The southern population of Mugil liza is distributed from Argentina (47°S) to the state São Paulo, Brazil (23°S). Young mullets use estuaries as nursery grounds, and prior recruitment into they surf zone a temporary habitat. Based on 12 consecutive months sampling, this study used generalized linear models (GLM) analyse relationships between environmental variables presence relative abundance y...

Monogenoidea pathogenic activity can elicit various histological responses in fish. Species of Ligophorus are specific parasites of mullets, and its relationship with host fish may result in a moderate pathogenic action. In order to ascertain this relationship, estuarine mullets (Mugil liza) were collected in an estuary, reared in laboratory, for three weeks, and forwarded for histological and ...

Twenty-four polymorphic microsatellite loci were isolated and characterized for Liza affinis using a (GT)13-enriched genomic library. The number of alleles per locus ranged from 3 to 9, with a mean number of 6.250. The observed and expected heterozygosities ranged from 0.417 to 1.000 and from 0.550 to 0.861, with an average of 0.859 and 0.779, respectively. Deviation from Hardy-Weinberg proport...

Juan Carlos Plana1, Maurizio Galderisi2, Ana Barac3, Michael S. Ewer4, Bonnie Ky5, Marielle Scherrer-Crosbie6, Javier Ganame7, Igal A. Sebag8, Deborah A. Agler1, Luigi P. Badano9, Jose Banchs4, Daniela Cardinale10, Joseph Carver11, Manuel Cerqueira1, Jeanne M. DeCara12, Thor Edvardsen13, Scott D. Flamm1, Thomas Force14, Brian P. Griffin1, Guy Jerusalem15, Jennifer E. Liu16, Andreia Magalhães17,...

Yan Zhu, Liza S. Comita, Stephen P. Hubbell and Keping Ma* State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 20 Nanxincun, Xiangshan, Beijing 100093, China; School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA; Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbu...