ISBN: 1578080134 9781578080137

Category: Science / Biotechnology

Page count: 320

As part of a series focusing on how marine biotechnology offers possibilities for using marine organisms for restoring degraded ecosystems, protecting public health, and improving seafood production, this volume reviews recent advances in knowledge of the attachment mechanisms of organisms that fashion biofilms; how these films affect biofouling and ship hull corrosion; and the hope of controlling barnacles through neuroregulators. Most of the 13 chapters discuss potential biocontrol applications derived from the antifouling properties of such marine products as dogfish egg cases, zebra mussels, and seagrasses.