RNA interference has emerged as a powerful tool for rapid analysis of gene function in non-model organisms and has the potential to identify candidate targets for interventions against diseases of economic importance to aquaculture. The main purpose of the study was to use functional and comparative...

Sea cucumbers are prolific producers of a wide range of bioactive compounds, which are potential sources of agrichemical, nutraceutical, pharmaceutical and cosmeceutical products. Sea cucumbers expel their internal organs as a defence mechanism called evisceration. We hypothesize that the reason for...

This project allowed Mr Vinh Dang to carry out two research trips in Australian Animal Health Laboratory (AAHL), Geelong, under the joint supervision of Dr Kirsten Benkendorff, Dr Peter Speck and Dr Mark Crane. Both trips lasted for three weeks, the first one in October 2010 and the second one in...