Disease relevance of North Sea

• New indole alkaloids from the North Sea bacterium Vibrio parahaemolyticus Bio249 [1].
• Virions of fish lymphocystis disease (FLDV) from tumour-carrying-fishes (flounder, dab, plaice and gurnard) collected in the North Sea were isolated directly from the tumours and purified by sucrose and subsequent caesium chloride gradient centrifugation [2].

High impact information on North Sea

• They reached the northern Alps and Paris on 30 April, southern Great Britain on 2 May, the southern North Sea on 3 May, and the northern North Sea on 3 May and again on 8 May [3].
• Here we study their generation in a random sea state characterized by the Joint North Sea Wave Project spectrum [4].
• We investigated the incorporation patterns of leucine in four microbial lineages from the coastal North Sea at concentrations between 0.1 and 100 nM before and during a spring phytoplankton bloom [5].
• Incorporation of glucose under anoxic conditions by bacterioplankton from coastal North Sea surface waters [6].
• Using information for nine microsatellite loci in a total of 1951 fish, we analyzed genetic differentiation among Atlantic herring from eleven spawning locations distributed along a longitudinal gradient from the North Sea to the Western Baltic. Overall genetic differentiation was low (theta = 0.008) but statistically significant [7].

Biological context of North Sea

• According to the calibration, the mean biomass of planktonic bacteria from the North Sea in August 1998 was 24 fg of protein cell-1 [8].
• Cold acclimation led to an increase in aerobic metabolic rates and a considerable downward shift of the upper critical temperature in North Sea L. saxatilis but not in White Sea L. saxatilis [9].
• Limited or no genetic differentiation was found among samples within the Atlantic/North Sea area and within the Baltic Sea, suggesting high gene flow among populations in these areas [10].
• Phylogenetic analyses and population genetics statistics reveal the existence of an Evolutionarily Significant Unit, sensu Moritz (1994), in the Adriatic and another in the Western Mediterranean, Atlantic, and North Sea [11].
• Tetrabromobisphenol A (TBBPA) and hexabromocyclododecane diastereoisomers (alpha-, beta/-, and gamma-HBCD) were investigated in effluents from sewage treatment works, landfill leachates, sediments, and food web organisms of the North Sea basin [12].

Anatomical context of North Sea

• Patterns of purine nucleotides in some North Sea fish erythrocytes [13].

Associations of North Sea with chemical compounds

• During cruises in the tropical Atlantic Ocean (January to February 2000) and the southern North Sea (December 2000), experiments were conducted to monitor the impact of virioplankton on archaeal and bacterial community richness [14].
• A mesophilic, gram-negative, vibrio-shaped, marine, acetate-oxidizing sulfate reducer (strain B54) was isolated from a water-oil separation system on a North Sea oil platform [15].
• A moderately halophilic hydrocarbon-degrading bacterium was isolated from continuous cultures containing a suspension of intertidal sediment from the German North Sea coast with hexadecane as the sole carbon source [16].
• A mesophilic, Gram-negative, rod-shaped, marine, propionate-oxidizing sulfate reducer (strain M16T) was isolated from a water-oil separation system on a North Sea oil platform [17].
• Pulse-labeling with bromodeoxyuridine (BrdU) in combination with fluorescence in situ hybridization was applied to quantify the percentage of proliferating cells in coastal North Sea waters [18].

Gene context of North Sea

• Identification of in vitro estrogen and androgen receptor agonists in North Sea offshore produced water discharges [19].
• Adaptational changes in kinetic parameters of G6PDH but not of PGDH during contamination-induced carcinogenesis in livers of North Sea flatfish [20].
• We compared the detection of bacteria and archaea in the coastal North Sea and at Monterey Bay, Calif., after fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) either with rRNA-targeted oligonucleotide probes monolabeled with the cyanin dye Cy3 (oligoFISH) or with fluorescein-labeled polyribonucleotide probes (polyFISH) [21].
• In contrast, both Nova Scotian populations were genetically much closer to North Sea and Baltic populations than expected from their geographical distance (pairwise rho = 0.03-0.08, P < 0.01) [22].
• Since BDE209 is often the major BDE congener in sediments from the area, the main reason for its low concentrations in biota from the North Sea seems to be a relatively low bioaccumulation potential [23].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of North Sea

• Diet, an independent determinant for plasma total homocysteine. A cross sectional study of Norwegian workers on platforms in the North Sea [24].

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