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The status of the California yellowtail resource and its management
The California yellowtail, Seriola dorsalis, is a highly
favored sport fish and a minor commercial species. Since
1954 commercial landings have been limited by demand, and the
sport catch has been about three times the number of fish
caught by commercial fishermen.
Recreational fishing for yellowtail in southern
California waters is almost entirely dependent on annual
migrants from central and northern Baja California. The resource is presently healthy but reduced catches off California could be the result of an expanded catch off Mexico. (19pp.
Life history aspects of 19 rockfish species (Scorpaenidae: Sebastes) from the Southern California Bight
The authors investigated various life history aspects of 19
rockfish species (Sebastes chlorostictus, S. constellatus, S. dalli, S. elongatus, S. ensifer, S. entomelas, S. flavidus, S. goodei, S. hopkinsi, S. levis, S. melanostomus, S. miniatus, S. ovalis, S. paucispinis, S. rosaceus, S. rosenblatti, S. rufus, s. saxicola, S. semicinctus) from the southern California Bight. These aspects included depth distribution, age-length relationships (of 7 species), length-weight relationships, size at first maturity, spawning season, and fecundity. Growth rates of female S. elongatus, S. hopkinsi, S. ova/is, S. saxicola, and S. semicinctus were higher
than male conspecifics. Multiple spawning per season was found in 12 species. Generally, most species spawned between late winter and early summer, though there was some spawning within the genus throughout the year. Spawning season duration ranged from 2 (S. flavidus) to 10 months (S. paucispinis). Spawning seasons tended to start earlier in the year and be of longer duration in the southern California Bight, compared to published data on central California conspecifics. Males matured at a smaller length in 7 of the 17 species studied. Maximum fecundities ranged from 18,000 (S. dalll) to about 2,680,000 (S. levis). (PDF file contains 44 pages.
California's Pacific bonito resource, its status and management
Pacific bonito, Sarda chiliensis, have become increasingly
important to California's sport and commercial fishermen since
the early 1960's, but are now showing signs of decline. Recent
investigations have revealed much about the bonito's life
history and population dynamics.
These recent discoveries have been brought together into a document which will serve as a guide to future management
actions. Document has 44 pages
Faunal Remains: Results by Species
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7487-2635This book is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution + Noncommercial 4.0 license. Copyright is retained by the author(s). The attached file is the published version of the article
NN interaction in a Goldstone boson exchange model
Adiabatic nucleon-nucleon potentials are calculated in a six-quark
nonrelativistic chiral constituent quark model where the Hamiltonian contains a
linear confinement and a pseudoscalar meson (Goldstone boson) exchange
interaction between quarks. Calculations are performed both in a cluster model
and a molecular orbital basis, through coupled channels. In both cases the
potentials present an important hard core at short distances, explained through
the dominance of the [51]_{FS} configuration, but do not exhibit an attractive
pocket. We add a scalar meson exchange interaction and show how it can account
for some middle-range attraction.Comment: 32 pages with 12 eps figures incorporated, RevTeX. Final version
published in PR
Human α2β1HI CD133+VE epithelial prostate stem cells express low levels of active androgen receptor
Stem cells are thought to be the cell of origin in malignant transformation in many tissues, but their role in human prostate carcinogenesis continues to be debated. One of the conflicts with this model is that cancer stem cells have been described to lack androgen receptor (AR) expression, which is of established importance in prostate cancer initiation and progression. We re-examined the expression patterns of AR within adult prostate epithelial differentiation using an optimised sensitive and specific approach examining transcript, protein and AR regulated gene expression. Highly enriched populations were isolated consisting of stem (α(2)β(1)(HI) CD133(+VE)), transiently amplifying (α(2)β(1)(HI) CD133(-VE)) and terminally differentiated (α(2)β(1)(LOW) CD133(-VE)) cells. AR transcript and protein expression was confirmed in α(2)β(1)(HI) CD133(+VE) and CD133(-VE) progenitor cells. Flow cytometry confirmed that median (±SD) fraction of cells expressing AR were 77% (±6%) in α(2)β(1)(HI) CD133(+VE) stem cells and 68% (±12%) in α(2)β(1)(HI) CD133(-VE) transiently amplifying cells. However, 3-fold lower levels of total AR protein expression (peak and median immunofluorescence) were present in α(2)β(1)(HI) CD133(+VE) stem cells compared with differentiated cells. This finding was confirmed with dual immunostaining of prostate sections for AR and CD133, which again demonstrated low levels of AR within basal CD133(+VE) cells. Activity of the AR was confirmed in prostate progenitor cells by the expression of low levels of the AR regulated genes PSA, KLK2 and TMPRSS2. The confirmation of AR expression in prostate progenitor cells allows integration of the cancer stem cell theory with the established models of prostate cancer initiation based on a functional AR. Further study of specific AR functions in prostate stem and differentiated cells may highlight novel mechanisms of prostate homeostasis and insights into tumourigenesis
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