Biology Research Summaries (with Biographical Sketches): Volume 1

Preface; Part I. Researcher Biographical Sketches; Part II. Research Summaries: Native & Invasive Mussels; Life & Interaction of Hydrobiological Organisms (Mytilus sp.) with Harmful Algal Blooms: Composition, Distribution & Metabolism of Hydrophilic & Hydrophobic Toxins in the Austral Pacific Region; Mussels as a Tool to Monitor Pollution; Bioenergetic Model Predictions of Actual Growth & Allometric Transitions during Ontogeny of Juvenile Blue Mussels Mytilus Edulis; The Synthesis of Vitellogenin in the Mussel Mytilus Galloprovincialis: An Interdisciplinary Approach; Brachidontes Solisianus (Bivalvia: Mytilidae) Re-Colonization Dynamics on A Sandstone Reef at Pernambuco - Brazil; Mussel Farms in the Gulf of Naples (Campania, Southern Italy): Real Opportunity or a Risk to Consumers?; Ecosystem Services in the Mediterranean Sea: the Need for an Economic & Business Oriented Approach; Marine Pollution from Shipwrecks at the Sea Bottom: A Case Study from the Mediterranean Basin; Disposal of Produced Formation Water from Offshore Gas Platforms in the Mediterranean Sea: A Parametric Study on Discharge Conditions Aimed at Mitigating Risks for the Marine Environment; Secchi Depth & Water Quality Control: Measurement of Sunlight Extinction; An Environmental Monitoring Plan for the Construction & Operation of a Marine Terminal for Regasifying Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) in the North Adriatic Sea; Bioactive Peptides from the Venom of the Mediterranean Cone Snail Conus Ventricosus; Plasticity in Spider Webs & Silk: An Overview of Current Evidence; Spider Webs as Extended Phenotypes; Lipoproteins of Spiders: Structure & Function; Study of the Discriminate Information on Spider Webs; Ant Mimicry in Spiders Short Communication; Analytical Frameworks of Social Network Analyses; Phylogenetic Networks Are Fundamentally Different from Other Kinds of Biological Networks; Construction of the Statistic Network from Field Sampling; Systems Biology & Environmental Exposures; A Method for Creating a Real Network with Expected Mean & Variance of Degree Distribution; Testing a Tree Productivity: Climate Model with Dendrochronological Data; Modelling Stochasticity in Multi-stable & Oscillatory Biological Networks Far from Equilibrium; Microalgae & Man; Network Structures in Biological Systems & in Human Society; Biology, Morphology & Antiviral Defense of Penaeid Shrimp (Crustacea: Decapoda); Shrimp (Penaeus monodon) Farming in the Coastal Areas of Bangladesh: Challenges & Prospects towards Sustainable Development; A Study of Ecological Connectivity in a Seagrass Bed: Movement & Habitat Use by the Abundant Seagrass Shrimp Phycomenes zostericola (Decapoda: Palaemonidae); The Availability of Brine Shrimp Bioassay as a Screening Technique of Allelopathic Compounds; Oberhauserellidae (Benthic Foraminifera) Outbursts during the Environmental Perturbations at the Triassic-Jurassic Boundary: Palaeoecological Implications; Volgian Foraminifera & Biostratigraphy of the Husky Formation, Arctic Slope Region of Northwestern Canada; New & Revised Cretaceous (Albian-Campanian) Planktic Foraminifera of the Atlantic, Indian & Pacific Oceans; Cretaceous Planktic Foraminifera from the Jacob Whitman Bailey Collection (Farlow Herbarium, Harvard University); Evolutionary Classification of the Globotruncanellid & Abathomphalid Planktic Foraminifera (Late Cretaceous, Late Campanian-Maastrichtian); Biostratigraphical, Paleoecological & Evolutionary Significance of Guembelitria (Planktic Foraminifera) across the K/Pg Boundary in the Atlantic & Tethyan Realms; Eocene-Oligocene Planktic Foraminifera of the West African Margin in Casamance: Biostratigraphy & Paleoecology; Planktic Foraminifera throughout the Pleistocene: From Cell to Populations to Past Marine Hydrology; Soft-Walled Foraminifera under Normoxia/Hypoxia Conditions in the Shallow Areas of the Black Sea; Classification & Taxonomy of Modern Benthic Shelf Foraminifera of the Central Mediterranean Sea; Honeybee Diseases; The Status of Bee Health & Colony Losses in Argentina; Situational Choices among Alternative Visual Stimuli in Honeybees & Paper Wasps when Foraging; Fuel for Foraging: Regulation of the Crop Content of Foragers upon Departing the Hive; Sex Differences of Dopamine Control Systems Associated with Reproduction in Honeybees; Roundtrip-Structure of the Foraging Honeybee (Apis mellifera); Understanding the Role of Zooplankton in Transfer of Pollutants through Trophic Food Webs; A Comparison of Several Plankton Models for Red Tides; Zooplankton Variation in Five Greek Lakes; Zooplankton of the Cooling Reservoir of the Beloyarskaya Nuclear Power Station: Species Characteristics & Accumulative Ability; Some Aspects of Zooplankton (Cladocera, Copepoda) Spatio-Temporal Dynamics in a Large River: The Case Study of the Danube River; Abundance & Trophic Position of Gelatinous Zooplankton in the Namibian Upwelling Region; Seasonal Dynamics of Zooplankton Community Related to the Environmental Factors in a Man-Made Sfax Solar Saltern (Tunisia); Thematic Maps, a Tool to Establish the Spatial Patterns of Eutrophication & the Zooplankton Community Structure in a Tropical Urban Reservoir (Pampulha Reservoir, MG) in Brazil; The Conceptual Foundations of Systems Biology: An Introduction; The Mesoscopic Level & Its Epistemological Relevance in Systems Biology; Mathematical Framework for Analyzing Genome-Wide Association Study Data with Rational Classes; A Review & Perspective on Thermodynamics Applied to Molecular Systems & Cancer Biology; Analysis of Protein-Protein Interaction Networks for Identification of Functional Modules; Mass Spectrometry in Systems Biology; Theory of Reliability in Systems Biology: Aging versus Reliability; Computational Approaches in Synthetic & Systems Biology; Modelling Transcriptional Regulation with Gaussian Processes; Systems Biology Approach for Human Complexity & Personalized Cardiology; Football, Airplanes, Diabetes & Systems Biology; Cardiac Systems Biology; Systems Biology Approach to Transplant Immune Tolerance; Cancer Systems Biology; Eastern Oyster (Crassostrea virginica) Aquaculture & Diversity of Associated Species; The Cadmium Conundrum in British Columbian Oysters: Economics, Ecotoxicology & Ethics ; From Indo-Pacific to Atlantic Ocean: Problems & Risks Related to an Exotic Oyster Introduction Case; Spionid Polychaetes Expand Their Distribution by Accompanying Oyster Shells during Transportation; EPH-Ephrin Signaling in Retinal Ganglion Cells; Nonvisual Ganglion Cell Subtype: Which Kind of Cells Are They? & Where Do They Come From?; Detailed Insights into Functional Retinal Neurodegeneration of Aged DBA/2J Glaucoma Mice; What Have We Learned from Cultured Adult Dorsal Root Ganglion Neurons?; MicroRNA-Target Network Topology across Regions of Chromosomal Synteny (Muller Elements) & Genes Linked to Species Diagnostic Phenotype in Drosophila; Drosophila melanogaster: A Valuable Ally to Understand Human Malignancies; Drosophila melanogaster as a Host Model for Studying the Pathogenesis & Host-Pathogen Interaction of Staphylococcus aureus Infection; Role of Algae in Agriculture; An Illustrated Review on Cultivation & Life History of Agronomically Important Seaplants; Seaweed Uses: Human Health & Agriculture; Scientific Evidences of the Health-Promoting Effect of Seaweed Intake in Humans; Evaluation of Bioactive Compounds in Seaweeds: A Review; Population Studies & Carrageenan Properties in Eight Gigartinales (Rhodophyta) from Iberian Peninsula; D-Amino Acids & Amino Acid Racemases in Seaweeds; Seaweed Polyphenols As Potential Anti-Oxidant Agents; Antioxidant Sulfated Polysaccharides from Seaweed; Oxidative Stress & Mitochondrial Defect in Neuromuscular Disorders: Source or Symptoms?; Oxidative Stress in Biofilms: Causes, Role in Diseases & Biological Effects; Oxidative Stress & Age Related Macular Degeneration; Traditional Chinese Medicine Exerts Cardioprotective Effects Against Myocardial Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury; Controlling Oxidative Stress in Non-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH); Current Approaches to Redox Therapies in Multiple Sclerosis; The Role of Nitric Oxide Toxicity & Oxidative Stress in Graft vs. Host Disease; Review of the Oxidative Stress Role in the Pathophysiology of Different Hearing Disorders: New Insight in the Role of Oxidative Stress in the Pathophysiology of Otosclerosis; Oxidative Stress in Eales' Disease: An Update; Pelagic Diversity & Climate Change; Community Ecology of Pelagic Copepods in Tropical Coastal Waters; Harpacticoida (Copepoda) under Hypoxia Conditions in the Black Sea; Antarctic Lacustrine Copepods: Scattered Remnants of an Ancient Fauna & Recent Marine Invaders; Marine Copepods & Solar Radiation; Swimming, Feeding & Mating Behavior in Copepods: A Brief Review; High-Speed Imaging in Copepod Behavior; The Sensory Horizon of Marine Copepods; Nano- & Microfluidics, Rheology, Exopolymeric Substances & Fluid Dynamics in Calanoid Copepods; Copepod Behavior: Oceanographic Cues, Distributions & Trophic Interactions; Copepod Carcasses: Occurrence, Fate & Ecological Importance; Behaviors of Botos & Short-Finned Pilot Whales during Close Encounters with Humans: Management Implications Derived from Ethograms for Food-Provisioned versus Unhabituated Cetaceans; Presence of Two Morphotypes in Populations of Delphinus delphis: Occipital Bone Morphology; Neurocranium Asymmetries in the Bottlenose Dolphin, Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821); Isolation of Yeasts from Stranded & Captive Dolphins in Italy; All about Dolphins in Secondary Education; Population Ecology & Anthropogenic Stressors of the Coastal Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) in the El Morro Mangrove & Wildlife Refuge, Guayaquil Gulf, Ecuador: Toward Conservation & Management Actions; Unusual Records of the Behavior of Boto Inia sp. (Cetartiodactyla, Iniidae) in the Lower Reaches of the Tocantins & Guam Rivers, Amazonia; An Infrequently-Occurring Anomalous Color Pattern on Pacific White-Sided Dolphins, Lagenorhynchus obliquidens; Dolphin-Assisted Therapy Re-Examined: Is It Fair to the Dolphins?; Transportation Vectors for Non-Indigenous Echinoderms; Antimicrobial Resistant Bacteria in Echinoderms & Their Ecological Consequences; Chemical Ecology of Echinoderms: Impact of Environment & Diet in Metabolomic Profile; Population Variability & Spatial-Pattern of Sea Urchin Anthocidaris crassispina in Hong Kong; Reproductive Biology & Early Life History of the Crown-of-Thorns Starfish; Population Ecology of Common Sea Urchins (Arbacia lixula, Paracentrotus lividus, Sphaerechinus granularis) on Algal-Dominated Rocky Shores in the Aegean Sea; Anchialine Ecosystem El Aerolito (Cozumel, Mexico): Paradise of Cave Dweller Echinoderms; Phenotypic Variation & Resilience in Sea Urchin Morphogenesis; Response of Sea Urchin to Environmental Stress; Nonparametric Regression Applied to Sea Urchin Growth; Sea Urchin Immune System: From Basic Concepts to Environmental Biomonitoring; Systems Biology: An Integrated Platform for Bioinformatics, Systems Synthetic Biology & Systems Metabolic Engineering; General Overview of the Benign Diseases of the Breast; Epidemiology; Development, Anatomy, Physiology, & Developmental Abnormalities; Physical Exploration of the Breast; Nipple Discharge & Secretions; Inflammatory Lesions; Fibrocystic Disease; Superficial & Deep Vascular Lesions; Proliferative Stromal Lesions; Benign Tumors of the Breast; Mastalgia; Gynecomastia; Imaging Studies for Benign Lesions of the Breast; Benign Breast Diseases: Current Pathological & Molecular Concepts; History, Science & Conservation of Sea Turtles in Chile; The Role of Residents, Tourists & Students in Marine Turtle Conservation; Biological Monitoring of Sea Turtles on Nesting Beaches: Datasets & Basic Evaluations; Quantifying Sea Turtle Nesting Habitat: Using Beach Profiling & Nest Distribution As a Conservation Tool; Sea Turtle Protection Network: An Indicator for Tourist & Environmental Sustainability at Los Cabos, B.C.S.-Mxico; Health Issues in Sea Turtles: Barnacles, Snails & Leeches; Past, Present & Future of Conservation of Sea Turtles in Mexico; Sea Turtles & Conservation Challenges in the Peninsula of Baja California; The Positive Effects of Prescribed Burning of Clear-Cuts on Saproxylic Beetle Diversity Are Short-Lived & Depend on Forest-Fire Continuity; Community Assembly of Saproxylic Beetles in Old-Growth Forest & Recently Burnt Forest; Assessing the Potential Role of Ground Beetles (Coleoptera) As Ecological Indicators in Tropical Ecosystems: A Review; Twig-Girdler Beetles of the Atlantic Rainforest; Biology, Ecology & Strategies for Control of Stored-Grain Beetles: A Review; Decaying Matters: Coleoptera Involved in Heterotrophic Systems; How a Locality Can Have so Many Species? A Case Study with Dung Beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae) In a Tropical Rain Forest in Colombia; Biodiversity in Geographically Remote Natural Populations of Adalia Ladybirds (Coleoptera: Coсcinellidae); Ladybird Diversity on Crops & Ecology of Cocicnelle algerica Kovar in Tunisia; Marine Dinoflagellates; Internal Rotation in Molecular Crystals: Computational Studies; H∞ Robust Designs & Their Applications to Control, Signal Processing, Communication, Systems & Synthetic Biology: An Integrated Course for Engineering, Mathematics & Bioscience; Aphid Monitoring & Predicting Based on Remote Sensing Data; Changes in the Distribution of Russian Wheat Aphid Biotypes in South Africa from 2009 to 2013: Future Implications for the Wheat Industry in a Changing Environment; Biological Control of Whiteflies.