Phylogenetic relationships among five species of Alosa (Alosa maeotica, A. tanaica, A. caspia, A. immaculata and A. fallax nilotica) was examined with sequence analyses of mtDNA ND5/6 region. In pairwise comparision, the highest genetic differences were observed between A. caspia and A. tanaica (0.691), and lowest between A. maeotica and A. tanaica (0.491). In minimum evolution tree, two phylog...

Cordylophora caspia, a colonial hydrozoan native to the Ponto-Caspian region, has become a common invader of both fresh and brackish water ecosystems of North America and Europe. We describe 11 polymorphic microsatellite loci for this species. Preliminary analyses indicate that population substructure may contribute to departures from Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. In addition, new loci failed to ...

In this study 288 length-weight relationships of some fish species from the Turkish coasts Black Sea were gathered 138 studies, which conducted by several researchers between 1989 and 2021. For all species, “b” values ranged 2.49 for Trachurus trachurus to 3.75 Alosa caspia. The expected range 2.5<b<3.5 is confirmed fish. It thought that high b value (3.75) given A. caspia may be ...

this study was carried out to evaluate the chemical compoition of alosa caspia and results compared with clupeonella engrauliformis which is a common fish catch among clupeonella and clupeidae spp in caspian sea . results showed that the amount of fat, protein, ash and dry matter in alosa was higher than clupeonella. the fatty acid composition showed that the epa was very high in alosa that sho...

Ultraviolet-sensitive vision (UVS), believed to have evolved from an ancestral state of violet-sensitive vision (VS), is widespread among terrestrial birds, where it is thought to play a role in orientation, foraging, and sexual selection. Less is known, however, about the distribution and significance of UVS in seabirds. To date UVS has been definitively demonstrated only in two families (Lari...