Mohamed Hichem Hichem KARA

Prof. Mohamed Hichem Hichem KARA


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Academic Career Length

27Years (2000-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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1 April 2000 in Molecular Ecology
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CLC. Lemaire
C. Lemaire
GAG. Allegrucci
G. Allegrucci
MNM. Naciri
M. Naciri
LBL. Bahri‐Sfar
L. Bahri‐Sfar
MKMohamed Hichem Hichem KARA
Mohamed Hichem Hichem KARA
FBF. Bonhomme
F. Bonhomme

30 September 2006 in Scientia Marina
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LCLamya Chaoui
Lamya Chaoui
MKMohamed Hichem Hichem KARA
Mohamed Hichem Hichem KARA
EFEric Faure
Eric Faure
JQJean Pierre Quignard
Jean Pierre Quignard
Gilthead seabream Sparus aurata (L.), a protandrous hermaphrodite, was caught in Mellah lagoon (Algeria) from July 1997 to June 1998. Its age, growth and reproduction were studied. Fish ranged in size from 157 to 610 mm total length and weighed from 60 to 4000 g wet weight. There were fish aged 1+ to 7+ years old in the samples. Direct scale readings were made by counting the number of rings. These were compared with the data obtained by backcalculating the lengths at different ages. These two methods were in agreement and showed that the growth rate of gilthead seabream in Mellah lagoon is very high compared to other study areas. The growth parameters of the Von Bertalanffy equation were: L∞ = 55.33 cm, K = 0.513, t0 = - 0.282, with F’ = 7.359. The fitted length-weight relationship was W = 1.292. 10-2 L3.06. The reproductive season extended from October to January, with a peak in December. Sex inversion occurred at a total length of 44 cm. Sexual maturity was reached at 32.6 cm total length.

11 June 2007 in Comptes Rendus. Biologies
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FHFRIHI Hocine
FRIHI Hocine
ACAlain Couté
Alain Couté
GMGérard Mascarell
Gérard Mascarell
CPCatherine Perrette-Gallet
Catherine Perrette-Gallet
MAMebarek Ayada
Mebarek Ayada
MKMohamed Hichem Hichem KARA
Mohamed Hichem Hichem KARA
Nous présentons ici, pour la première fois, un inventaire des dinoflagellés responsables des blooms toxiques ou non de la baie d'Annaba (Algérie) durant l'année 2002. Les analyses qualitative et quantitative des peuplements phytoplanctoniques révèlent l'existence de 11 taxons, parmi lesquels deux espèces, Alexandrium catenella et Gymnodinium catenatum , connues pour produire des toxines, ont provoqué des blooms. Sept autres espèces, Dinophysis caudata , D. fortii , D. rapa , D. rotundata , D. tripos , Lingulodinium polyedrum et Protoperidinium crassipes sont toxinogènes, mais n'ont jamais contribué, ici, à des floraisons phytoplanctoniques. Enfin, les deux derniers taxons, à savoir, Prorocentrum triestinum et Scrippsiella trochoidea , ont été associés à des eaux colorées, mais n'ont pas de potentialité toxique reconnue. L'étude physicochimique réalisée parallèlement à celle du phytoplancton a montré le caractère eutrophe des stations 1 et 2. La station 3, en revanche, est oligotrophe.

1 May 2015 in Royal Society Open Science
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IPI. D. Pivotto
I. D. Pivotto
DND. Nerini
D. Nerini
MMM. Masmoudi
M. Masmoudi
MKMohamed Hichem Hichem KARA
Mohamed Hichem Hichem KARA
LCL. Chaoui
L. Chaoui
DAD. Aurelle
D. Aurelle
Climate change has a strong impact on marine ecosystems, including temperate species. Analysing the diversity of thermotolerance levels within species along with their genetic structure enables a better understanding of their potential response to climate change. We performed this integrative study on the Mediterranean octocoral Eunicella cavolini , with samples from different depths and by means of a common garden experiment. This species does not host photosynthetic Symbiodinium , enabling us to focus on the cnidarian response. We compared the thermotolerance of individuals from 20 m and 40 m depths from the same site and with replicates from the same colony. On the basis of an innovative statistical analysis of necrosis kinetics and risk, we demonstrated the occurrence of a very different response between depths at this local scale, with lower thermotolerance of deep individuals. Strongly thermotolerant individuals were observed at 20 m with necrosis appearing at higher temperatures than observed in situ . On the basis of nine microsatellite loci, we showed that these marked thermotolerance differences occur within a single population. This suggests the importance of acclimatization processes in adaptation to these different depths. In addition, differences between replicates demonstrated the occurrence of a variability of response between fragments from the same colony with the possibility of an interaction with a tank effect. Our results provide a basis for studying adaptation and acclimatization in Mediterranean octocorals in a heterogeneous environment.

17 August 2011 in European Journal of Wildlife Research
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MKMohamed Hichem Hichem KARA
Mohamed Hichem Hichem KARA

20 December 2008 in Comptes Rendus. Biologies
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LCLamya Chaoui
Lamya Chaoui
MKMohamed Hichem Hichem KARA
Mohamed Hichem Hichem KARA
JQJean Pierre Quignard
Jean Pierre Quignard
EFEric Faure
Eric Faure
FBFrançois Bonhomme
François Bonhomme
Nous avons comparé à l'aide de trois marqueurs microsatellites et de deux systèmes RAPD, quatre échantillons de daurades originaires des rives nord (étang de Thau et Sète) et sud (baie d'Annaba et lagune du Mellah) de la Méditerranée occidentale. Contrairement à ce qui pouvait être prédit pour une espèce très mobile à phase de dispersion larvaire planctonique, la différenciation génétique observée sur les locus microsatellites entre les deux rives s'est révélée forte et significative à tous les locus ( F st = 0 , 069 ∗ ∗ ∗ ). Les deux échantillons du Golfe du Lion ne sont pas différenciés l'un de l'autre ( F st = 0 , 003 ns ), tandis que ceux du Golfe d'Annaba montrent des niveaux de différenciation variables selon le marqueur ou la combinaison de marqueurs utilisés. Les données RAPD montrent une tendance analogue. Les raisons de cette différenciation génétique étonnamment forte entre le nord et le sud, par rapport à ce qui a été observé chez d'autres espèces sur une distance géographique comparable, sont à rechercher soit dans l'existence d'une très faible dispersion larvaire, soit dans l'écart à la neutralité des locus analysés.