[Updated on 19 August 2020]

MBC2019-Special Issue Articles Available Online-Online First Articles in Marine Biotechnology(https://link.springer.com/journal/10126/onlineFirst)
1. Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar L., 1758) Gut Microbiota Profile Correlates with Flesh Pigmentation:
Cause or Effect?

Chan D. H. Nguyen, Gianluca Amoroso, Tomer Ventura, Jeremiah J. Minich & Abigail Elizur

Mar Biotechnol (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10126-019-09939-1
Received: 20 September 2019/Accepted: 22 December 2019/Published: 15 January 2020
Keywords: Atlantic salmon, Microbiota, Flesh color, Pigmentation, Carotenoids
2. Responses of Intertidal Bacterial Biofilm Communities to Increasing pCO2.

Dorsaf Kerfahi, Ben P. Harvey, Sylvain Agostini, Koetsu Kon, Ruiping Huang, Jonathan M. Adams &Jason M. Hall-Spencer

Mar Biotechnol (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10126-020-09958-3
Received: 02 October 2019/Accepted: 21 February 2020/Published: 17 March 2020
Keywords: Bacteria, Biodiversity, Ocean acidification, Rocky shore ecology
3. Identification of the Domains Involved in Promotion of Silica Formation in Glassin, a Protein
Occluded in Hexactinellid Sponge Biosilica, for Development of a Tag for Purification andImmobilization of Recombinant Proteins.

Michika Nishi, Hiroki Kobayashi, Taro Amano, Yuto Sakate, Tomohiro Bito, Jiro Arima & Katsuhiko
Shimizu

Mar Biotechnol (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10126-020-09967-2
Received: 03 February 2020/Accepted: 26 March 2020/Published: 14 April 2020
Keywords: Biosilica, Porifera, Immobilization, Protein purification, Histidine, Metal affinity
4. Taxonomic Distribution of Tetrodotoxin in Acotylean Flatworms (Polycladida: Platyhelminthes).

Maho Kashitani, Taiki Okabe, Hikaru Oyama, Kaede Noguchi, Haruka Yamazaki, Rei Suo, Tetsushi
Mori, Haruo Sugita & Shiro Itoi

Mar Biotechnol (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10126-020-09968-1
Received: 29 December 2019/Accepted: 30 March 2020/Published: 15 May 2020
Keywords: Acotylea, Flatworm, Planocera, Polycladida, 28S rRNA, Tetrodotoxin (TTX)
5. Genetic and Morphological Characteristics in the Local Population of the Landlocked
Salmon Oncorhynchus masou Originally Distributed in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Taiki Okabe, Naoyuki Suguro, Tomoko Koito, Kento Endo, Haruo Sugita & Shiro Itoi

Mar Biotechnol (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10126-020-09975-2
Received: 30 December 2019/Accepted: 29 April 2020/Published: 03 June 2020
Keywords: Distribution boundary, Indigenous population, Mitochondrial DNA, Oncorhynchus masou,
Salmonid fish
6. Identification of Functional SSR Markers in Freshwater Ornamental Shrimps Neocaridina

denticulata Using Transcriptome Sequencing
Chang-Wen Huang, Pei-Yun Chu, Yu-Fang Wu, Wei-Ren Chan & Yeh-Hao Wang

Mar Biotechnol (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10126-020-09979-y
Received: 03 January 2020/Accepted: 18 May 2020/Published: 11 June 2020
Keywords: Freshwater ornamental shrimp, Identification, Color traits, DNA molecular markers
7. Transcriptome Analyses of Immune System Behaviors in Primary Polyp of Coral Acropora digitifera
Exposed to the Bacterial Pathogen Vibrio coralliilyticus under Thermal Loading

Toshiyuki Takagi, Yuki Yoshioka, Yuna Zayasu, Noriyuki Satoh & Chuya Shinzato

Mar Biotechnol (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10126-020-09984-1
Received: 02 April 2020/Accepted: 06 July 2020/Published: 21 July 2020
Keywords: Coral, Vibrio coralliilyticus, Thermal stress, Innate immunity, Transcriptome analysis,
Immunosuppression