OstracodsOstracoda (ostracod), charophytesCharophyta (charophyte) and pollenPollen were retrieved from sediments of the Baynunah Formation. Autoecological characteristics ostracodsOstracoda (ostracod) (charophyte), together with detailed observations on taphonomyTaphonomy ostracodOstracoda valves, provide a reconstruction depositional environments freshwater system. These microfossil assemblage...

We discovered aequorin and green fluorescent protein (GFP) in 1961 from the same species of jellyfish (Shimomura et al ., 1962). Our target was a luminescent substance, aequorin, and GFP was isolated as a by-product of aequorin owing to its bright conspicuous fluorescence. Both are unusual proteins but they had no particular importance when we first reported them. Their importance became appare...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Lake Malawi Ostracoda Lake levels Climate change Ostracod species from at least seven genera were recovered from drill cores recently collected at Lake Malawi, a large (29,500 km 2) and deep (706 m) African rift valley lake located in the southern African tropics (9–14° S). Allocypria? and an unknown Cypridosine. Taphonomic variables such as the percentage of val...

Adults of freshwater ostracod Stenocypris major (Crustacea, Candonidae) were exposed for a four-day period in laboratory conditions to a range of copper (Cu), cadmium (Cd), zinc (Zn), lead (Pb), nickel (Ni), iron (Fe), aluminium (Al), and manganese (Mn) concentrations. Mortality was assessed, and median lethal times (LT(50)) and concentrations (LC(50)) were calculated. LT(50) and LC(50) increas...