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2021 Vol. 40, No. 6

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Marine Chemistry
Using triple oxygen isotopes and oxygen-argon ratio to quantify ecosystem production in the mixed layer of northern South China Sea slope region
Zhuoyi Zhu, Jun Wang, Guiling Zhang, Sumei Liu, Shan Zheng, Xiaoxia Sun, Dongfeng Xu, Meng Zhou
2021, 40(6): 1-15. doi: 10.1007/s13131-021-1846-7
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Quantifying the gross and net production is an essential component of carbon cycling and marine ecosystem studies. Triple oxygen isotope measurements and the O2/Ar ratio are powerful indices in quantifying the gross primary production and net communi...
Utilizing 234Th/238U disequilibrium to constrain particle dynamics in hydrothermal plumes in the Southwest Indian Ocean
Weifeng Yang, Xinxing Zhang, Min Chen, Ziming Fang, Yusheng Qiu
2021, 40(6): 16-25. doi: 10.1007/s13131-021-1786-2
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Metal-enriched minerals have been widely observed near hydrothermal vent fields. However, the dynamics of particulate metals influenced by hydrothermal activities is poorly constrained. Here, radioactive 234Th in both dissolved and particulate phases...
Environmental factors affecting regional differences and decadal variations in the buried flux of marine organic carbon in eastern shelf sea areas of China
Qian Yang, Keming Qu, Shu Yang, Yao Sun, Yan Zhang, Mingying Zhou
2021, 40(6): 26-34. doi: 10.1007/s13131-020-1601-5
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To characterize environmental factors controlling decadal-scale variations in the buried flux of marine organic carbon (\begin{document}${\rm{BF}}_{\rm{C_m}} $\end{document}) in the eastern shelf sea areas of China (ECSS), four well preserved sedimen...
Marine Biology
Characterization of ghrelin mRNA expression in fasting Larimichthys crocea juveniles
Feng Liu, Xiaokang Lv, Tianqi Chu, Mengjie Wang, Wei Zhan, Bao Lou
2021, 40(6): 35-40. doi: 10.1007/s13131-020-1692-z
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Larimichthys crocea is a marine fish species cultured in China. Short-term starvation is often applied to improve the quality of cultured L. crocea, and the expression of ghrelin in tissues of stomach, muscle, brain, intestines, liver, and kidney, in...
Parentage determination of black sea bream (Acanthopagrus schlegelii) for stock enhancement: effectiveness and loss of genetic variation
Binbin Shan, Yan Liu, Na Song, Changping Yang, Shengnan Liu, Tianxiang Gao, Dianrong Sun
2021, 40(6): 41-49. doi: 10.1007/s13131-020-1697-7
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The stock enhancement programs for black sea bream Acanthopagrus schlegelii have been conducted in China for a few years. However, little information has been reported concerning the effectiveness and genetic effect of black sea bream stock enhanceme...
Identification of a chitinase from the hepatopancreas of Chinese black sleeper (Bostrychus sinensis)
Yulei Chen, Zhipeng Tao, Minghui Zhang, Lechang Sun, Guangming Liu, Minjie Cao
2021, 40(6): 50-60. doi: 10.1007/s13131-021-1781-7
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Chinese black sleeper (Bostrychus sinensis) is a fish that lives both in seawater and freshwater, feeds on crustaceans, aquatic insects and occasionally shellfish. The existence of digestive enzyme in viscera to act on chitinous exoskeleton of the pr...
Antimicrobial peptide hepcidin contributes to host defense of Centropristis striata against Vibrio harveyi challenge
Xiaowan Ma, Ying Qiao, Yanxiang Shao, Chao Chen
2021, 40(6): 61-66. doi: 10.1007/s13131-021-1776-4
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Hepcidins are small cysteine-rich antimicrobial peptides that play a vital role in immunity against pathogen invasion. Here, a hepcidin (Cshep) from Centropristis striata was described, which is considered as a valuable aquaculture marine species in ...
Implementing geostatistical analysis to study spatio-temporal distribution patterns of swimming crabs (Portunus trituberculatus)
Wenbin Zhu, Kaner Lu, Zhanhui Lu, Qian Dai, Zhenghua Li, Yongdong Zhou, Siqi Huang, Haichen Zhu, Guocheng Cui
2021, 40(6): 67-74. doi: 10.1007/s13131-021-1788-0
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This study attempted to compare the performance of local polynomial interpolation, inverse distance weighted interpolation, and ordinary kriging in studying distribution patterns of swimming crabs. Cross-validation was used to select the optimum meth...
The behavioral and antioxidant response of the bivalve Gomphina veneriformis to sediment burial effect
Xiaojing Li, Linlin Chen, Zhengquan Zhou, Baoquan Li, Xin Liu
2021, 40(6): 75-82. doi: 10.1007/s13131-020-1690-1
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A laboratory-based microcosm experiment was carried out to examine both the behavioral and antioxidant response of the clam Gomphina veneriformis under the conditions of 3 types of burial material (sand, silt, silt-sand mixture) with 3 burial depths ...
Preliminary study on community structures of meiofauna in the middle and eastern Chukchi Sea
Dingyong Huang, Jianjia Wang, Qianhui Zeng, Jiaguang Xiao, Peng Tian, Sujing Fu, Feng Guo, Wentao Niu
2021, 40(6): 83-91. doi: 10.1007/s13131-021-1777-3
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Sediment core samples were collected from 17 stations in the middle and eastern Chukchi Sea during the sixth Chinese National Arctic Research Expedition (CHINARE-Arctic) in summer 2014. The samples were analyzed for composition, abundance, biomass, v...
The distribution of phytoplankton size and major influencing factors in the surface waters near the northern end of the Antarctic Peninsula
Lu Liu, Mingzhu Fu, Kaiming Sun, Qinzeng Xu, Zongjun Xu, Xuelei Zhang, Zongling Wang
2021, 40(6): 92-99. doi: 10.1007/s13131-020-1611-3
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The waters near the Antarctic Peninsula have always been a study hot spot because of their variable and unique oceanographic conditions. To determine the distribution and possible influencing factors on phytoplankton size and abundance near the Antar...
Ecological thresholds of phytoplankton community across environmental gradients in the harmful algal blooms-frequently-occurring, subtropical coastal waters, East China Sea
Ran Ye, Chunying Ge, Qiong Wang, Qing Xu, Guofeng Xu, Yongkang Yan, Mingli Qin, Yanhong Cai, Yuejun Fei
2021, 40(6): 100-110. doi: 10.1007/s13131-021-1782-6
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Phytoplankton communities can response immediately and directly to environmental changes, and thus have been applied as reliable biotic indicators in aquatic systems. This study provided insights into the relationships concerning ecological threshold...
Living coccolithophores in the western Pacific Ocean with mesoscale eddies
Danyue Huang, Haijiao Liu, Jun Sun, Yuqiu Wei, Liuyang Li, Guicheng Zhang, Laxman Pujari
2021, 40(6): 111-128. doi: 10.1007/s13131-021-1780-8
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Living coccolithophores (LCs) are regarded as a group of calcifiers and play important roles in global carbon cycle. This study used microscopic observations of LCs in the western Pacific Ocean to investigate their community structure and biodiversit...
News and Views
The first near real-time inverted echo sounder observation in the South China Sea
Ruixiang Zhao, Xiaohua Zhu, Chuanzheng Zhang, Hua Zheng
2021, 40(6): 129-130. doi: 10.1007/s13131-021-1875-2
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