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Scaling-Up: A Fifth Year of Restoring Oyster Reefs in Great Bay Estuary, NH 2013 Annual Program Report [PDF]
The eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica) in New Hampshire’s Great Bay Estuary has declined in the past decades, with local populations reduced due primarily to disease, excessive siltation, and past over-harvest.
Eckerd, R. +4 more
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Metabolome Diversity Enhances Resistance of Intertidal Clams to Thermal Stress
Meretrix species are widely distributed intertidal bivalves in China with significant ecological and economic importance, which are sensitive to thermal stress. Our results showed that thermal environments of clam habitats shaped metabolome diversity, which can enhance the resistance of intertidal clams to thermal stress.
Zhi Hu +5 more
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Microplastics have been an emerging threat to filtering species and the ingestion and impacts of microplastics on oysters are a cause for concern. However, much remains unknown about the effects of microplastics on flavor-related biomarkers in oysters ...
Yu Liu +5 more
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Infectious microbial diseases and host defence responses in Sydney rock oysters
Aquaculture has long been seen as a sustainable solution to some of the world’s growing food shortages. However, experience over the past 50 years indicates that infectious diseases caused by viruses, bacteria and eukaryotes limit the productivity of ...
David Andrew Raftos
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Abstract Purpose To determine the relationship between the baseline junctional retinal sensitivity measured with microperimetry and the atrophy progression rate in eyes with geographic atrophy (GA) secondary to age‐related macular degeneration. Methods In this prospective cohort study, patients with GA were examined with fundus autofluorescence (FAF ...
Alexander Kai Thomsen +5 more
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Testing of Geat Bay Oysters for Two Protozoan Pathogens [PDF]
Two protozoan pathogens, Haplosporidium nelsoni (MSX) and Perkinsus marinus (Dermo), are known to be present in Great Bay oysters. With funds provided by the Piscataqua Region Estuaries Partnership (PREP), the Marine Fisheries Division of the New ...
Grout, Douglas E.
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Macau as Method: Recombinant Urbanism in Post‐Socialist China
ABSTRACT In ‘Asia as Method’, Chen Kuan‐Hsing argues for the value of an indigenous inter‐Asian approach to analysing the effects of European imperialism on the countries and citizens of Asia. This article mobilises both Chen's inter‐Asian referencing strategy and the city‐state of Macau to explore Macau's role in China's engagements with global ...
Tim Simpson
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X UTRITIONAL anemia is known to be quite prevalent in children. liN The majority of cases occur between the ages of 3 months and 212 years; however, instances of anemia in children up to 5 years are not unusual. Mackay 1 reports that of the infants under 12 months of age which are brought to London clinics, 45 per cent of the breast-fed and 51 per cent
E J, Coulson, H, Levine, R E, Remington
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Advancing conservation breeding programs for marine invertebrates
Abstract In the face of ecosystem change and biodiversity loss caused by climate change and other stressors, conservation breeding, or captive breeding, with the aim of reintroduction for wild population recovery, is an emerging tool for preventing species’ extinction and rehabilitating ecosystems.
Elora H. López‐Nandam +3 more
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Shellfish are known as a potential source of Toxoplasma gondii (responsible for toxoplasmosis), and Cryptosporidium parvum, which is one of the major causes of gastroenteritis in the world.
Nicholas D. Marquis +4 more
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