Transcriptomic responses in the fish intestine

Acknowledgements This study was funded by BBSRC grant BB/M026604/1, and UK Technology Strategy Board (TSB) grant 11974-81166. CED was funded by a BBSRC EastBio PhD studentship at University of Aberdeen. We are grateful to Chris Secombes, Helen Dooley and the two anonymous referees who made valuable comments on the earlier version of the manuscript.

Long-finned pilot whale population diversity and structure in Atlantic waters assessed through biogeochemical and genetic markers

Acknowledgements. Cetacean samples were collected under the auspices of stranding monitoring programs run by the Sociedade Portuguesa de Vida Selvagem, the Coordinadora para o Estudio dos Mamíferos Mariños (supported by the regional government Xunta de Galicia), the UK Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme and the Scottish Agriculture College Veterinary Science Division (jointly funded by Defra and the Devolved Governments of Scotland and Wales), the Marine Mammals Research Group of the Institute of Marine Research (Norway), the Museum of Natural History of the Faroe Islands and the International Fund for Animal Welfare Marine Mammal Rescue and Research Program (USA). The authors thank all the members of these institutions and organizations for their assistance with data and sample collection. S.S.M., P.M.F. and M.F. were supported by PhD grants from the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (POPH/FSE ref SFRH/BD/ 38735/ 2007, SFRH/BD/36766/2007 and SFRH/BD/30240/ 2006, respectively). A.L. was supported by a postdoctoral grant from the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (ref SFRH/BPD/82407/2011). The work related to strandings and tissue collection in Portugal was partially supported by the SafeSea project EEAGrants PT 0039 (supported by Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway through the EEA Financial Mechanism), the MarPro project Life09 NAT/PT/000038 (funded by the European Union program LIFE+) and the project CetSenti FCT RECI/AAG-GLO/0470/2012 (FCOMP- 01-0124-FEDER-027472) (funded by the program COMPETE and the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia). G.J.P. thanks the University of Aveiro and Caixa Geral de Depósitos (Portugal) for financial support. The authors acknowledge the assistance of the chemical analysts at Marine Scotland Science with the fatty acid analysis.

Life history of harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) in Scottish (UK) waters

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Regulatory factors controlling muscle mass : competition between innate immune function and anabolic signals in regulation of atrogin-1 in Atlantic salmon

The research was supported by an industrial PhD studentship between University of Aberdeen and by BioMar Ltd., for Z. Heidari.

Which Th pathway is involved during late stage amoebic gill disease?

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Einsatz faser- bzw. textilverstärkter Verbundwerkstoffe

Die hohen Leistungsansprüche an moderne Lagersysteme führen zu immer kürzeren Taktzeiten beim Warenumschlag, die auch von Regalbediengeräten (RBG) realisiert werden müssen. Um trotz der kurzen Umschlagzeiten eine schnelle und sichere Gutübergabe zu gewährleisten, muss innerhalb der Ausschwingzeit die Amplitude der Schwingungen des Lastaufnahmemittels vor dem Ein- beziehungsweise Auslagerungsvorgang weitgehend abgeklungen sein. Diese Wartezeiten beeinflussen die Taktzeit und damit die Umschlagleistung des RBG negativ. Ein möglicher Ansatz, die Ausschwingzeiten zu verkürzen, ist der Einsatz hochdämpfender Materialien, wie etwa Verbundwerkstoffe. Durch die erreichte Reduzierung der Schwingungsamplituden bei gleichzeitiger Erhöhung des Leichtbaugrades ist eine deutliche Effizienzsteigerung von RBG zu erwarten.