Lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) X has been isolated in crystalline form from mouse testes. Homogeneity of the protein preparation was established by disc gel electrophoresis, analytical ultracentrifugation, and immunochemical analyses. LDH-X is clearly distinct in amino acid composition from LDH-1 and LDH-5 with respect to numbers of residues of leucine, glycine, threonine, and methionine. When 6 t...

A high-resolution multibeam survey from a portion of the San Simeon Channel (offshore Morro Bay, California) captured zone recurring troughs and ridges adjacent to prominent submarine meander bends. Through an integrated study using surveying data, sediment core analysis, radiocarbon dating, stable isotope measurements, we hypothesize that turbidity current event frequency was higher during lat...

An important problem in the study of microparticles in the marine environment, suspended in the water column or deposited as sediment on the ocean bottom, is the determination of provenance of the microparticles-where did they come from and by what processes were they transported to the sampling location? Two techniques of possible interest to those concerned with tracing the origins and disper...

Introduction The impacts of watershed deforestation on lacustrine environments can dramatically affect the productivity of the littoral zone and strongly influence sedimentation rates. Many watersheds flowing into Lake Tanganyika (3°18’8°47’S, 29°05’ 31°18’E) from northern Kigoma region, Tanzania are currently experiencing the effects of deforestation to accommodate high human population densit...

We report the discovery of exceptionally large biogenic magnetite crystals in clay-rich sediments spanning the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) in a borehole at Ancora, NJ. Aside from previously described abundant bacterial magnetofossils, electron microscopy reveals novel spearhead-like and spindle-like magnetite up to 4 microm long and hexaoctahedral prisms up to 1.4 microm long. Simil...

Population ecology incorporates a variety of foundational tenets that aid in understanding community structure and biodiversity of organisms in the natural world. For example, it has been observed that increasing the habitat and environmental complexity is correlated with increasing species diversity (Rosenzweig, 1995). Lake Tanganyika, in central East Africa, represents an ideal system to test...

Authigenic carbonate build-ups develop at seafloor methane-seeps, where microbially mediated sulphate-dependent anaerobic oxidation of methane facilitates carbonate precipitation. Despite being valuable recorders of past methane seepage events, their role as archives of atmospheric processes has not been examined. Here we show that cyclic sedimentation pulses related to the Indian monsoon in co...

Lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) X has been isolated in crystalline form from mouse testes. Homogeneity of the protein preparation was established by disc gel electrophoresis, analytical ultracentrifugation, and immunochemical analyses. LDH-X is clearly distinct in amino acid composition from LDH-1 and LDH-5 with respect to numbers of residues of leucine, glycine, threonine, and methionine. When 6 t...

In this paper the time evolution of heavy metal concentration of Pb, Zn, Cd and Hg, in the sediments of the Bay of Cádiz (southwest of Spain) is studied during the past century, as a result of the industrial influence in the zone. The study has been performed using sedimentary profiles that have been extracted from the seabed. The measurement of 210Pb and 137Cs radionuclides has provided the da...