Browsing NSIS Volume 43, Part 1 by Title

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  • Occurrence of the Swamp Lymnaea, Lymnaea Stagnalis (Gastropoda: Pulmonata) in Atlantic Canada 

    McAlpine, Donald F.; Hughes, Liam C.; Alexander, Arianne (Nova Scotian Institute of Science, 2005)
    The occurrence of the swamp lymnaea, Lymnaea stagnalis (linnaeus 1758). a large, distinctive, pulmonate snail, has been documented in Atlantic Canada for the first time. It is unclear if the populations reported here are ...

  • President's Report: Session 2003-2004 

    McCulloch, Archie (Nova Scotian Institute of Science, 2005)

  • The Prion 

    Gibbons, Paul (Nova Scotian Institute of Science, 2005)
    Transmissible spongifonn encephalopathies (TSE) have been documented in livestock for centuries but the nature of the putative causative agent as a contagious, mutant form of a host-encoded protein is a very recent discovery ...

  • A Retrospective: Three Quarters of a Century at the Halifax Fisheries Research Laboratory 

    Stewart, James E.; Safer, Andrew (Nova Scotian Institute of Science, 2005)
    In 1925 a Fisheries Technological Program was begun in temporary quarters on the Halifax waterfront to provide scientific research and technical assistance to improve the handling, processing and quality of fisheries ...