (2004) alsostudied a s…     

Purification, characterization and ELISA of metallothionein from red scorponifish, Sebastiscus marmoratus

INTRODUCTIONATislowKWCys-rich(aboutonethird)metal-bindingprotein,lackofaromaticaminoacidresidues.AThasbeenfoundinkidneysandliversofmanymammals,andalsoininvertebrates,microorganismsandplants.ThepresenceofanAT-likeproteinhasbeenfoundinanumberofaquaticorganisms,includingtheplaice(Overnelletal.,1977),rock-fish(Olafsonetal.,1974),goldfish(Marafant,1976),andcrabandshrimp(Olafsonetal.,1979).AThasbecomethesubjectofgreatInterestinrecentyearsduetotheirwideexistenceandmetalaffinity.Scientistsha…     

Effect of Sample Disturbance on Unconfined Compression Strength of Natural Marine Clays

1 .IntroductionCoastalstructuresoftenencountersettlementandstabilityproblemsofsoftmarinefoundation (Liuetal.,1 999;Zhouetal.,2 0 0 0 ;Liuetal.,2 0 0 3) .Manyresearchershaveillustratedthatnaturalmarineclaysaregenerallysubjectedtotheeffectsofsoilstructureduringtheirdepositionalandpost depositionalprocesses (Zhangetal.,1 995;Hongetal.,2 0 0 3a ;2 0 0 3b) .Thesoilstructureofnat uralmarineclaysiseasilydamagedduringsamplingandhandlingbecausenaturalmarineclaysgeneral lyhavehighwatercontentandlowsti…     

A new type of internal solitary waves with a re-appearance period of 23 h observed in the South China Sea

正The South China Sea (SCS), in particular the northern SCS, is one of ocean areas where energetic internal solitary waves (ISWs)occur most frequently (Cai et al., 2012; Zheng, 2017). Based on the re-appearance period (RP) at an observation station, Ramp et al.(2004) divided the ISWs into two types:Type-a and Type-b. Type-a ISWs arrive regularly at the same time every day, i.e., the RP is about 24 h, and Type-b ISWs arrive about one hour late every day, i.e., the RP is about 25 h. The discovery of the Types-a and b ISWs     

Experimental and Numerical Study of Wave-Induced Long-Shore Currents on A Mild Slope Beach

1.Introduction Long shorecurrenthasbecomethesubjectofextensiveworldwideresearchformanyyears.The purposeofthestudyistounderstandandpredicttheprocessesofsedimenttransport,shorelineevolu tionandpollutanttransportinthenear shorezoneundertheactionofwaves.Goda(2001)regarded thesuspendedsedimentastheprincipalloadinsedimenttransportandtheeffectoflong shorecurrents wasemphasized.Theeffectofwavesonpollutanttransportwasstudiedbynumericalmodelandfield experiment(TaoandHan,2002;Rodriguezetal.,1995),andth…     

Studies on Genus Cryptomonas from China seas

ＩＮＴＲＯＤＵＣＴＩＯＮＣｒｙｐｔｏｍｏｎａｓｉｓｕｎｉｃｅｌｌｕｌａｒｂｉｆｌａｇｅｌｌａｔｅｗｈｉｃｈｉｓａｃｏｍｍｏｎｇｅｎｕｓｏｆＣｒｙｐｔｏｐｈｙｔａ .Ｔｈｅｃｅｌｌｓａｒｅｕｓｕａｌｌｙｓｔｒｏｎｇｌｙｃｏｍｐｒｅｓｓｅｄｌａｔｅｒａｌｌｙ .ＴｈｅｒｅａｒｅｏｎｅｏｒｔｗｏｌａｒｇｅＣｈｌｏｒｏｐｌａｓｔｓｔｈａｔｃｏｎｔａｉｎｃｈｌｏｒｏｐｈｙｌｌａ ,ｃ ,ｓｏｍｅｃｈａｒａｃｔｅｒｉｓｔｉｃｃａｒｏｔｅｎｏｉｄｓａｎｄｐｈｙｃｏｂｉｌｉｎｐｉｇｍｅｎｔｓ (Ｈｕｅｔａｌ.,1 997;Ｗｅｉ…     

Distribution of Pacific-origin water in the region of the Chukchi Plateau in the Arctic Ocean in the summer of 2003

1Introduction Besidestheprecipitationandriverdischarges,the watersinthePacificOceanandtheAtlanticOceanare thesourcesoftheArcticOceanwater.TheAtlantic waterenterstheArcticOceanviatheFramStraitand theBarentsSea.Foritsdenserfeatureduetohigh salinity,mostofitsinkstothenorthofSvaldbardand circulatesinallthedeepbasinsintheArcticOcean, formingthedeepandbottomwatersoftheArcticO- cean(Aagaardetal.,1985;Rudelsetal.,1999).The BeringStraitistheonlychannelforthePacificwater toflowintotheArcticOce…     

Studies on hybridization effects of different geographic populations of Chlamys farreri Ⅱ. The medium-term growth and development of Chlamys farreri populations from China and Russia and their reciprocal crosses

Abstract-Based on the research of juvenile (2, 3, 4 months) growth and survival of three popu-lations of two different geographic areas in Chlamys farreri from Russian and China and their F_1 hybridsderived from Chinese cultural population (CC)×Russian population (RW), Chinese wild popu-lation (CW)×Russian population (RW), Russian population (RW)×Chinese wild popula-tion (CW), the study of the medium-term (6, 8, 10, 12 months) growth and development ofChlamys farreri was carried out. The four determined results indicated that there existed different ex-tent heterosis (3%～52%) for the growth in three types of F_1 hybrids, and the offspring derived fromCC×R had a stronger heterosis among the crosses at the medium-term; the uptrend among traitsare wet weight>shell width>shell length>shell height, Chinese cultural population could be recog-nized as excellent parent, and seasonal variations influence very much on the daily increment and growthrate of each trait of Chlamys farreri and it is only able to     

Improved sea-ice radiative processes in a global coupled climate model

1Introduction Seaiceplaysanimportantroleinmoderating heatandmoistureexchangesbetweentheatmosphere andtheoceanathighlatitudes.Seaicealsointeracts withthebroaderclimatesystembythepositiveice albedofeedback(Curryetal.,1995),whichamplifies projectedclimatewarmingatthehighlatitudes,andby theoceanicfeedbackinvolvingicegrowthandmelt, whichinfluencesglobalthermohalinecirculation(i.e., theNorthAtlanticDeepWaterandtheAntarcticBot- tomWater)(Walsh,1983;Barryetal.,1993). Recently,theimplementationofas…     

Studies on rickettsia-like organism (RLO) disease of tropical marine pearl oyster-Epidemiological investigation of RLO disease in juvenile populations of maricultured Pinctada maxima

The death which occurred in juvenile population was a severe problem in the course ofPinctada maxima artificial culture. With the methods of field investigation, histological study and statistic analyses, the epidemiological study was carried out on the disease and death in juvenile populations of Pinctada maxima in the Xinying Pearl Oyster Mariculture Farm of Lingao County (for the A, B and C batches of cultured juveniles hanged in the sea) and the Xincun Pearl Oyster Mariculture Farm of Lingshui County (for the D batch of cultured juvenile hanged in the pond), Hainan Province from November 1993 to April 1995.The results show that the deaths which occurred in juvenile populations of Pinctada maxima presented an outbreak pattern. The peak of mortality rates, in general, occurred in 4-to 6-month old pearl oyster juveniles, and the mortality rates gradully declined with the extention of pearl oyster age after cul-turing 8 months. The correlation between the mortality rates of juvenile populations and mean     

Non-sea-salt sulfate in the marine boundary layer and its possible impact on chloride depletion

1Introduction Sulfurisoneofthemostimportantelements whosebiogeochemicalcyclesarepivotaltotheatmo- sphericenvironmentandtotheclimaticchanges.The predominant,stablechemicalspeciesofsulfurinthe atmosphereissulfuricacidorsulfatewhichunderor- dinaryconditionsexistsmainlyinsmallaerosolparti- cles(Chinetal.,1996;Kerminenetal.,2000;Restadet al.,1998).Sulfuricacidorsulfate-dominatedaerosols areubiquitousintheloweratmosphere.Inthemarine boundarylayer(MBL),non-sea-saltsulfuricacidorsulfate(nss-SO42-)…     

Measurements of suspended particulate matter with laser in-situ scattering and transmissometry in the Jiaozhou Bay in China

1 IntroductionKnowledge of suspended particle size and distri-bution is the key elements for better understandingthe sediment transport processes ( Wang et al.,2004), primary production (Ning et al., 2004),water quality controlling and pollution predictio…