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Founded: 1972 ISSN: 0379-5136 CODEN: IJMNBF INDIAN JOURNAL OF GEO-MARINE SCIENCES Volume 44 Number 11 November 2015

CONTENTS

RESEARCH ARTICLES

1669 Nonlinear adaptive path following control of an autonomous surface vehicle: Theory and experiments: Jian Gao & Changxin Liu

1678 Changing Relationship between the Tropical Easterly Jet and the Indian summer Monsoon Rainfall: Role of Indian Ocean Warming: D. Nagarjuna Rao, Gibies George, C. T. Sabeerali, D.A. Ramu & Suryachandra. A. Rao

1684 Heat exchange at the air-sea interface in the Red Sea by equilibrium temperature method: Moaath Hamed Ghanem; Fazal Ahmad and Abdullah Mohammed Al-subhi

1690 Doehlert design for optimization of tin analysis in mussels: study case from Bizerte Lagoon: M. El Ati-Hellal, F. Hellal, & A. Hedhili

1697 Thermodynamic model for hydrothermal sulfide deposition in the paleoproterozoic granite ore system at Malanjkhand, India: Dinesh Pandit

1712 Loss of indigenous brine shrimp Artemia parthenogenetica due to the invasion by American species Artemia franciscana at Thamaraikulam salt pan: Gayathri Valsala, Shiburaj Sugathan & Hari Bharathan

1716 Morphological analysis and molecular phylogeny of Aristeus alcocki Ramadan, 1938 from south-west coast of India: Rekha Devi Chakraborty, Purushothaman P., Kuberan G., Jomon Sebastian & Maheswarudu G

1726 Interpopulation variation in horse mackerel, Megalaspis cordyla (Linnaeus, 1758), along Indian coast: a chemometric study based on fatty acid profile of heart tissue: Sajina A. M., Venkateshwarlu G., Chakraborty S. K., Jaiswar A. K., Thachil M. T. & Deepa Sudheesan.

1734 Assessment of Environmentally Sensitive Area and Desertification Severity using GIS for an Indian Region - Virudhunagar District, Tamil Nadu: K.Vani, M.Ramalingam, S.S.Ramakrishnan, M.Priya Muthu Ramalakshmi, & M.Muneeswaran

1742 Isolation and characterization of antagonistic Streptomyces spp. from marine sediments along the southwest coast of India: Rekha Devi Chakraborty , Kajal Chakraborty & Bini Thilakan

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1750 Impact of Thermal Discharge from a Tropical Coastal Power Plant on Physico-chemical Properties with Special Nutrients of Kalpakkam Coastal Area, Southeastern Coast of India: Usha

Natesan1*, Muthulakshmi AL, Deepthi K, Vincent A Ferrer, Narasimhan S.V and Venugopalan V.P

1762 Mapping and monitoring of land use/land cover changes in Neil Island (South Andaman) using geospatial approaches: Mageswaran, T., Sachithanandam, V., Sridhar, R., Thirunavukarasu, E & Ramesh, R.

1769 Investigation on antibacterial, antifungal and cytotoxic properties of chosen mangroves: R. Ramasubburayan, S. Prakash, P. Iyapparaj, S. Sumathi, B. Jude Thaddaeus, A. Palavesam & G. Immanuel

1778 Identification and Reappraisal of Epinephelus coioides and Epinephelus tauvina through a DNA Barcoding Approach from the Andaman waters: Sachithanandam, V.; Mohan, P.M.; Muruganandam, N.; Thamizhmani, R. & R. Baskaran

1787 New record of Cladiella pachyclados (Klunzinger, 1877) at Port Blair, South Andaman, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India: VIBHA, V.U, MOHAN, P.M., MURUGANANTHAM, M. AND NAGARJUNA, P.

1790 Seasonal variations of molluscs of Mirya sandy shore, Ratnagiri: Snehal. S. Lokhande, A. D. Adsul, S. T. Indulkar & A. S. Ninawe

1796 Patterning of Vibrio spp. on oxide dots of silicon for the development of biosensor: Sankar Ganesh P, Sathyaraj K, Chandrakala N, Rajendran K & Kumaran S

1799 Metal tolerance of bioluminescent bacteria isolated from marine organisms: K. Amutha & S. Shamini

1807 A new switched reluctance motor drive using passive network for marine propulsion: S.Muthulakshmi & R.Dhanasekaran

1815 Environmental variability of some edaphic components from virgin areas of tropical mangrove forest of Sundarban, India: Subrat Mukherjee, Phanibhusan Ghosh, Subhasis Sarkar & Tapan Saha

1825 INSTRUCTION TO AUTHORS