| discrimination of all members of the anopheles punctulatus complex by polymerase chain reaction--restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis. | a method has been developed to identify the members of the anopheles punctulatus complex using polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism (pcr-rflp). members of the an. punctulatus complex are the most important vectors of malaria in the southwest pacific and consist of 10 cryptic species, an. farauti no. 1-7, an. punctulatus, an. sp. near punctulatus, and an. koliensis. for each species, pcr amplification of the ribosomal dna internal transcribed spacer produced a 750-ba ... | 1995 | 7485705 |
| minor steroidal alkaloids from the marine sponge corticium sp. | four new steroidal alkaloids, plakinamine g (1), plakinamine h (2), 4alpha-hydroxydemethylplakinamine b (3), and tetrahydroplakinamine a (4), along with three known compounds, were isolated from the marine sponge corticium sp. the structures of these metabolites were elucidated largely by 1d and 2d nmr methods and accurate mass measurements (hr-eims). compounds 1, 2, and 4 show significant in vitro cytotoxicity. | 2002 | 12193035 |
| antiplasmodial activities of homogentisic acid derivative protein kinase inhibitors isolated from a vanuatu marine sponge pseudoceratina sp. | as part of our search for new antimalarial drugs in south pacific marine sponges, we have looked for inhibitors of pfnek-1, a specific protein kinase of plasmodium falciparum. on the basis of promising activity in a preliminary screening, the ethanolic crude extract of a new species of pseudoceratina collected in vanuatu was selected for further investigation. a bioassay-guided fractionation led to the isolation of a derivative of homogentisic acid [methyl (2,4-dibromo-3,6-dihydroxyphenyl)acetat ... | 2009 | 20098604 |
| a review of traditional remedies of ciguatera fish poisoning in the pacific. | ciguatera fish poisoning (cfp) is an illness caused by eating tropical coral fish contaminated with ciguatoxins (ctxs). the clinical management of patients with cfp is generally supportive and symptomatic in nature as no antidote exists. of the many drugs prescribed, several have been claimed to be efficient in small, uncontrolled studies, but the outcomes of treatments with these medicines are often contradictory. in new caledonia, traditional remedies are commonly employed in the treatment of ... | 2011 | 21287650 |
| genetic mutations in plasmodium falciparum and plasmodium vivax dihydrofolate reductase (dhfr) and dihydropteroate synthase (dhps) in vanuatu and solomon islands prior to the introduction of artemisinin combination therapy. | plasmodium falciparum and plasmodium vivax are endemic in vanuatu and the solomon islands. while both countries have introduced artemether-lumefantrine (al) as first-line therapy for both p. falciparum and p. vivax since 2008, chloroquine and sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine (sp) were used as first-line therapy for many years prior to the introduction of al. limited data are available on the extent of sp resistance at the time of policy change. | 2014 | 25311473 |
| two new deep-sea stalked barnacles, arcoscalpellum epeeum sp. nov. and gymnoscalpellum indopacificum sp. nov., from the coral sea, with descriptions of the penis in gymnoscalpellum dwarf males. | the present study describes a new species of arcoscalpellum hoek, 1907, and a new species of gymnoscalpellum newman & ross, 1971, collected by deep-sea expeditions led by the muséum national d'histoire naturelle (paris) in the coral sea off new caledonia, papua new guinea (png), the solomon islands and vanuatu. arcoscalpellum epeeum sp. nov. differs from all described species of arcoscalpellum by the presence of a long, sharp, sword-shaped carina, which extends beyond the apices of the terga by ... | 2014 | 25283658 |
| lepidapedon sereti n. sp. (digenea: lepidapedidae) in coelorinchus sereti (gadiformes: macrouridae) from deep waters off vanuatu. | lepidapedon sereti n. sp. is described from the macrourid coelorinchus sereti from the deep water off vanuatu. it is placed in the elongatum group and elongatum subgroup. it differs from the other species described in this subgroup by the distinctly dorsally subterminal excretory pore. it also differs from other species in combinations of size, excretory vesicle length, proportions of forebody, post-testicular region and other metric features. this constitutes the first record of a lepidapedon ( ... | 2013 | 24197744 |
| a tale of two chitons: is habitat specialisation linked to distinct associated bacterial communities? | although most chitons (mollusca: polyplacophora) are shallow-water molluscs, diverse species also occur in deep-sea habitats. we investigated the feeding strategies of two species, leptochiton boucheti and nierstraszella lineata, recovered on sunken wood sampled in the western pacific, close to the vanuatu islands. the two species display distinctly different associations with bacterial partners. leptochiton boucheti harbours mollicutes in regions of its gut epithelium and has no abundant bacter ... | 2013 | 22988940 |
| proctophantastes nettastomatis (digenea: zoogonidae) from vanuatu deep-sea fish: new morphological features, allometric growth, and phenotypic plasticity aspects. | the present paper deals with proctophantastes nettastomatis (digenea: zoogonidae; lepidophyllinae) found in the intestine of three species of deep-sea fish, dicrolene longimana (ophidiidae, ophidiiformes), bathyuroconger sp. (congridae, anguilliformes), and venefica tentaculata (nettastomatidae, anguilliformes). the fish were collected near the islands of espiritu santo, erromango, and epi, respectively, in the archipelago of vanuatu (southern pacific ocean) at depths ranging from 561 to 990 m. ... | 2012 | 22089085 |
| a new species of falcaustra (nematoda: kathlaniidae) in nactus pelagicus (squamata: gekkonidae) from tanna island, vanuatu. | falcaustra tannaensis n. sp. (ascaridida: kathlaniidae) from the large intestine of nactus pelagicus (squamata: gekkonidae) is described and illustrated. falcaustra tannaensis represents the first species from oceanica to be assigned to the genus and is distinguished from other species of falcaustra by the distribution pattern of caudal papillae (8 precloacal, 2 adcloacal, 10 postcloacal, and 1 median), length of spicules (2.43-2.68 mm), and presence of a pseudosucker. | 2010 | 20469950 |
| proctophantastes brayi, n. sp. (digenea: zoogonidae) parasite of the deep-sea fish polymixia lowe, 1838 from vanuatu. | proctophantastes brayi n. sp. (digenea: zoogonidae; lepidophyllinae) has been found in the intestine of two species of deep-sea fish polymixia (silver eye fish) near the island of erromango in vanuatu at a depth ranging from 720 to 830 m. specimen whole mounts, histological and scanning electron microscopy preparations showed that p. brayi differs from the five known species of the genus proctophantastes (p. abyssorum, p. gillissi, p. glandulosum, p. infundibulum and p. nettastomatis) by the fol ... | 2008 | 17692563 |
| a new cycloamphilectene metabolite from the vanuatu sponge axinella sp. | a new diterpene, n-formyl-7-amino-11-cycloamphilectene (1), was isolated from the apolar extract of the vanuatu sponge axinella sp. the structure and relative stereochemistry were established by spectroscopic and single-crystal x-ray studies. | 2002 | 12193036 |
| lecithochirium lycodontis n. sp., trematode from the moray eel on the new hebrides. | | 1953 | 13097286 |
| three new species of squat lobsters of the genus <i>fennerogalathea</i> baba, 1988 (decapoda: galatheidae) from the pacific ocean. | the genus fennerogalathea baba, 1988 was known to contain two species: f. chacei baba, 1988, the type species, from the philippines, taiwan and indonesia and f. chirostyloides tirmizi & javed, 1993 from the bay of bengal. in the present study, three new species of the genus are described and illustrated: f. chani n. sp. from papua new guinea, f. cultrata n. sp. from new caledonia and vanuatu and f. ensifera n. sp. from fiji. the new species are morphologically distinguishable on the basis of the ... | 2017 | 28610215 |