New Developments in Marine Biotechnology

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Biotechnology: Biology or Technology?....Pages 1-5
The Paradox of growth Acceleration in Fish....Pages 7-10
Gene Transfer in Zebrafish Enhanced by Nuclear Localization Signals....Pages 11-14
Gene Transfer in Red Sea Bream ( Pagrosomus Major )....Pages 15-18
Production of Lines of Growth Enhanced Transgenic Tilapia ( Oreochromis Niloticus ) Expressing a Novel Piscine Growth Hormone Gene....Pages 19-28
Retention of a Foreign Gene Transferred as a Protamine-DNA Complex by Electroporated Salmon Sperm....Pages 29-31
A Novel Antioxidant Derived from Seaweed....Pages 33-35
Unusual Marine Sterols May Protect Cellular Membranes against Action of Some Marine Toxins....Pages 37-40
Secondary Metabolites of Marine Organisms....Pages 41-47
Biosynthetic Studies on the Salinamides, Depsipeptides from a Marine Streptomyces ....Pages 49-53
Dereplication and Profiling of Marine Bacteria by Fatty Acid Analysis of Crude Extracts Using Fourier Transform Mass Spectrometry....Pages 55-59
Biocompatible Alginates for Use in Biohybrid Organs....Pages 61-64
Production of Bioactive Compounds by Cell and Tissue Cultures of Marine Seaweeds in Bioreactor System....Pages 65-67
The Mermaid’s Purse, or What the Skate can tell Us about Keeping Eggs Safe in One Basket....Pages 69-71
In Vitro Production of Marine-Derived Antitumor Compounds....Pages 73-76
Structure and Function of Barnacle Cement Proteins....Pages 77-80
The Development and Commercialization of Tetraploid Technology for Oysters....Pages 81-83
New Technology for the Acceleration of Reproductive Maturation in Economically Important Crustaceans....Pages 85-87
Endocrine Factors Regulating Crustacean Reproductive Maturation....Pages 89-91
Studies on the Sea Bass Dicentrarchus Labrax L. Immune System for Its Control in Aquaculture....Pages 93-95
Development of DNA Vaccines for Aquaculture....Pages 97-100
Genetic Manipulation and Strain Improvement in Commercially Valuable Red Seaweeds....Pages 101-104
Expression of Thyroid Hormone Receptor-α in the Growth and Development of the Sea Bream ( Sparus Aurata )....Pages 105-108
Regulation of Dlx Homeobox Gene Expression During Development of the Zebrafish Embryo....Pages 109-114
Meiotic Cell Cycle Control by Mos in Ascidian Oocytes....Pages 115-119
Activation of Ciona Intestinalis at Fertilisation is Controlled by Nicotinamide Nucleotide Metabolism....Pages 121-123
Apoptosis as a Normal Mechanism of Growth Control and Target of Toxicant Actions during Spermatogenesis....Pages 125-128
Medakafish Embryonic Stem Cells as a Model for Genetic Improvement of Aquaculture Livestocks....Pages 129-134
The Tropical Abalone Haliotis Asinina as a Model Species to Investigate the Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms Controlling Growth in Abalone....Pages 135-140
North American Porphyra Cultivation....Pages 141-144
Oxygen Transport by Hemocyanins....Pages 145-146
The Ink Gland of Sepia Officinalis as Biological Model for Investigations of Melanogenesis....Pages 147-149
Recombinant Factor C from Carcinoscorpius Rotundicauda Binds Endotoxin....Pages 151-154
Molecular and Immunological Characterization of Shellfish Allergens....Pages 155-164
Cell Cultures from the Abalone Haliotis Tuberculata ....Pages 165-170
The Architecture of Degradative Complex Polysaccharide Enzyme Arrays in a Marine Bacterium Has Implications for Bioremediation....Pages 171-176
Manganese Oxidation by Spores of the Marine Bacillus sp. Strain SG-1....Pages 177-180
The Effects of Bioremediation on the Oil Degradation in Oil Polluted Environments....Pages 181-188
Heavy Metal Binding Properties of Wild Type and Transgenic Algae ( Chlamydomonas sp.)....Pages 189-192
DNA Repair Enzymes in Hyperthermophilic Archaea....Pages 193-196
Chaperonin in a Thermophilic Methanogen, Methanococcus Thermolithotrophicus ....Pages 197-200
Production and Application of Natural Stabilizing Compounds from Halotolerant Bacteria....Pages 201-203
Molecular Detection of Magnetic Bacteria in Deep-Sea Sediments....Pages 205-208
Structure and Reaction Mechanism of the β-Glycosidase from the Archaeon Sulfolobus Solfataricus ....Pages 209-212
Immunological Investigations on Antarctic fish Parasitism by Nematodes....Pages 213-216
The Identification and Characterisation of Gracilaria Gracilis Defence Genes Expressed in Response to a Bacterial Infection....Pages 217-219
Improving Enzyme Thermostability....Pages 221-225
Ligand-Activated Ca 2+ Channels in the Nuclear Envelope of Starfish Oocytes....Pages 227-230
Intron as a Source of Genetic Polymorphism for Fish Population Genetics....Pages 231-233
Polymorphism of Digestive Enzymes Coding Sequences in the Crustacea Penaeus vannamei (Crustacea Decapoda)....Pages 235-239
Mating Dynamics of the Snow Crab ( Chionoecetes Opilio , Brachyura: Majidae)....Pages 241-244
Denaturation of Algal Phycobiliproteins Can be Used as a Thermal Process Indicator....Pages 245-249
Stress Responsive Gene for UV-A in Marine Cyanobacterium Oscillatoria sp....Pages 251-253
Analysis of Stress Responsive Gene for Salinity in a Marine Cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp....Pages 255-257
Mussels Mytilus as Model Organisms in Marine Biotechnology....Pages 259-262
Molecular Ecology of Marine Invasions....Pages 263-267
A Super Heat-Stable Extracellular Proteinase from the Hyperthermophilic Archaeon Aeropyrum pernix K1....Pages 269-272
Mannose Adhesin—Glycan Interactions in the Euprymna Scolopes — Vibrio Fischeri Symbiosis....Pages 273-276
Temporal Control of Lux Gene Expression in the Symbiosis between Vibrio Fischeri and Its Squid Host....Pages 277-279
Bacterial Symbionts of the Bryostatin-Producing Bryozoan Bugula Neritina ....Pages 281-284
Are Gamma Proteobacteria the Predominant Symbionts in the Squid Loligo Pealei ?....Pages 285-289
Molecular Detection of Aquatic Birnaviruses from Marine Fish and Shellfish....Pages 291-294
A SDS/Page/Western Blot/EIA Protocol for the Specific Detection of Shrimp Viral Pathogens....Pages 295-302
Expression of Capsid Proteins from Infectious Pancreatic Necrosis Virus (IPNV) in the Marine Bacterium Vibrio Anguillarum ....Pages 303-306
Detection of Culturable and Non-Culturable Vibrio Cholerae 01 in Mexico....Pages 307-310
Molecular Characterization of Metallothionein- and Cytochrome P4501A-CDNAS of Sparus aurata and Their Use for Detecting Pollution along the Mediterranean Coast of Israel....Pages 311-314
Workshop on Fatty Acid Production and Metabolism....Pages 315-316
Workshop on Biodiversity....Pages 317-320
Workshop on Policy....Pages 321-323
Back Matter....Pages 325-343