With the rapid development of aquaculture in the Mediterranean, a number of parasitic diseases have emerged in cage-reared fish. In confined rearing conditions, the diseases can induce mortality and economic losses related to suppressed growth. With diversification of aquaculture products and the introduction of new fish species into the rearing system, new parasitic pathogens have found their ...

Absorbance spectra were measured by microspectrophotometry in retinal rods of sand gobies (Pomatoschistus minutus) from four allopatric populations (Baltic Sea, Swedish west coast, English Channel and Adriatic Sea). Mean (+/- S.E.M.) wavelengths of maximum absorbance (lambda(max)) were 508.3+/-0.5 nm, 505.4+/-0.2 nm, 506.2+/-0.3 nm and 503.0+/-0.3 nm, respectively. Pairwise comparison between t...

Seawater from the northern Adriatic, with low phosphorus (0.03 WM) and nitrogen (1.0 WM NO3 and 1.0 WM NH4) concentration, was incubated for 12 days in 20-l polycarbonate carboys. The addition of a nutrient mixture (0.6 WM PO4, 5.1 WM NO3, 1.8 WM NH4, 10.6 WM SiO2) induced a strong diatom bloom, reaching 25 Wg l31 Chl a. Primary and bacterial production were stimulated by the initial enrichment...

Toxins known to cause Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning (PSP) syndrome in humans that can have serious economic consequences for aquaculture were determined in ascidians of the genus Microcosmus. Significant concentrations of toxins were confirmed in all tested samples collected from the western coast of Istria Peninsula (Adriatic Sea, Croatia) when six people were poisoned following the consumptio...

The calculation of aggregate linguistic distances can compensate for some of the drawbacks inherent to the isogloss bundling method used in traditional dialectology to identify dialect areas. Synchronic aggregate analysis can also point out differences with respect to a diachronically based classification of dialects. In this study the Levenshtein algorithm is applied for the first time to obta...

The paper documents the use of a Digital Elevation Model (DEM) method to reconstruct paleochannels and the paleo-coastline during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) in the Central Eastern Adriatic area. We focused on the paleo-coastline and paleo-channels of the Neretva and the Cetina rivers, which were estimated from the 15’’ bathymetry available for the Adriatic Sea. While being aware of the limi...

Coccolithophores are unicellular marine algae belonging to the haptophyte group, characterized by production of intricate calcium carbonate plates that adorn their cells and exhibit species-specific morphology. The Adriatic Sea has historically been type locality numerous phytoplankton species, including coccolithophores. However, since initial description, many species have not recorded during...

Wind and waves present the main causes of environmental loading on seagoing ships offshore structures. Thus, its detailed understanding can improve design maintenance these wave statistical models are developed based WorldWaves database for Adriatic Sea: entire Sea as a whole, divided into three regions 39 uniformly spaced locations across Adriatic. Model parameters fitted presented each case, ...

Abstract The Mediterranean Sea is a hotspot for shark and ray extinctions home to the following three angelshark species: sawback Squatina aculeata , smoothback oculata common squatina . We conducted questionnaire-based survey in four coastal regions of Albania, Shëngjin (Lezhë), Vlorë, Himarë (Sarandë) Durrës, with aim collecting historical current data on catches Albanian seas (Adriatic Ionia...

A precise inference of past demographic histories including dating of demographic events using bayesian methods can only be achieved with the use of appropriate molecular rates and evolutionary models. Using a set of 596 mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase I (COI) sequences of two sister species of European green crabs of the genus Carcinus (C. maenas and C. aestuarii), our study shows how chron...