Annette Jaya Ram
Senior Lecturer
B.Sc. (Hons) (Animal Biology), Universiti Sains Malaysia
M.Sc. (Aquatic Biology), Universiti Sains Malaysia
Ph.D. (Aquatic Biology), Universiti Sains Malaysia
+604-885 2750 Ext.113;
Mariculture
Research Profile
Mariculture (Crustaceans).
Current Research
- Nutrient requirement evaluation - Improvement of survival and growth in different stages of the mud crab (Scylla sp.).
- Investigation of fatty acid profile in live feed utilized in mud crab zoea cultures.
Selected Publications Scopus Author ID: 23990883500, ORCID ID: orcid.org/0000-0001-9906-5661
- Annette Jaya-Ram, Meng-Kiat Kuah, Phaik-Siew Lim, Sagiv Kolkovski & Alexander ChongShu-Chien (2008). Influence of dietary HUFA levels on reproductive performance, tissue fatty acid profile and desaturase and elongase mRNAs expression in female zebrafish Danio rerio. Aquaculture, 277: 275-281.
- Sairatul Dahlianis Ishak, Tan Sze-Huey, Khong Hou-Keat, Annette Jaya-Ram, Enyu Yee-Ling, Kuah Meng-Kiat, Alexander Chong Shu-Chien (2008). Upregulated mRNA expression of desaturase and elongase, two enzymes involved in highly unsaturated fatty acids biosynthesis pathways during follicle maturation in zebrafish. Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology, (6): 56.
- Hou-Keat Khong, Meng-Kiat Kuah, Annette Jaya-Ram, Alexander Chong Shu-Chien (2009). Prolactin receptor mRNA is upregulated in discus fish (Symphysodon aequifasciata) skin during parental phase. Comparative Biochemistry & Physiology, Part B, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, 153 (1): 18-28.
- Annette Jaya-Ram, Sairatul Dahlianis Ishak, Yee-Ling Enyu, Meng-Kiat Kuah, Kah-Loon Wong, Alexander Chong Shu-Chien (2011). Molecular cloning and ontogenic mRNA expression of fatty acid desaturase in the carnivorous striped snakehead fish (Channa striata). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part A, Molecular & Integrative Physiology, 158 (4): 415-422.
- Jennifer M. Cobcroft, Alexander Chong Shu-Chien, Meng-Kiat Kuah, Annette Jaya-Ram, Stephen C. Battaglene (2012). The effects of tank colour, live food enrichment and greenwater on the early onset of jaw malformation in striped trumpeter larvae. Aquaculture, 356-357: 61-72.
- Go Furusawa, Nyok-Sean Lau, Alexander Chong Shu-Chien, Annette Jaya-Ram, Al-Ashraf Abdullah Amirul (2015). Identification of polyunsaturated fatty acid and diterpenoid biosynthesis pathways from draft genome of Aureispira sp. CCB-QB1. Marine Genomics, 19: 39-44.
- Meng-Kiat Kuah, Annette Jaya-Ram, Alexander Chong Shu-Chien. (2015). The capacity for long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acid synthesis in a carnivorous vertebrate: Functional characterisation and nutritional regulation of a Fads2 fatty acyl desaturase with ∆4 activity and an Elovl5 elongase in striped snakehead (Channa striata). Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids, 1851: 248-260.
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