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Fungal diversity notes 1-110: Taxonomic and phylogenetic contributions to fungal species
(Springer, 2015)
This paper is a compilation of notes on 110 fungal taxa, including one new family, 10 new genera, and 76 new species, representing a wide taxonomic and geographic range The new family, Paradictyoarthriniaceae is introduced ...
Wealth of bioactive molecules from marine bacteria and their applications
(2012)
By the term, "Bioactive molecules" we generally mean a range of compounds produced by living fauna and flora the effect of which tend to improve the status of man�s health, wealth and overall welfare These molecules could ...
Structure and emplacement of the Coastal Deccan tholeiitic dyke swarm in Goa, on the western Indian rifted margin
(2019)
Mafic dyke swarms, when controlled by a regional stress field, are emplaced perpendicular to the minimum principal compressive stress direction. However, mafic dyke swarms may also exploit pre-existing structural fabric in their host rocks. Distinguishing between the two scenarios is important for correct geodynamic understanding of magmatic events. Continental flood basalt provinces such as the Deccan Traps of India represent huge fissure eruptions produced by swarms of mafic dykes. The Coastal dyke swarm of the Deccan, along the western Indian rifted margin, is one of its three major dyke swarms. We present a field study of the Goa dykes, part of the Coastal swarm. The dykes are typical dolerites and basalts exposed in Proterozoic-age basement; lava flows which these dykes may have once fed have been stripped away by erosion, though exposed in the Western Ghats escarpment ~?100�km to the east. The Goa dyke swarm contains 60 dykes, some of which form larger multiple-injection dykes. The dykes are short compared to typical (kilometers or tens of kilometers long) dykes in flood basalt provinces such as the Deccan or Iceland, and range in length from ~?15 to ~?220�m and in thickness from 3�cm to 20�m. Most dykes are vertical and the others dip steeply in various directions. Their structural attributes and internal features (such as vesicular zones and columnar jointing) provide clues to the processes of magma flow and solidification in the dykes. Field measurements yield an average crustal dilation of 8% due to dyke emplacement. Calculations of magmatic overpressures and magma chamber depths generally yield unrealistic values owing to the low aspect ratios of the dykes. Based on comparisons between the dyke trends and the host rock joint trends, we consider that a few of the Goa dykes were emplaced along pre-existing fractures, but the orientations of the great majority of the dykes reflect contemporaneous stress fields. Based on crosscutting relationships, we infer that the regional minimum horizontal compressive stress (?3) changed over time from a ~E-W orientation to a ~NE-SW orientation and finally to a ~N-S direction....
18S rDNA sequencing data of benthic polychaetes from the Eastern Arabian Sea
(Elsevier, 2018)
The limited DNA sequence data of the polychaetes species are available from the Eastern Arabian Sea. We have sequenced 18S rDNA gene from 54 polychaetes species and 37 species identified up to the species level. The DNA ...
An updated checklist of echinoderms of the southeastern Arabian Sea
(Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2018)
The southeastern Arabian Sea (SEAS) is a distinct ecosystem within the northern Indian Ocean, with unique physical, chemical and biological attributes. This paper provides comprehensive documentation on echinoderm diversity ...
Influence of Rainfall Over Eastern Arabian Sea on Its Salinity
(2019)
The west coast of India and the adjoining eastern Arabian Sea (EAS) is one of the high rainfall zones of Indian summer monsoon. The summer monsoon rainfall in this region is about 1,036 km3, which is comparable to the ...
Bioprospection of marine actinomycetes: recent advances, challenges and future perspectives
(2019)
In exploring new sources for economically important products, marine environment draws particular attention because of its remarkable diversity and extreme conditions; it is known to produce metabolic products of great ...
Towards a natural classification and backbone tree for Sordariomycete
(Springer, 2015)
Sordariomycetes is one of the largest classes of Ascomycota and is characterised by perithecial ascomata and inoperculate unitunicate asci The class includes many important plant pathogens, as well as endophytes, saprobes, ...
Robust particle filter formulations with application to terrain-aided navigation
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2017)
The work described in this paper is motivated by the need to develop efficient and robust estimation filters with application to terrainaided navigation of underwater robotic vehicles. One of the main problems addressed ...
Dynamics of size-fractionated phytoplankton biomass in a monsoonal estuary: Patterns and drivers for seasonal and spatial variability
(Elsevier, 2018)
Phytoplankton size-fractionated biomass is an important determinant of the type of food web functioning in aquatic ecosystems. Knowledge about the effect of seasonal salinity gradient on the size-fractionated biomass ...