Vol. 43, No. 6, 2017

Russian Journal of Marine Biology

A simultaneous English language translation of this journal is available from Pleiades Publishing, Ltd.
Distributed worldwide by Springer. Russian Journal of Marine Biology ISSN 1063-0740.

Algology

The Seasonal Dynamics of Cystoseira crinita Duby, 1830 (Fucales: Phaeophyceae)-Dominated Communities in the Northeastern Black Sea

D. F. Afanasyev, A. N. Kamnev, D. V. Seskova and E. G. Sushkova p. 425 abstract

Ichthyology

Morphometric Differences between Two Smelt Species, Hypomesus japonicus (Brevoort, 1856) and H. nipponensis (McAllister, 1963) (Pisces: Osmeridae) from the Northwestern Part of the Sea of Japan

K. T. Vu and Yu. Ph. Kartavtsev p. 436 abstract

Invertebrate Zoology

The Morphology and Microscopic Anatomy of the Deep-Sea Echiurid Protobonellia zenkevitchi Murina, 1976

E. N. Temereva, P. A. Kuznetsov and E. A. Kiseleva p. 447 abstract

Ecology

The Structure and Density of Aggregations of the Hermit Crab Pagurus proximus Komai, 2000 in Epibiosis of the Brown Alga Costaria costata (C. Agardh) De A. Saunders, 1895 in the Sublittoral Zone of Vostok Bay, Sea of Japan

N. I. Selin p. 465 abstract

Biochemistry

A Comparison of the Composition of Wax Ester Molecular Species of Different Coral Groups (Subclasses Hexacorallia and Octocorallia)

T. V. Bosh and P. Q. Long p. 471 abstract

The Influence of an Extract from the Marine Brown Alga Sargassum pallidum on the Metabolic Reactions in the Liver under Experimental Toxic Hepatitis

V. G. Sprygin, N. F. Kushnerova, S. E. Fomenko, E. S. Drugova, L. N. Lesnikova, V. Yu. Merzlyakov and T. V. Momot p. 479 abstract

Microbiology

Serological Detection of Causative Agents of Infectious and Invasive Diseases in the Beluga Whale Delphinapterus leucas (Pallas, 1776) (Cetacea: Monodontidae) from Sakhalinsky Bay

A. Yu. Alekseev, O. V. Shpak, L. S. Adamenko, D. M. Glazov, I. V. Galkina, M. Yu. Schelkanov and A. M. Shestopalov p. 485 abstract

The Phenolic Contents and Antimicrobial Activities of Some Marine Algae from the Mediterranean Sea (Algeria)

Benattouche Zouaoui and Bachir Raho Ghalem p. 491 abstract

Faunistics

Nesting of a Hybrid Pair of the Glaucous-Winged Gull Larus glaucescens Naumann, 1840 and the Slaty-Backed Gull Larus schistisagus Stejneger, 1884 in Magadan

I. V. Dorogoy p. 496 abstract

Evolutionary Genetics

The Lactate Dehydrogenase Gene LDH-C1, a New Molecular Marker for Phylogenetic Analysis of Salmonid Fishes (Salmoniformes: Salmonidae)

A. G. Oleinik, L. A. Skurikhina and A. D. Kukhlevsky p. 499 abstract

Ichthyology

First Biological Data on the Well Established Lessepsian Migrant Fistularia commersonii (Fistulariidae) in the Gulf of Tunis (Central Mediterranean)

Nejla Mouine-Oueslati, Chater Ines, Romdhani Ahlem, Mohamed-Hédi Ktari and Patrice Francour p. 503 abstract