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Open Journal of Marine Science (OJMS) is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancements in marine science. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of marine…
Larissa A. Balabanova, Michael V. Pivkin, Valery A. Rasskazov
The distribution and specificity of extracellular nucleases produced by marine fungi belonging to eleven genera, namely: Alternaria , Aspergillus , Aureobasidium , Chaetomium , Fusarium , Gliomastix , Humicola , Penicillium , Scopulariopsis , Wardomyces , Per…
Y. Ohta, S. Nishi, T. Haga, T. Tsubouchi, R. Hasegawa, M. Konishi, Y. Nagano, Y. Tsuruwaka, Y. Shimane, K. Mori, K. Usui, E. Suda, K. Tsutsui, A. Nishimoto, Y. Fujiwara, T. Maruyama, Y. Hatada
Lignin is one of the most abundant biomasses in nature. It is composed of aromatic moieties and has great potential for use in the production of chemical alternatives to petroleum products. Because of increasing interest in biocatalysis, the potential for ind…
Hans Ulrik Riisgård, Line Bøttiger, Daniel Pleissner
The effects of salinities between 10 and 30 psu on the growth of blue mussels, Mytilus edulis , were studied in laboratory feeding experiments and compared to the growth of mussels suspended in net-bags in the brackish water Great Belt, Denmark. In the labora…
Rafael Flores-Garza, Arcadio Valdés González, Pedro Flores-Rodríguez, Sergio García-Ibáñez, Norma L. Cruz-Ramirez
Plicopurpura pansa is a cultural resource with economic importance since ink can be extracted from it to dye clothes. This snail inhabits the rocky intertidal zone of Mexican Pacific, is found attached to rocks in crevices and holes. The objective was to anal…
Carlos Andrés Satizabal R., Jaime Ricardo Cantera Kintz, Paula Cristina Sierra-Correa
Although the importance of mangroves is clearly recognized around the world, these ecosystems are being strongly altered by the logging of their forests for multiple purposes. The Colombian Pacific coast is not an exception to this situation, and apart from t…
David Salas-Monreal, David Alberto Salas-de-Leon, María Adela Monreal-Gomez, Mayra Lorena Riverón-Enzástiga, Erika Mojica-Ramírez
Acoustic Doppler current profiles and water density profiles were measured over the 280 m deep continental slope of the Gulf of California to elucidate the bathymetric effect on zooplankton distribution. These measurements were combined with water velocity an…
Stéphane Pous, Xavier Carton, Pascal Lazure
A homogeneous shallow-water model with free surface is used to model the tidal circulation in the Persian Gulf. The numerical finite-difference model includes harmonic diffusion of horizontal momentum and quadratic bottom friction, it has a 9 km mesh size and…
Danusia Ferreira Lima, Olívia Maria Cordeiro Oliveira, Manoel Jeronimo Moreira Cruz, Jorge Alberto Triguis, Antonio Fernando de S. Queiroz
Bioremediation is a technique applied to several environmental impacts, among which the ones generated by petroleum derivatives, through the introduction of microorganisms into the environment, or creating optimal conditions for them to develop. The present s…
Ella Meilianda, Katrin Huhn, Dedy Alfian, Alexander Bartholomae
Surface sediment data acquired by the grab sampling technique were used in the present study to produce a high-resolution and full coverage surface grain-size mapping. The objective is to test whether the hypothetically natural relationship between the surfac…
A. L. Drozdov, S. V. Galkin
Ultrastructure of gametes (sperm and eggs) of vestimentiferan tubeworms and external-internal insemination by means of spermatozeugmata in Riftia pachyptila were described. The spermatozoa of Riftia are threadlike, about 130 μm long, and have a diameter of ab…
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