{"id":14421,"date":"2023-09-08T03:24:34","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T21:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=14421"},"modified":"2025-04-02T20:28:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T14:58:54","slug":"indian-oil-sardine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/indian-oil-sardine\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian oil sardine"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Indian oil sardine:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a very important\u00a0<strong>pelagic fish species<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It contributes to about\u00a0<strong>15% of the total marine fish<\/strong> production in India.<\/li>\n<li>Local names of oil sardine are, Mathi, Nalla mathi, Nei chala (Malayalam); Bhutai (Kannada); Tarli (Marathi and Hindi).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Distribution<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It is distributed on the\u00a0<strong>entire west coast<\/strong> from Gujarat to Kerala and also on the Tamil Nadu,\u00a0<strong>Andhra Pradesh and Orissa coasts in the east.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Highest abundance and large scale shoaling are observed off\u00a0<strong>Kerala and Karnataka coasts.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Significance<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The sardines are an\u00a0<strong>ecologically important part of the marine ecosystem<\/strong> as they form an intermediate link in the food web and serve as prey for larger predators.<\/li>\n<li>The genome assembly of the\u00a0<strong>sardines is a valuable tool<\/strong> for studying how fish adapt to climate change.<\/li>\n<li>Indian oil sardine is a vital fisheries resource in the Indian subcontinent, contributing substantially, approximately 10%, to the total marine fisheries industry in India.<\/li>\n<li>One of the findings of the study is that Indian oil sardines exist in two highly distinct stocks, one in the Indian waters and another in the Gulf of Oman.<\/li>\n<li>The researchers have identified the genes involved in the\u00a0<strong>biosynthesis of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA)<\/strong> of the oil sardine, offering insights into the genomic mechanisms behind\u00a0<strong>the high nutritional quality of the fish.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What are Saturated fatty acids?<\/h3>\n<p>Saturated fatty acids are a type of fatty acid molecule in which the carbon atoms are bonded to as many hydrogen atoms as possible, resulting in a structure where all carbon-carbon bonds are single bonds. This saturated arrangement of hydrogen atoms on the carbon chain makes the fatty acid &#8220;saturated&#8221; with hydrogen atoms.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/cities\/Kochi\/scientists-unravel-genome-secrets-of-indian-oil-sardine\/article67280727.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Scientists unravel genome secrets of Indian oil sardine<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian oil sardine is a very important pelagic fish species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":14422,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14421","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}