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New Developments in Marine Biotechnology

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Editors:
  1. Y. Le Gal

    1. National Museum of Natural History and College of France, Concarneau, France

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  2. H. O. Halvorson

    1. University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA

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Table of contents (69 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Biotechnology: Biology or Technology?

    1. Biotechnology: Biology or Technology?

      • Arthur Kornberg
      Pages 1-5

  3. Molecular Biology and Transgenic Animals

    1. The Paradox of growth Acceleration in Fish

      • José de la Fuente, Isabel Guillén, Mario P. Estrada
      Pages 7-10

    2. Gene Transfer in Zebrafish Enhanced by Nuclear Localization Signals

      • Philippe Collas, Peter Aleström
      Pages 11-14

    3. Gene Transfer in Red Sea Bream (Pagrosomus Major)

      • Peijun Zhang, Yongli Xu, Zongzhu Liu, Yuan Xiang, Shaojun Du, Choy L. Hew
      Pages 15-18

    4. Production of Lines of Growth Enhanced Transgenic Tilapia (Oreochromis Niloticus) Expressing a Novel Piscine Growth Hormone Gene

      • Azirur Rahman, Norman Maclean
      Pages 19-28

    5. Retention of a Foreign Gene Transferred as a Protamine-DNA Complex by Electroporated Salmon Sperm

      • F. Y. T. Sin, J. G. I. Khoo, U. K. Mukherjee, I. L. Sin
      Pages 29-31

  4. Natural Products and Processes

    1. A Novel Antioxidant Derived from Seaweed

      • W. C. Dunlap, K. Masaki, Y. Yamamoto, R. M. Larsen, I. Karube
      Pages 33-35

    2. Unusual Marine Sterols May Protect Cellular Membranes against Action of Some Marine Toxins

      • Tatiana N. Makarieva, Valentine A. Stonik, Ludmila P. Ponomarenko, Dmitry L. Aminin
      Pages 37-40

    3. Secondary Metabolites of Marine Organisms

      • K. Mukesh, Miryam Z. Sahni, Valadmir Belenky Wahrman, Gurdial M. Sharma
      Pages 41-47

    4. Biosynthetic Studies on the Salinamides, Depsipeptides from a Marine Streptomyces

      • Bradley S. Moore
      Pages 49-53

    5. Dereplication and Profiling of Marine Bacteria by Fatty Acid Analysis of Crude Extracts Using Fourier Transform Mass Spectrometry

      • David J. Bourne, Eliane Abou-Mansour, Russell T. Hill, Peter T. Murphy
      Pages 55-59

    6. Biocompatible Alginates for Use in Biohybrid Organs

      • Gerd Klöck, Patrik Gröhn, Christan Hasse, Ulrich Zimmermann
      Pages 61-64

    7. Production of Bioactive Compounds by Cell and Tissue Cultures of Marine Seaweeds in Bioreactor System

      • Gregory L. Rorrer, William H. Gerwick, Donald P. Cheney
      Pages 65-67

    8. The Mermaid’s Purse, or What the Skate can tell Us about Keeping Eggs Safe in One Basket

      • Thomas J. Koob, David P. Knight, Marina Paolucci, Bradley Noren, Ian P. Callard
      Pages 69-71

    9. In Vitro Production of Marine-Derived Antitumor Compounds

      • Shirley A. Pomponi, Robin Willoughby, Amy E. Wright, Claudia Pecorella, Susan H. Sennett, Jose Lopez et al.
      Pages 73-76

    10. Structure and Function of Barnacle Cement Proteins

      • Kei Kamino, Yoshikazu Shizuri
      Pages 77-80

  5. Aquaculture

    1. The Development and Commercialization of Tetraploid Technology for Oysters

      • Standish K. Allen Jr., Ximing Guo
      Pages 81-83

    2. New Technology for the Acceleration of Reproductive Maturation in Economically Important Crustaceans

      • Milton Fingerman, Rachakonda Sarojini, Rachakonda Nagabhushanam
      Pages 85-87

    3. Endocrine Factors Regulating Crustacean Reproductive Maturation

      • Lei Liu, Hans Laufer
      Pages 89-91
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About this book

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.

Reviews

`The book is a must for all practitioners of marine (and freshwater) biotechnology, as a compendium of what is becoming possible, and of the remaining obstacles on the road to an environmentally acceptable exponential growth in the exploitation of marine resources for the production of safe products. ... the book is of great interest to practitioners of biotechnology in any other domain, microbial, agricultural, and animal.'
Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 246 (2000)

Editors and Affiliations

  • National Museum of Natural History and College of France, Concarneau, France

    Y. Le Gal

  • University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA

    H. O. Halvorson

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: New Developments in Marine Biotechnology

  • Editors: Y. Le Gal, H. O. Halvorson

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-5983-9

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1998

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-45907-8Published: 30 June 1998

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-3300-3Published: 01 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4757-5983-9Published: 29 June 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 343

  • Number of Illustrations: 39 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Freshwater & Marine Ecology

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