A flatworm was discovered inside the coelomic cavity of the commercial sea cucumber Isostichopus fuscus along the Pacific coast of Mexico. Based on morphological and genetic evidence, it was determined to be Anoplodium sp. belonging to class Rhabditophora. Thus, the sea cucumber I. fuscus constitutes a new host. The flatworms were consistently found on the surface of the haemal vessels and the ...

Sea cucumbers are fished worldwide, with more than 50 species commercially exploited. In South-East Asia, important sources of sea cucumber are Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand and Malaysia, with Singapore and Hong Kong being major export destinations. The product is popular among oriental consumers due to its alleged ability to improve vigour and cure a number of ailments. Supply ...

Plant disease has been a major constraining factor in the production of cucumber,the traditional diagnostic methods usually take a long time, and the control period is often missed. We take computer image processing as a method, preprocessing the images of more than 100 sheets of collected samples of cucumber leaves, using the region growing method to extract scab area of leaves to get three fe...

This study, carried out in five fishing communities along the Kenyan coast, examined fisheries-derived income of fishers and traders in two different invertebrate fisheries (octopus and sea cucumber) and tested if differences in global market integration of these two products could explain differences in income inequalities among actors involved in the two fisheries. The structure of the value ...

sphingolipids (GSLs) from echinoderms, a series of studies on the isolation and structural elucidation of the GSLs from sea cucumber species have been performed in our laboratory. In the study of the GSLs of the sea cucumber Holothuria pervicax, we reported the isolation and structure of ten glucocerebrosides revealing a very close resemblance in structure. However, all these compounds still ex...

Sea cucumber (Holothuria atra) was used as a reducing and capping agent in the green synthesis process to produce silver nanoparticles (AgNPs). The antioxidant activity of generated then evaluated. Seacucumber extract mixed with AgNO3 solution homogenized using magnetic stirrer create nanoparticles. It determined that nanoparticle production had occurred UV-Vis spectrophotometer. Before being e...