Sjoukje Berdina Beike de Boer, Albert Eduard Boon, Anna Marte de Haan De Fjord, Center of Orthopsychiatry and Forensic Youth Psychiatry, Lucertis, Capelle aan den IJssel, The Netherlands De Jutters, Center of Youth Mental Healthcare Haaglanden, The Hague, The Netherlands Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Curium-Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands Email: s.debo...

Pseudomonas psychrophila MTCC 12324 is a facultatively psychrophilic bacterium isolated from the Arctic fjord Ny-alesund in the Svalbard Archipelago. Here, we present a 5.2-Mb draft genome sequence of P. psychrophila MTCC 12324, reported for the first time, from the Arctic. This enables a study of the cold adaptation mechanisms to survive under the extreme cold conditions.

Urbanization has resulted in increased contaminant run-off densely populated areas. Climate change is expected to result a higher frequency of extreme weather events including torrential rainfall and storms. The levels polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), chlorinated paraffins (CPF) selected metals, small urban river were monitored during snow-melting quantify the contribution contamination ...

Previous studies have found strong evidences for Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) egg retention in fjords, which are caused by the combination of vertical salinity structure, estuarine circulation, and egg specific gravity, supporting small-scaled geographical differentiations of local populations. Here, we assess the variability in egg specific gravity for selected local populations of this species...

The mean specific biovolumes (biovolume cell) of the bacterioplankton within a 250-m-deep water column in Howe Sound, British Columbia, were determined for the period of 4 September 1984 to 23 October 1985. These bacteria had an annual cycle in mean specific biovolume; they were small (ca. 0.058 mum) in mid-winter, larger in spring (ca. 0.076 mum), larger again in summer (up to 0.102 mum), and ...

A draft genome sequence was obtained from the type strain of Gelidibacter algens (ACAM 536). This species was isolated from sea-ice diatom assemblages collected from Ellis Fjord, Eastern Antarctica. The genome of ACAM 536 is a single circular chromosome with an estimated size of 4.50 Mbp.

38 39 Magellania venosa, the largest recent brachiopod (Davidson 1886, McCammon 1973), 40 occurs in clusters and banks in population densities of up to 416 ind m-2 in the fjord Comau, 41 northern Chilean fjord region. Below 15 m depths, it co-occurs with the mytillid Aulacomya 42 atra and dominates the benthic community below 20 m. To determine the question why 43 Magellania venosa is a success...

The sulfate-reducing bacterial populations of a stratified marine water column, Mariager Fjord, Denmark, were investigated by molecular and culture-dependent approaches in parallel. Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) of PCR-amplified 16S rRNA and DNA encoding rRNA (rDNA) isolated from the water column indicated specific bacterial populations in different water column layers and reve...

The microbial community composition of polar and temperate ocean waters differs substantially, but the potential functional consequences of these differences are largely unexplored. We measured bacterial production, glucose metabolism, and the abilities of microbial communities to hydrolyze a range of polysaccharides in an Arctic fjord of Svalbard (Smeerenburg Fjord), and thus to initiate remin...