Aquatic Oligochaetes of Iraq's Southern Marshes

Molecular Barcoding of Aquatic Oligochaetes: Implications for Biomonitoring

Aquatic oligochaetes are well recognized bioindicators of quality of sediments and water in watercourses and lakes. However, the difficult taxonomic determination based on morphological features compromises their more common use in eco-diagnostic analyses. To overcome this limitation, we investigated molecular barcodes as identification tool for broad range of taxa of aquatic oligochaetes. We r...

Next-Generation Sequencing of Aquatic Oligochaetes: Comparison of Experimental Communities.

Aquatic oligochaetes are a common group of freshwater benthic invertebrates known to be very sensitive to environmental changes and currently used as bioindicators in some countries. However, more extensive application of oligochaetes for assessing the ecological quality of sediments in watercourses and lakes would require overcoming the difficulties related to morphology-based identification o...

Die-Off of Southern U.S. Salt Marshes

Sampling Aquatic Invertebrates from Marshes: Evaluating the Options

Designing an effective sampling program and accurately interpreting the results requires a knowledge of the sampling characteristics of the various devices which might be used, but such knowledge is lacking for invertebrate samplers that can be used in heavily vegetated wetlands. We evaluated the sampling characteristics of 8 invertebrate samplers in vegetated habitats by employing them side-by...

Fatty acid composition of important aquatic animals in Southern Thailand

Aquatic animals are important to health-conscious consumers due to their high content of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) particularly omega-3 FA. This paper reports the fat contents and fatty acid profiles of 20 species of marine fish and 6 species of squid and shrimp (obtained in the fishing port of Pattani, Thailand), in addition to 7 types of Thai freshwater fish to create a fatty acid da...