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Marine Sponges as Pharmacy [PDF]

Marine Biotechnology, 2005
Marine sponges have been considered as a gold mine during the past 50 years, with respect to the diversity of their secondary metabolites. The biological effects of new metabolites from sponges have been reported in hundreds of scientific papers, and they are reviewed here.
Sipkema, D., Franssen, M.C.R., Osinga, R., Tramper, J., Wijffels, R.H.   +4 more
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Promising antiparasitic agents from marine sponges. [PDF]

Saudi J Biol Sci, 2022
Parasitic diseases especially those prevail in tropical and subtropical regions severely threaten the lives of people due to available drugs found to be ineffective as several resistant strains have been emerged. Due to the complexity of the marine environment, researchers considered it as a new field to search for compounds with therapeutic efficacy ...
Mostafa O, Al-Shehri M, Moustafa M.
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Kinase Inhibitors from Marine Sponges [PDF]

Marine Drugs, 2011
Protein kinases play a critical role in cell regulation and their deregulation is a contributing factor in an increasing list of diseases including cancer. Marine sponges have yielded over 70 novel compounds to date that exhibit significant inhibitory activity towards a range of protein kinases.
Skropeta, Danielle, Pastro, Natalie, Zivanovic, Ana   +2 more
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Terpene biosynthesis in marine sponge animals [PDF]

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2023
Sea sponges are the largest marine source of small-molecule natural products described to date. Sponge-derived molecules, such as the chemotherapeutic eribulin, the calcium-channel blocker manoalide, and antimalarial compound kalihinol A, are renowned for their impressive medicinal, chemical, and biological properties.
Kayla Wilson, Tristan de Rond, Immo Burkhardt, Taylor S. Steele, Rebecca J. B. Schäfer, Sheila Podell, Eric E. Allen, Bradley S. Moore   +7 more
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RNA interference in marine and freshwater sponges [PDF]

, 2011
Background: The marine sponge Tethya wilhelma and the freshwater sponge Ephydatia muelleri are emerging model organisms to study evolution, gene regulation, development, and physiology in non-bilaterian animal systems. Thus far, functional methods (i.e.,
Cieniewicz, Brandon, Danka, Elizabeth S., Haen, Karri M., Hammel, Jörg U., Hill, April L., Hill, Malcolm S., Knight, Scott W., Lavrov, Dennis V., Nickel, Michael, Posfai, Dora, Rivera, Ajna S., Winters, Ian P., Wörheide, Gert   +12 more
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Marine sponges as microbial fermenters. [PDF]

FEMS microbiology ecology, 2006
The discovery of phylogenetically complex, yet highly sponge-specific microbial communities in marine sponges, including novel lineages and even candidate phyla, came as a surprise. At the same time, unique research opportunities opened up, because the microorganisms of sponges are in many ways more accessible than those of seawater.
Hentschel, Ute, Usher, Kayley M., Taylor, Michael W.   +2 more
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Diversity of sponges and their microbial composition derived from marine lake: An overview [PDF]

BIO Web of Conferences
Marine lakes are landlocked marine water bodies isolated from the surrounding marine environment. Sponges have been found to be one of the predominant benthic taxa found in marine lakes.
Puspitasari Kayla F., Ramadhan Farhan, Ismet Meutia S., Kurniawan Fery, Khairiyyah Ainnun F.   +4 more
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Patterns of Sponge Abundance Across a Gradient of Habitat Quality in the Wakatobi Marine National Park, Indonesia [PDF]

, 2011
Sponges are important components of reef communities worldwide, fulfilling a number of important functional roles. Habitat degradation caused by the loss of hard corals has the potential to cause increases in sponge abundance and percentage cover as they
Bell, JJ, Hepburn, LJ, Powell, AL, Smith, DJ   +3 more
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Genomic blueprints of sponge-prokaryote symbiosis are shared by low abundant and cultivatable Alphaproteobacteria [PDF]

, 2019
Marine sponges are early-branching, filter-feeding metazoans that usually host complex microbiomes comprised of several, currently uncultivatable symbiotic lineages.
Cox, Cymon, da Rocha, Ulisses N, da Silva Costa, Rodrigo, Hentschel, Ute, Karimi, Elham, Keller-Costa, Tina, Slaby, Beate M   +6 more
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Interaction Mechanisms Between Marine Sponges (Porifera) and Microplastics: A Bioecological Overview [PDF]

BIO Web of Conferences
Microplastics, plastic particles measuring less than 5 mm, have become one of the main pollutants in marine ecosystems, with significant impacts on marine organisms, including sponges.
Hombing Angelina Br, Zamani Neviaty P., Ismet Meutia Samira, Cordova Muhammad Reza, Subhan Beginer, Suripatty Gabriel   +5 more
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