OBJECTIVE The present study is based on an ethnobotanical research project conducted in Hormozgan province that is located in south of Iran, bordering waters of the Persian Gulf and Oman Sea. This survey was carried out in order to recover the ethnobotanical and ethnomedicinal knowledge of the residents of this province. They are using medicinal and functional plants for treating or preventing ...

The manuscript reviews the available literature of 2015-2022 on microplastic content in commercially important fish species, molluscs and crustaceans Arabian/Persian Gulf. concentrations beaches, subtidal sediment, surface water different regions Gulf is evaluated, also. Overall, reported concentration marine organisms has been found to be less than for comparable waters such as Mediterranean S...

The United Arab Emirates is a peninsular country located on the south-west side of the Arabian (Persian) Gulf and on the north-west banks of the Gulf of Oman (Figure 1). With an area of 83 600 square kilometres (Al Abed et al. 1996: 269), the United Arab Emirates consists of seven emirates: Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Umm al-Qawain, Ras alKhaimah and Fujairah. It was known prior to confed...

Saudi Arabia is the third-largest country in the Middle East by land area, constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and the third-largest Arab country. It is bordered by Jordan and Iraq to the north and northeast, Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates to the east, Oman in the southeast, and Yemen in the south. It is also connected to Bahrain by the King Fahad Causeway. The Persian G...

Abstract. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and their alkylated (RPAHs), nitrated (NPAHs) oxygenated (OPAHs) derivatives are air pollutants. Many of these substances long-lived, can undergo long-range atmospheric transport adversely affect human health upon exposure. However, the occurrence fate pollutants have hardly been studied in marine atmosphere. In this study, we report concentrati...

In this study, genetic differences and phylogenic relationships among six Mugilidae species (Mugil cephalus, M. capito, Liza subviridis, L. saliens, L. aurata, Valamugil buchanani) were determined using PCR-sequencing. M. cephalus, L. subviridis, and V. buchanani from the Persian Gulf and Oman Sea, and L. aurata and L. saliens from the Caspian Sea were col-lected. Samples of an imported, Egypt...