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Assessment of water bodies of united arab emirates coastal sabkhas as potential sites for natural salinity gradient solar ponds

Howari, F. M.; Sadooni, F. N.; Goodell, P. C. ( ASCE - American Society of Civil Engineers , 2008 , Article)

Increasing population and growing demands from both agriculture and industry in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) necessitate the need to provide inexpensive fresh water. The only feasible source of such water is desalination. ...

Engineering of mutants of Anabaena PCC7120 (cyanobacterium) constructed by DNA-plasmid transfer and UV-radiation resistant to the herbicide Diuron capable of ammonia production

Mahasneh, I.A.K.; Tiwari, D.N.; Al-Thani, R.F.; Qandeel, M. ( Elfos Scientiae , Cuba , 2004 , Article)

Ten mutants of Anabaena PCC7120 were successfully constructed to express two genetic traits, ammonia production and the resistance to the Diuron herbicide, using transposon induced mutagenesis and UV-radiation. The ranges ...

Competition, facilitation, and niche differentiation in two foliar pathogens

Al-Naimi, F.A.; Garrett, K.A.; Bockus, William W. ( Springer Berlin / Heidelberg , 2004 , Article)

We studied competition between the obligate biotroph Puccinia triticina (designated here as Puccinia) and the facultative saprophyte Pyrenophora tritici-repentis (designated here as Pyrenophora) in older and younger leaves ...

Knockout mice: Is it just genetics? Effect of enriched housing on fibulin-4+/- mice

Cudilo, Elizabeth; Al Naemi, Hamda; Marmorstein, Lihua; Baldwin, Ann L. ( Public Library of Science , 2007 , Article)

Background. Fibulin-4 is an extracellular matrix protein expressed by vascular smooth muscle cells that is essential for maintaining arterial integrity. Fibulin-4-/- mice die just before birth due to arterial hemorrhage, ...

Preliminary Survey on Parasites Infecting Some Amphibian and Reptilian Species from United Arab Emirates and Qatar

Kardousha, Mahmoud M. [محمود محمود محمد كردوشة] ( Qatar University , 2002 , Article)

The common amphibian toad Bufo orientalis and four species of reptiles (Scincus muscatensis, Mabuya brevicolis, Uromastyx microlepis and Diplometopon zarudnyi) were collected from five localities in the United Arab Emirates ...

Helminth parasite larvae collected from Arabian Gulf Fish. 4. description of 4 larvae including two metacercarae, one didymozoid and one acanthocephalan from Emirati coasts

Kardousha, Mahmoud Mahmoud ( Arabian Gulf University , 2005 , Article)

Four hilminth larvae from different fish hosts caught from Emirati coasts are described. Two are metacercariae related to genus Stephanostomum, type (I) and (II). Type (I) was found encycsted in body cavities of the Indian ...

Monogenea of Arabian Gulf fishes. 3. Encotyllabe spari and E. kuwaitensis (Capsalidae) from Qatari waters

Kardousha, M.M.; Al-Ansi, M.A.; Al-Khayat, J.A. ( Instituto di Parassitologia Medica , 2002 , Article)

Two species of monogenea of the subfamily Encotyllabinae, genus Encotyllabe were observed from Qatari fishes which collected between March and May, 2002 from 5 Khors of Qatari coastal line; Al-Odaid, al-Dhakhira, Ras Rakan, ...

Redesciption of Ten species of digenetic trematodes from marine fish of Emirati coastsof the Arabian Gulf

Kardousha, Mahmoud ( Arab Bureau of Education for the Gulf States , 2003 , Article)

Ten species of digenetic trematodes are fully described from fishes of the United Arab Emirates. These specimens, which have been previously described in a list which comprised different helminth fauna, commonly infest ...

Helminth parasite larvae collected from Arabian Gulf fish III. first report on genus Dasyrhynchs Pintner 1928 (Cestoda: Trypanorhyncha) with a key depending on morphology of plerocercoid larva

Kardousha, Mahmoud ( Universita Di Messina, Istituto Di Parassitologia Medica , 2003 , Article)

Two trypanorhynchan cestode larvae related to genus Dasyrhynchus are reported for the first time from Emirati coastal waters, Arabian Gulf. The first is Dasyhynchus sp. collected as encysted. larvae from body cavity of ...

First record of microsporedean and myxosporeans (Protozoa) infecting some Arabian Gulf fish off the coasts of Emirates and Qatar with a description Myxobolus arabicus n.sp

Kardousha, M.; El-Tantawy, S. ( Arabian Gulf University , 2002 , Article)

During a comprehensive survey carried out on helminth parasites of Arabian Gulf fishes mainly from the coasts of the Emirates and Qatar, two microsporeans and three myxosporeans Protozoa were reported and described for the ...