The Role of Aquaculture in Shaping the Morphology of : A Comparative Study of Cultured and Wild Populations.

Background: With the rapid expansion of aquaculture, the impact of rearing environments on the morphological characteristics of marine species has become a critical research focus. This study investigates the morphological differences between wild and cultured populations of , a commercially valuable marine mollusk, to understand how aquaculture environments influence morphological traits.

Objective: The study aims to evaluate the morphological variance between wild and cultured populations using multivariate statistical techniques and to analyze the ecological implications of these differences.

Microbial community structure of soils in Bamenwan mangrove wetland.

Microbial community diversity and composition are important for the maintenance of mangrove ecosystem. Bacterial and archaeal community composition of the Bamenwan Mangrove Wetland soil in Hainan, China, was determined using pyrosequencing technique. Bacterial community composition presented differences among the five soil samples.

[Element composition in the statoliths of Sthenoteuthis oualaniensis squid in Xisha islands waters of South China Sea].

Sthenoteuthis oualaniensis is the most important cephalopods fishery resource of the South China Sea, which supported the falling-net fishery of Guangdong, Guangxi and Hainan Provinces of China. Understanding the fisheries biology is essential for sustainable exploitation and management of this squid. Statolith is one of the most important hard tissues of cephalopods which were widely used in the research of fisheries biology and ecology.