Jellyfish as vectors of bacterial disease for farmed salmon (Salmo salar).

Swarms or blooms of jellyfish are increasingly problematic and can result in high mortality rates of farmed fish. Small species of jellyfish, such as Phialella quadrata (13 mm in diameter), are capable of passing through the mesh of sea cages and being sucked into the mouth of fish during respiration. Results of the current study show that the initial damage to gills of farmed Atlantic salmon, likely produced by nematocyst-derived toxins from the jellyfish, was compounded by secondary bacterial infection with Tenacibaculum maritimum.

Bis(mu-2-cyanopyridine-N:N')bis[(2-cyanopyridine-N)silver(I)] bis(tetrafluoroborate): an anion-linked molecular ladder.

In the title compound, [Ag(2)(C(6)H(4)N(2))(4)](BF(4))(2), the Ag(I) cations adopt distorted trigonal-planar coordination geometries. The Ag(I) centres are linked via two bridging 2-cyanopyridine ligands to give a centrosymmetric dinuclear complex in which the Ag(I) coordination environment is completed by monodentate non-bridging 2-cyanopyridine ligands. Bridging Ag.

The control of bovine virus diarrhoea virus in Shetland.

A scheme to control and eradicate bovine virus diarrhoea (BVD) was initiated in 1994 in the Shetland Islands by local veterinary surgeons and funded by the Shetland Islands Council and Shetland Enterprise Company. Over a 3-year period every bovine animal on the islands was blood-sampled (heparinised) and laboratory tested using MAb-based ELISAs for BVD virus antibody and antigen detection for evidence of disease. A number of BVD virus positive animals (40) were found and culled.

Methods for studying aquatic bacteriophage ecology.

Methods are described for enumerating the different kinds of bacteriophage present in virus concentrates prepared from 120 liters of water. Although developed specifically for use with coliphages, they should be applicable to viruses infecting other hosts. These methods involve mixed indicators, equilibrium buoyant-density centrifugation, use of enzymes or inhibitors or both, and specific hybridization probes, either alone or in combination.

Availability of monovalent and divalent cations within intact chloroplasts for the action of ionophores nigericin and A23187.

1. A23187 will uncouple electron transport by broken chloroplasts in a divalent cation dependent manner provided that they have been treated with a low concentration of EDTA. 2.