Editorial: Caribbean Sea

Circulation of the Caribbean Sea

The geostrophic method was applied to six north-south hydrographic profiles across the Caribbean Sea and one across the Yucatan Strait. An axis of flow exists in the southern third of the Caribbean Sea. It flows directly over the steep slope in the reference layer found by Defant's method. This condition is similar to that of the Gulf Stream. The baroclinic mass distribution extends to approxim...

“endangered Sea Turtles of the Caribbean”

Editorial: parasitic helminths in Latin America and the Caribbean.

This issue of the Journal of Helminthology includes a special topic dealing with six reviews on various aspects of parasitic helminths in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). The majority refer to helminths infecting aquatic hosts and range from fundamental questions to epidemiology and control challenges. Helminth infections are highly prevalent over large areas of LAC, where they cause seve...

Editorial: Sea Level Variability and Change

Antiherpes screening of marine organisms from Colombian Caribbean Sea

The exploration of marine environment represents a promising strategy in the search for new active antiviral compounds. The isolation and characterization of the nucleosides spongothymidine and spongouridine from the sponge Cryptotethia crypta used as models for the synthesis of ara-A (vidarabine), that has been used therapeutically against herpetic encephalitis, was the most important contribu...