New Developments in Marine Biotechnology

✍ Scribed by Arthur Kornberg (auth.), Y. Le Gal, H. O. Halvorson (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 330
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Past efforts to colonize the environment and domesticate living species, coupled with scientific research, have resulted in the possession (but not always the real control) by humans of any available terrestrial space. However, oceans, which represent up to two­ thirds of the surface of the planet, had not been really approached until the middle of this century. As oceanographic science develops, the picture of a rich, diverse, complex and also, in many respects, specific marine life, is coming into view. In a broad sense, marine biotechnologies can be understood as the various means or techniques of managing marine living systems for the benefit of mankind. The first goal we have is for marine life to provide biomass for food. However, today it is not certain that a significant increase of total world fisheries' catches will be possible in the future. There are several ways to address this. First, we need to generate better, more complete, or different uses of the biomass actually fished. This is mainly a matter of upgrading fish and fish wastes. Second, we need to artificially grow the living species. This falls within the scope of cell cultivation and of aquaculture. Both approaches have to be appreciated si­ multaneously in terms of biology, ecology, and economy. In both approaches, profit improvements are linked to the introduction of biotechnological methods and to the use of biotechnological processes.

✦ Table of Contents

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

✦ Subjects

Freshwater & Marine Ecology