Age and Growth of the Indian Squid, : Analysis of Statolith Microstructure and Length Frequency Data.

Understanding the age and development of a species provides knowledge about its longevity and growth, which are crucial in assessing its life history to maintain the sustainability of its fisheries. Over 3000 samples of were collected from trawl catches off Concepcion, Iloilo, Western Visayas, Philippines, from April 2018 to September 2019. Daily rings in the statoliths were used to determine their age.

Fungal diversity of mangrove-associated sponges from New Washington, Aklan, Philippines.

Sponge-associated fungi are the least explored marine fungal groups. It is only in recent years that fungal symbionts of marine sponges have received attention mainly due to the isolation of bioactive metabolites while not much attention was given to their specificity, biogeography and exact roles in marine sponges. The diversity of fungi associated with mangrove sponges ( sp.

Assessment of coastal turbidity improvement potential by terrigenous sediment load reduction and its implications on seagrass inhabitable area in Banate Bay, central Philippines.

This paper demonstrates the effects of terrigenous sediment load reduction by watershed managements on coastal turbidity in Banate Bay, Iloilo located in central Philippines, using field observations and numerical simulations. Measurements of the total suspended solid and particulate organic carbon indicated that the bulk component of the coastal turbidity comprised terrigenous mineral particles rather than phytoplankton at the rise of the river after heavy rain. The suspended sediment concentration and underwater light intensity were simulated by an atmosphere-watershed-coastal ocean model to investigate the contribution of the terrigenous sediment load to the coastal turbidity in rainy season.

The Kuroshio current influences genetic diversity and population genetic structure of a tropical seagrass, Enhalus acoroides.

Information on genetic diversity and differentiation of seagrass populations is essential for the conservation of coastal ecosystems. However, little is known about the seagrasses in the Indo-West Pacific Ocean, where the world's highest diversity of seagrasses occurs. The influence of sea currents on these populations is also unknown.

Development of 10 novel polymorphic microsatellite markers for the Indo-Pacific horned starfish, Protoreaster nodosus.

Ten novel polymorphic nuclear microsatellite simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers were isolated from an Indo-Pacific horned starfish, Protoreaster nodosus. The isolated SSR markers provided polymorphisms of 2-9 alleles per locus in three populations obtained from Indonesia and the Philippines. The expected and observed heterozygosities ranged from 0.