Physics

1. Mass transport of a mesoscale eddy in the South China Sea identif ied by a simulated passive tracer*
2. The characteristics of spontaneous near-inertial wave generation from an anticyclonic mesoscale eddy*
3. Relative contributions of temperature and salinity to steric sea level over the South China Sea*
4. Tidal currents in the coastal waters east of Hainan Island in winter*
5. A new oil spill detection algorithm based on Dempster-Shafer evidence theory*
6. A new Doppler frequency anomaly algorithm for surface current measurement with SAR*
7. Identif ication of Antarctic minke and killer whales with passive acoustic monitoring in Prydz Bay, Antarctica*

Geology

1. Detrital zircon U-Pb age perspective on the sediment provenance and its geological signif icance of sandstones in the Lamandau region, SW Borneo, Indonesia*

Chemistry

1. Eff ects of dissolved oxygen and nutrients from the Kuroshio on hypoxia off the Changjiang River estuary*
2. Methane in the Yellow Sea and East China Sea: dynamics,distribution, and production*
3. Interannual variability of dimethylsulf ide in the Yellow Sea*

Ecology

1. Quantitative proteomics provides insight into the response of the marine dinof lagellate Prorocentrum donghaiense to changes in ambient phosphorus*
2. Diversity and seasonal variation of marine phytoplankton in Jiaozhou Bay, China revealed by morphological observation and metabarcoding*
3. Distribution and phenogenetic diversity of Synechococcus in the Bohai Sea, China*
4. Contrasting vertical distribution between prokaryotes and fungi in diff erent water masses on the Ninety-East Ridge,Southern Indian Ocean*

Continued from the back cover

1. Impact of ocean acidif ication on physiology and microbiota in hepatopancreas of Pacif ic oyster Crassostrea gigas*
2. Determination of trophic levels of marine f ish in the Yellow Sea and northern East China Sea using nitrogen stable isotope(δ 15 N) analysis of otoliths*

Biology

1. Physiological and histological responses of Phascolosoma esculenta (Sipuncula: Phascolosomatidea) to acute heat stress*
2. A genome-wide analysis of the chloroplast N ADH dehydrogenase- like genes in Zostera marina*
3. Screening and characterization of proteases produced by deep-sea cold seep bacteria*
4. The phycocyanin-chlorophyll-protein complexes isolated from Chroomonas placoidea*
5. Dinophysoid dinof lagellates from subphotic depths:Amphisolenia sp. aff . brevicauda, Dinofurcula tricornuta sp. nov., and Dinophysis profunda sp. nov. (Dinophysales,Dinophyceae)*
6. Morphological and phylogenetic analysis of a new Melosira species and revision of freshwater Melosira in China*
7. Phylogenetic, evolutionary, and biogeographic origin of the genus Sheathia (Batrachospermales, Rhodophyta)*

Aquaculture and Fisheries

1. Transcriptome of hepatopancreas in kuruma shrimp Marsupenaeus japonicus under low-salinity stress*
2. Transcriptome of Eriocheir sinensis under air exposure*
3. Longitudinal genetic analysis of growth-related traits in red swamp crayf ish Procambarus clarkii (Girard)*
4. Two bicistronic DNA vaccines against Vibrio anguillarum and the immune eff ects on f lounder Paralichthys olivaceus*
5. Replacing f ishmeal with soybean meal aff ects survival,antioxidant capacity, intestinal microbiota, and mRNA expression of TOR and S6K1 in Macrobrachium rosenbergii*
6. Early life migration and population discrimination of the small yellow croaker Larimichthys polyactis from the Yellow Sea: inferences from otolith Sr/Ca ratios*