EDIS, 2009 SGEF-169, a 4-page fact sheet by John Stevely and Don Sweat, describes why study and management of sponge populations remains essential to the health of Florida’s coastal waters and discusses their potential pharmaceutical value, harvesting practices ...
John Stevely, Don Sweat
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Multi-Omic Profiling of Melophlus Sponges Reveals Diverse Metabolomic and Microbiome Architectures that Are Non-overlapping with Ecological Neighbors [PDF]
Marine Drugs, 2020 Marine sponge holobionts, defined as filter-feeding sponge hosts together with their associated microbiomes, are prolific sources of natural products. The inventory of natural products that have been isolated from marine sponges is extensive. Here, using
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Marine Sponge Derived Natural Products between 2001 and 2010: Trends and Opportunities for Discovery of Bioactives [PDF]
Marine Drugs, 2014 Marine sponges belonging to the phylum Porifera (Metazoa), evolutionarily the oldest animals are the single best source of marine natural products.
Mohammad Ferdous Mehbub +3 more
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Recent Updates on Terpenoids and Other Bioactive Constituents of Marine Sponges [PDF]
MoleculesMarine sponges are a promising source of bioactive secondary metabolites, contributing hundreds of novel compounds per year to natural product research, each with diverse chemical and biological properties.
Maggie J. F. Raymond +1 more
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Metagenomic insights and biosynthetic potential of Candidatus Entotheonella symbiont associated with Halichondria marine sponges [PDF]
Microbiology SpectrumKorea, being surrounded by the sea, provides a rich habitat for marine sponges, which have been a prolific source of bioactive natural products. Although a diverse array of structurally novel natural products has been isolated from Korean marine sponges,
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mSystems, 2021 Marine sponge holobionts are prolific sources of natural products. One of the most geographically widespread classes of sponge-derived natural products is the bromotyrosine alkaloids.
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Some Like It Fat: Comparative Ultrastructure of the Embryo in Two Demosponges of the Genus Mycale (Order Poecilosclerida) from Antarctica and the Caribbean [PDF]
, 2015 0000-0002-7993-1523© 2015 Riesgo et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License [4.0], which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original ...
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Marine sponge's biological activities: Their Biotechnological Uses
Journal of Basic and Applied Research in Biomedicine, 2022 The most of the time, marine sponges are an invertebrate species found in the tropics, subtropics, and temperate zones of the oceans and seas. They are acknowledged as being among the most important sources of bioactive chemicals, which are found in ...
Rama Al-Adaileh +2 more
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Antimicrobial alkaloids isolated from marine sponges-MINIREVIEW
Journal of Basic and Applied Research in Biomedicine, 2022 Marine natural products have attracted the attention of scientists to isolate novel biologically active metabolites. Several promising metabolites were discovered from marine sponges with different biological activities including antimicrobial and ...
Haitham Qaralleh +5 more
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Pharmacological Activities of Extracts and Compounds Isolated from Mediterranean Sponge Sources
Pharmaceuticals, 2021 Marine pharmacology is an exciting and growing discipline that blends blue biotechnology and natural compound pharmacology together. Several sea-derived compounds that are approved on the pharmaceutical market were discovered in sponges, marine organisms
Lorenzo Di Cesare Mannelli +11 more
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