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International Aquatic Research, 2019 Sea anemones produce many biologically active compounds including neurotoxins, pore-forming toxins, phospholipases and proteinase inhibitors. The Persian Gulf is an unexplored environment and maybe a rich source of marine natural products.
Homa Hamayeli +2 more
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A detailed observation of the ejection and retraction of defense tissue acontia in sea anemone (Exaiptasia pallida) [PDF]
PeerJ, 2017 Acontia, located in the gastrovascular cavity of anemone, are thread-like tissue containing numerous stinging cells which serve as a unique defense tissue against predators of the immobile acontiarian sea anemone.
Julie Lam +5 more
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Molecular tuning of sea anemone stinging. [PDF]
Elife, 2023 Abstract Jellyfish and sea anemones fire single-use, venom-covered barbs to immobilize prey or predators. We previously showed that the anemone Nematostella vectensis uses a specialized voltage-gated calcium (Ca V ) channel to trigger stinging in ...
He LS +7 more
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Toxins, 2022 Sea anemones produce venoms characterized by a complex mixture of low molecular weight compounds, proteins and peptides acting on voltage-gated ion channels. Mammal sperm cells, like neurons, are characterized by their ion channels. Calcium channels seem
Fernando Lazcano-Pérez +12 more
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Taxonomic, spatial and temporal patterns of bleaching in anemones inhabited by anemonefishes. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 BackgroundRising sea temperatures are causing significant destruction to coral reef ecosystems due to coral mortality from thermally-induced bleaching (loss of symbiotic algae and/or their photosynthetic pigments). Although bleaching has been intensively
Jean-Paul A Hobbs +6 more
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Antimicrobial properties of sea anemone Anthopleura nigrescens from Pacific coast of Costa Rica
Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine, 2016 Objective: To evaluate the antimicrobial and antifungal activities of the aqueous and partitioned extract of sea anemone Anthopleura nigrescens (A. nigrescens). Methods: The sea anemone A.
Henry Borbón +4 more
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Toxins, 2017 A novel bioactive peptide named τ-AnmTx Ueq 12-1 (short name Ueq 12-1) was isolated and characterized from the sea anemone Urticina eques. Ueq 12-1 is unique among the variety of known sea anemone peptides in terms of its primary and spatial structure ...
Yulia A. Logashina +13 more
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Sea Anemones: Quiet Achievers in the Field of Peptide Toxins
Toxins, 2018 Sea anemones have been understudied as a source of peptide and protein toxins, with relatively few examined as a source of new pharmacological tools or therapeutic leads. This is surprising given the success of some anemone peptides that have been tested,
Peter J. Prentis +2 more
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Cadherin-23 may be dynamic in hair bundles of the model sea anemone Nematostella vectensis. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Cadherin 23 (CDH23), a component of tip links in hair cells of vertebrate animals, is essential to mechanotransduction by hair cells in the inner ear. A homolog of CDH23 occurs in hair bundles of sea anemones.
Pei-Ciao Tang, Glen M Watson
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Worldwide exploration of the microbiome harbored by the cnidarian model, Exaiptasia pallida (Agassiz in Verrill, 1864) indicates a lack of bacterial association specificity at a lower taxonomic rank [PDF]
PeerJ, 2017 Examination of host-microbe interactions in early diverging metazoans, such as cnidarians, is of great interest from an evolutionary perspective to understand how host-microbial consortia have evolved.
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