Aquaculture applications of the Family Blenniidae
EDIS, 2020 Marine ornamental fish production is still in its infancy compared with its freshwater ornamental counterpart. With ~1,800 wild caught fish species imported into the US each year, there is clear need for the expansion of marine ornamental production to ...
Jesse Von Linden +3 more
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Cuttlefish Sepia officinalis Preferentially Respond to Bottom Rather than Side Stimuli When Not Allowed Adjacent to Tank Walls. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Cuttlefish are cephalopods capable of rapid camouflage responses to visual stimuli. However, it is not always clear to what these animals are responding.
Darcy A A Taniguchi +4 more
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Tadpole body size and behaviour alter the social acquisition of a defensive bacterial symbiont [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2019 Individual differences in host phenotypes can generate heterogeneity in the acquisition and transmission of microbes. Although this has become a prominent factor of disease epidemiology, host phenotypic variation might similarly underlie the transmission
Carl N. Keiser +3 more
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ROV's Video Recordings as a Tool to Estimate Variation in Megabenthic Epifauna Diversity and Community Composition in the Guaymas Basin [PDF]
, 2020 Patterns in benthic megafauna diversity in littoral and intertidal zones in the Gulf of California have been associated with both habitat heterogeneity and substrate type.
Barry, James P. +3 more
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Interaction between feeding rate and area for periphyton in culture of Nile tilapia juveniles =Interação entre a taxa de arraçoamento e a área para perifíton no cultivo de juvenis de tilápia do Nilo [PDF]
Acta Scientiarum: Animal Sciences, 2012 The objective of the present work was to determine the effects of the interaction between feeding rate and area for periphyton in rearing aquaria for Nile tilapia. Twenty 25 L polyethylene outdoor aquaria were used to hold experimental fish.
Francisco Jackes Rodrigues da Silva +4 more
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Ecotypes of Aquatic Plant Vallisneria americana Tolerate Different Salinity Concentrations
Diversity, 2020 Increased salinity caused by saltwater intrusion or runoff from de-icing salts can severely affect freshwater vegetation and deteriorate aquatic ecosystems.
Mohsen Tootoonchi +5 more
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Resource Partitioning by Two Species of Stream Mayflies (Ephemeroptera: Heptageniidae) [PDF]
, 2017 We compared the phenology of nymph development, food type, and habitat selection of two stream mayflies, Stenacron interpunctatum (Say) and Stenonema pulchellum (Walsh) in Big Darby Creek, Ohio.
Britt, N. Wilson, Lamp, William O
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Flow Structure and Transport Characteristics of Feeding and Exchange Currents Generated by Upside-Down Cassiopea Jellyfish [PDF]
, 2012 Quantifying the flows generated by the pulsations of jellyfish bells is crucial for understanding the mechanics and efficiency of their swimming and feeding. Recent experimental and theoretical work has focused on the dynamics of vortices in the wakes of
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Further expansion of the alien seaweed Caulerpa taxifolia var. distichophylla (Sonder) Verlaque, Huisman & Procacini (Ulvophyceae, Bryopsidales) in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea [PDF]
, 2016 We are grateful to Andreas Antoniou (Dep. of Environment, Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development & Environment, Cyprus) for his assistance in the preparation of the illustrations. We would also like to thank Dr.
Aplikioti, Marilena +8 more
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The roles of inter- and intra-sexual selection in behavioral isolation between native and invasive pupfishes [PDF]
, 2017 Male-male competition and female mate choice may both play important roles in driving and maintaining reproductive isolation between species. When previously allopatric species come into secondary contact with each other due to introductions, they ...
Becher, Cory, Gumm, Jennifer M.
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