Three species of the processid shrimp genus Processa Leach, 1815, including two new species, are reported from shallow coastal waters in Okinawa Island, Ryukyu Islands, Japan: P. affinis Hayashi, 1975, P. filipes n. sp. and P. hayashii n. sp. The present specimens of P. affinis represent the rediscovery and range extension of this poorly known species, originally described from Indonesia. Male ...

BACKGROUND Oldenlandia affinis, commonly called 'kalata-kalata', a versatile plant used locally to treat malaria fever in some parts of sub-Saharan Africa was investigated for anti-plasmodial and anti-inflammatory activities. OBJECTIVE The study was designed to evaluate the antiplasmodial as well as anti-inflammatory activities of whole extract and cyclotide-rich fraction of Oldenlandia affin...

A laboratory experiment was performed to quantify the fate of diatom phytodetritus and how this is affected by the presence of benthic amphipods. A Baltic Sea spring bloom sedimentation event was simulated by adding 14C-labeled diatoms (Skeletonema costatum) to microcosms with varying densities of the amphipods Monoporeia affinis and Pontoporeia femorata, as well as to microcosms without amphip...

BACKGROUND The influence of infection with two species of entomopathogenic nematodes of Steinernematidae family on the activity of superoxide dismutase (SOD) of the host was studied. MATERIAL AND METHODS Last instar larvae of Galleria mellonella were experimentally infected with Steinernema affinis and S. feltiae at 20 invasive juveniles per insect. At 6, 12, 18, 24 and 36 h after infection a...

The BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Disaster was the most catastrophic offshore oil spill in U.S. history, yet we still have a poor understanding of how organisms could evolve in response to the toxic effects of crude oil. This study offers a rare analysis of how fitness-related traits could evolve rapidly in response to crude oil toxicity. We examined evolutionary responses of populations of the comm...

In the present study the induction of micronuclei (MN) and nuclear abnormalities (NA) in erythrocytes of mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis) (Baird & Girard 1853) was studied. Fish were exposed to three different concentrations of lambda-cyhalothrin (LCT) (1×10(-4)μg/l, 2×10(-4)μg/l, 4×10(-4)μg/l) for periods of 6, 12, 24, and 48h. NA (notched, lobed, blebbed nuclei), MN, bi-nucleated cells, and th...

Predation by adults of the amphipod Monoporeia affinis on the plantigrade postlarval stage of the bivalve Macoma balthica was studied in the laboratory. We confirmed that M. affinis consumes small M. balthica. Amphipods offered 14C-labelled postlarvae took up the radioactive tracer, while those presented Rhodamine B-stained postlarvae acquired gut contents fluorescing strongly in orange, wherea...