Bright Spots in The Darkness of Cancer: A Review of Starfishes-Derived Compounds and Their Anti-Tumor Action. [PDF]
Mar Drugs, 2019 The fight against cancer represents a great challenge for researchers and, for this reason, the search for new promising drugs to improve cancer treatments has become inevitable.
Lazzara V +4 more
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A comprehensive assessment of the intertidal biodiversity along the Portuguese coast in the early 2000s. [PDF]
Biodivers Data J, 2021 Background The unprecedented rates of current biodiversity loss have motivated a renewed interest in environmental and biodiversity monitoring. The need for sustained monitoring strategies has prompted not only the establisment of new long-term ...
Pereira J +5 more
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Phylogenetic signal dissection identifies the root of starfishes. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2015 Relationships within the class Asteroidea have remained controversial for almost 100 years and, despite many attempts to resolve this problem using molecular data, no consensus has yet emerged.
Feuda R, Smith AB.
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De novo assembly of a transcriptome from the eggs and early embryos of Astropecten aranciacus. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2017 Starfish have been instrumental in many fields of biological and ecological research. Oocytes of Astropecten aranciacus, a common species native to the Mediterranean Sea and the East Atlantic, have long been used as an experimental model to study meiotic
Musacchia F +6 more
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Gonadotropic activity of a second relaxin-type peptide in starfish. [PDF]
, 2023 In starfish, a relaxin-like gonad-stimulating peptide (RGP) acts as a gonadotropin that triggers gamete maturation and spawning. In common with other relaxin/insulin superfamily peptides, RGP consists of an A- and a B-chain, with cross-linkages mediated ...
Elphick, MR +4 more
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The fossil record of the family Benthopectinidae (Echinodermata, Asteroidea), a reappraisal [PDF]
, 2021 Fossils assigned to the predominantly deep-sea asteroid family Benthopectinidae Verrill, 1894 are described and their affinities reappraised. Detailed comparative morphology of ambulacrals, adambulacrals and marginal ossicles has revealed that only some ...
Gale, Andy S., Jagt, John W. M.
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Population biology of the sea star Anasterias minuta (Forcipulatida: Asteriidae) threatened by anthropogenic activities in rocky intertidal shores of San Matías Gulf, Patagonia, Argentina [PDF]
, 2017 In Patagonian coastal areas, intertidal benthic communities are exposed to extreme physical conditions. The interaction between harsh environment and anthropogenic pressure can generate changes in population biology of marine invertebrates, like density ...
Arribas, Lorena Pilar +3 more
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The Development and Neuronal Complexity of Bipinnaria Larvae of the Sea Star Asterias rubens. [PDF]
Integr Comp Biol, 2021 Free-swimming planktonic larvae are a key stage in the development of many marine phyla, and studies of these organisms have contributed to our understanding of major genetic and evolutionary processes.
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Body wall structure in the starfish Asterias rubens. [PDF]
J Anat, 2017 Queen Mary University of London; Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council. Grant Number: EP/J501360/1; Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council.
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New articulated asteroids (Echinodermata, Asteroidea) and ophiuroids (Echinodermata, Ophiuroidea) from the Late Jurassic (Volgian / Tithonian) of central Spitsbergen [PDF]
, 2018 The Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous Slottsmøya Member of the Agardhfjellet Formation in central Spitsbergen has yielded two new species of asteroids and two species of ophiuroids, one of which is described as new.
Gale, Andrew Scott +2 more
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