Alireza Asem

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The genus Artemia Leach, 1819 is a cosmopolitan halophilic crustacean, consisting of bisexual species and obligate parthenogenetic populations. Asia is rich in Artemia biodiversity. More than 530 Artemia sites have been recorded from this area and more than 20 species/subspecies/variety names have been used for them. There exist various problems in...
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Species of Artemia are regionally endemic branchiopod crustaceans composed of sexual species and parthenogenetic lineages, and represent an excellent model for studying adaptation and speciation to extreme and heterogeneous hypersaline environments. We tested hypotheses of whether populations from the Tibetan Plateau belong to A. tibetiana Abatzopo...
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Parthenogenesis is an asexual reproduction mode characterized by the development of a female oocyte without fertilization. From an evolutionary perspective, parthenogenesis seems less successful than the predominant sexual mode, though there are groups in which both reproductive types exist, an example of which is the genus Artemia Leach, 1819. Thi...
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Species are fundamental units of nature that need proper identification in order to assess and conserve biodiversity. Artemia is a model crustacean for population analysis and comparison in regionally endemic sexual species and parthenogenetic lineages distributed in hypersaline lakes, lagoons, and solar saltworks scattered in arid and semi-arid ar...
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In light of the pivotal role of Artemia Leach, 1819 as food in larviculture and fisheries, it becomes imperative to continually reassess its resources and deepen our understanding of its species diversity. Such efforts are essential for the effective management of its commercial exploitation and the promotion of sustainable aquaculture activities....
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Brine shrimp Artemia are extremophile invertebrates with unique adaptations to cope with hypersaline lakes. The genus comprises sexual species and parthenogenetic lineages with different ploidies, and populations exhibit an island biogeography dispersal model and accelerated molecular evolution due to the mutagenic effect of ionic strength variance...
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Hypersaline lakes in arid and semi-arid areas are unique ecosystems that harbor unique extremophile organisms, such as Artemia, the paradigmatic example of adaptation to harsh living conditions. We assessed the mitogenomic biodiversity of Artemia species from the Tibetan Plateau, China, a remote and yet minimally disturbed ecosystem with a variety...
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This note is to specify a correction to the above mentioned paper that recently appeared in: Crustaceana, 95(5-6): 585-592. DOI: 10.1163/15685403-bja10207 In this study, Artemia DNAs from Great Salt Lake (Utah, U.S.A.) were extracted using a cyst batch collected in 2002, which was registered at the cyst bank of the Artemia Reference Center (Ghent...
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In this study, we sequenced and characterized the complete mitochondrial genome (mitogenome) of Quasilineus sinicus Gibson, 1990 (Heteronemertea, Nemertea) using Illumina sequencing technology. The circular mitogenome was 16,358 bp in length and comprised 22 transfer RNA genes, 13 protein-coding genes, and two ribosomal RNA genes. Its overall base...
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Due to the lack of a taxonomic key for the identification of Artemia species, molecular markers have been increasingly used for phylogenetic studies. The mt COI marker is a regularly considered marker for the molecular systematics of Artemia populations. The proposed universal and specific primers have mostly failed to amplify the Artemia aff. sini...
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Artemia is the most common live food that is used in aquaculture worldwide. This study reportson biometrical variation in the cysts of the introduced, originally American Artemia franciscanafrom 24 non-native localities and two native habitats, in Asia and the U.S.A., respectively. Theresults show, that the largest diameter of untreated cysts, the...
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Due to the lack of a taxonomic key for the identification of Artemia species, molecular markers have been increasingly used for phylogenetic studies. The mtCOI marker is a regularly considered marker for the molecular systematics of Artemia populations. The proposed universal and specific primers have mostly failed to amplify the Artemia aff. sinic...
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Artemia is the most common live food which is used in aquaculture worldwide. This study reports on biometrical variation of introduced American Artemia franciscana cyst from 24 non-native localities and two native habitats in Asia and USA, respectively. Results showed the largest diameter of untreated cyst, diameter of decapsulated cyst and thicker...
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It is well concluded that microbial composition and diversity of coral species can be affected under temperature alterations. However, the interaction of environmental accumulation of corals and temperature stress on symbiotic Symbiodiniaceae and bacterial communities are rarely studied. In this study, two groups of soft coral Sarcophyton trochelio...
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Artemia franciscana, native to America, has recently colonized as non-indigenous population in Asia, Europe, North Africa, and Australia. We evaluated the effects of the colonization of A. franciscana on genetic differentiation in new environments in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). We used the COI marker to determine the genetic structure and origi...
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Artemia franciscana, native to America, has recently colonized as non-indigenous population in Asia, Europe, North Africa, and Australia. We evaluated the effects of the colonization of A. franciscana on genetic differentiation in new environments in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). We used the COI marker to determine the genetic structure and origi...
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Coral Symbiodiniaceae and bacteria maintain a symbiotic relationship that is essential for coral survival. The symbiotic communities component in the polyps host could affect coral resistance and the ability to recover from stress. In this study, we increased the cultured range temperature (26 ± 1 ℃) of Sarcophyton trocheliophorum and Euphyllia anc...
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Changes in the microbial community associated with environmental impacts can lead to opportunistic infections, coral disease and death. Diversity analysis and community comparison were performed on 23 collected soft Coral specimens from South China See surrounding Hainan Province (China) based on Illumina MiSeq sequencing. The results showed that P...
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In the previously published mitochondrial genome sequence of Artemia urmiana (NC_021382 [JQ975176]), the taxonomic status of the examined Artemia had not been determined, due to parthenogenetic populations coexisting with A. urmiana in Urmia Lake. Additionally, NC_021382 [JQ975176] has been obtained with pooled cysts of Artemia (0.25 g cysts consis...
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Artemia franciscana, native to America, has recently colonized non-indigenous populations in Eurasia, Mediterranean regions and Australia. In present we sought to evaluate the potential effects of colonization of A. franciscana on genetic differentiation in the new environments in UAE. We used the COI marker to determine population genetic structur...
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Due to the rapid developments in the aquaculture industry, Artemia franciscana, originally an American species, has been introduced to Eurasia, Africa and Australia. In the present study, we used a partial sequence of the mitochondrial DNA Cytochrome Oxidase subunit I (mt-DNA COI) gene and genomic fingerprinting by Inter-Simple Sequence Repeats (IS...
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Apis mellifera scutellata and A.m. capensis, two native subspecies of western honey bees in the Republic of South Africa (RSA), are important to beekeepers in their native region because beekeepers use these bees for honey production and pollination purposes. Additionally, both bees are important invasive pests outside of their native ranges. Recen...
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The complete mitochondrial genome of Sarcophyton trocheliophorum was completed using next-generation sequencing (NGS) method. The mitochondrial genome is a circular molecule of 18,508 bp in length, containing 14 protein-coding genes, two ribosomal RNA genes and one transfer RNA gene (Met-tRNA). The base composition is 30.45% A, 16.03% C, 19.13% G,...
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The mitochondrial genome of Sinularia maxima was completed using next-generation sequencing (NGS) method. The mitochondrial genome is a circular molecule of 18,730 bp in length. The gene arrangements include 14 protein-coding genes (PCGs), 2 ribosomal RNA genes, and 1 tRNA (tRNA-Met). The base composition is 30.18% A, 16.47% C, 19.35% G, and 33.99%...
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Urmia Lake, the largest natural habitat of the brine shrimp Artemia urmiana, has progressively desiccated over the last two decades, resulting in a loss of 80% of its surface area and producing thousands of hectares of arid salty land. This ecological crisis has seriously affected the lake's native biodiversity. Artemia urmiana has lost more than 9...
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The brine shrimp Artemia exhibits two reproductive modes. 1). oviparity, producing diapause embryos; an. 2). ovoviviparity, producing free-swimming nauplii. Previous studies have suggested the existence of a critical stage that determines the reproductive mode. Physicochemical factors, such as photoperiod, temperature, and salinity, have been sugge...
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Native American Artemia franciscana has become an introduced species in the Old World due to the rapid development of the aquaculture industry in Eurasia. The recent colonisation of A. franciscana in Mediterranean regions and Asia has been well documented, but Australia is a continent where the dispersal of this species is not well understood. In t...
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The taxonomic identity of an unknown Artemia population inhabiting the Al Wathba Wetland Reserve in Abu Dhabi, U.A.E., was determined using phylogenetic analysis of the mitochondrial marker Cytochrome Oxidase Subunit 1 ( COI ). The results showed that the examined population belongs to an exotic invasive species, Artemia franciscana . Based on the...
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The quality of Artemia cysts size can be determined by biometrical characterization. In this study, the combined effects of salinity and ferric citrate were studied on the biometric characterization of Artemia by single clonal reproduction under the laboratory condition. Results of control treatment showed increasing of the salinity correlates...
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The complete mitochondrial genome of Sinularia ceramensis was completed using next-generation sequencing (NGS) method. The mitochondrial genome is a circular molecule of 18,740 bp in length. The gene arrangements including 14 protein-coding genes (PCGs), 2 rRNAs, and 1 tRNA (tRNA-Met). The base composition is 30.26% A, 16.44% C, 16.35% G, and 33.95...
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The complete mitochondrial genome of Artemia sinica was obtained using the next-generation sequencing (NGS) method. The mitochondrial genome is a circular molecule of 15,689 bp in length, with the typical structure of 13 protein-coding genes (PCGs), 22 transfer RNA genes (tRNAs) and 2 ribosomal RNA genes, and a non-coding control region (CR). The b...
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Malformations of crustaceans have been observed in their natural habitats as well as in laboratory studies. Two patterns of morphological abnormalities have been recorded in species of the brine shrimp genus Artemia, including a gynandromorphic pattern and a specimen with three compound eyes. Here we report a hitherto unknown pattern of morphologic...
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The complete mitochondrial genome of Solegnathus hardwickii was determined to be 16,519 bp long circular molecule with a typical gene arrangement of vertebrate mitochondrial. The complete mitochondrial genomes were obtained by conventional and long PCR. Tree constructed using maximum likelihood based on protein-coding genes and ribosomal RNAs showe...
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The complete mitochondrial genome of the Asian river pipefish Doryichthys boaja was sequenced. The mitochondrial genome is a circular molecule of 16,439 bp in length, containing 37 mitochondrial genes and a control region. The base composition is 31.03% A, 24.22% C, 14.44% G, and 30.32% T, with an A + T content of 61.35%. All PCGs were initiated by...
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This is the first study on phylogenetic relationships in the genus Artemia Leach, 1819 using the pattern and sequence of secondary structures of internal transcribed spacer 1 (ITS1). Significant intraspecific variation in the secondary structure of ITS1 rRNA was found in Artemia tibetiana. In the phylogenetic tree based on joined primary and second...
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Coupled effects of photoperiod, temperature and salinity on diapause induction were experimentally studied using a diploid clone of the parthenogenetic Artemia from Barkol Lake, Xinjiang, China. We conducted three experiments, each containing nine treatments (combinations of two of the above three factors, each with three levels). When photoperiod...
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Males that present infrequently in parthenogenetic Artemia are commonly called “rare males”. By rearing cloned parthenogenetic Artemia in the laboratory, the frequency of rare males was observed for seven Artemia populations with different ploidy compositions. The results showed that the values of the male:female ratio varied from 0.53:1000 to 1.40...
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Using two nuclear (ITS1 and Na+/K+ ATPase) and three mitochondrial (COI, 16S and 12S) markers, we determined the genetic variation and evolutionary relationship of parthenogenetic and bisexual Artemia. Our analyses revealed that mitochondrial genes had higher genetic variation than nuclear genes and that the 16S showed more variety than the other m...
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The brine shrimp Artemia urmiana, an abundant inhabitant of the hypersaline Urmia Lake in northwestern Iran, has recently been described from Lake Koyashskoe, also a shallow hypersaline lake that is located on the Black Sea coast of the Crimean Peninsula (Ukraine). This discovery has questioned the endemicity of A. urmiana in Urmia Lake and has als...
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Urmia Lake, an endorheic salt lake in northwestern Iran, was registered in the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands as a wetland of international importance, also a UNESCO biosphere reserve. In this review, we have updated our last checklist in 2014 with available information on the biodiversity of the lake.
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The Astacus leptodactylus specimens were collected from four sites of Aras reservoir, North-West of Iran and examined for the epibionts during 2009. Protozoan epibionts from ciliophora (one genus and seven species) and tracheophyta were isolated from the cuticular surface of different body parts of narrow-claw crayfish, A.leptodactylus. Seasonal pr...
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The Astacus leptodactylus specimens were collected from four sites of Aras reservoir, NorthWest of Iran and examined for the epibionts during 2009. Protozoan epibionts from ciliophora (one genus and seven species) and tracheophyta were isolated from the cuticular surface of different body parts of narrow-claw crayfish, A.leptodactylus. Seasonal pre...
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The cysts of nine Chinese populations of parthenogenetic Artemia were studied by scanning electron microscope. In the 270 cysts examined, 15 different morphological patterns were recognized with most of them not recorded in previous studies and the “tubercled shell surface” being the most common pattern. Results also displayed high intrapopulation...
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This paper reports on biometrical variation of parthenogenetic Artemia cysts from 12 saline lakes and salterns of China. The results showed that the largest diameter of untreated and decapsulated cysts of the studied populations belong to Aqqikkol Lake (325.4 ± 13.7 μm; 301.4 ± 14.2 μm, respectively) and the smallest from Xiaotan Saltern (258.7 ± 1...
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Urmia Lake, with a surface area between 4000 to 6000 km2, is a hypersaline lake located in northwest Iran. It is the saltiest large lake in the world that supports life. Urmia Lake National Park is the home of an almost endemic crustacean species known as the brine shrimp, Artemia urmiana. Other forms of life include several species of algae, bacte...
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Algae are used for many purposes as: food industry, animal feeding, soil enrichment and biodiesel production. Chlorella is widely cultivated from microalgae species as it is rich in nutrients and has its implementation as a healthy food use. In this study, the impact of NaCl salinity on growth, betacarotene, and chlorophyll a of Chlorella sp. has b...
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Occurances of cyanobacterial bloom typically appear in eutrophic lakes which either have been affected by anthropogenic nutrient loading or are naturally rich in nutrients. Microcystis blooms have been reported all over the world in freshwater ecosystems mainly due to increased population which results in increased the waste water production. The a...
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This study examines the relationship between phytoplankton population and some important physicochemical variables in the Bukan Dam Reservoir. The sampling was performed monthly from 8 sampling sites from April 2008 to February 2009. Phytoplankton counts were made by inverted microscope. Totally, 55 phytoplankton taxa were identified and included C...
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The genus Artemia Leach, 1819 is a complex taxon with both sexual species and asexual populations. The asexual populations are considered as biological species "Artemia parthe-nogenetica Barigozzi, 1974" (BROWNE & BOWEN 1991). Since the reproductive mechanism of parthenogenetic Artemia is via parthenogenesis, males are rarly produced among these in...
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The brine shrimp Artemia is important for aquaculture since it is bighly nutritious. It is also used widely in biological studies because it is easy to culture. The aim of the present study is to review the literature on the taxonomical nomenclature of Artemia. The present study indicates the existence of seven species: three living in the Americas...
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In four samples of Artemia urmiana Gunther, 1899 from Urmia Lake, Iran, the following parameters were compared: the diameter of the frontal knobs (right and left), and the respective ratios of that diameter with total body length and head width. The results do not denote significant differences in frontal knob diameter that would agree with similar...
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The brine shrimp Artemia (Crustacea, Anostraca) is an organism of great economical importance in the aquaculture industry (Sorgeloos, 1980a; Bengtson et al., 1991; Sorgeloos et al., 1998, 2001). With a wide distribution all over the world and more than 500 re-ported sites (Abatzopoulos et al., 2002) the brine shrimp stands out as one of the most re...