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Microbial communities and bioactive compounds in marine sponges of the family Irciniidae-a review [PDF]

, 2014
Marine sponges harbour complex microbial communities of ecological and biotechnological importance. Here, we propose the application of the widespread sponge family Irciniidae as an appropriate model in microbiology and biochemistry research. Half a gram
Anand, Asano, Bandara, Bayer, Bringmann, Brochier-Armanet, Cardoso, Cook, Cook, Cristiane Hardoim, De Caralt, De Rosa, De Rosa, De Rosa, De Rosa, De Voogd, Degrassi, di Camillo, Dieckmann, Dobretsov, Duckworth, Duckworth, Enticknap, Ereskovsky, Erwin, Erwin, Erwin, Esteves, Fan, Fan, Fieseler, Fiore, Fisch, Flemer, Friedrich, Gaino, Han, Hardoim, Hardoim, Hardoim, Hentschel, Hentschel, Hentschel, Hentschel, Hochmuth, Hoffmann, Hoffmann, Holden, Höller, Isaacs, Jaeckle, Kalia, Kalinovskaya, Kamke, Kamke, Lee, Lee, Lee, Li, Lindquist, Liu, Lopanik, Lopanik, Lopanik, Lopanik, Love, Luter, Maldonado, Man-Aharonovich, Mohamed, Mohamed, Mohamed, Mohamed, Mohamed, Muscholl-Silberhorn, Osinga, O’Halloran, Pantile, Paz, Pester, Piel, Piel, Pita, Pita, Pita, Prokof'eva, Rinkevich, Rodrigo Costa, Sara, Schirmer, Schmitt, Schmitt, Schmitt, Sharp, Siegl, Siegl, Simister, Simister, Simister, Skindersoe, Spalding, Spang, Stabili, Staunton, Sudek, Tabares, Taylor, Taylor, Thakur, Thakur, Thiel, Thomas, Thomas, Usher, Usher, Vacelet, Van Soest, Van Treeck, Webster, Webster, Webster, Webster, Webster, Webster, Webster, Webster, Weisz, Wilkinson, Wilkinson, Wilkinson, Wilkinson, Wulff, Wörheide, Yang, Zan, Zehr, Zehr   +136 more
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Marine-Derived Polymers in Ionic Liquids: Architectures Development and Biomedical Applications

Marine Drugs, 2020
Marine resources have considerable potential to develop high-value materials for applications in different fields, namely pharmaceutical, environmental, and biomedical.
Simone S. Silva, Joana M. Gomes, Luísa C. Rodrigues, Rui L. Reis   +3 more
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Indigenous demosponge spicules in a Late Devonian stromatoporoid basal skeleton from the Frasnian of Belgium [PDF]

, 2014
This paper records the first example of a demosponge spicule framework in a single specimen of a Devonian stromatoporoid from the Frasnian of southern Belgium.
Alvarez, Boulvain, Boulvain, Böhm, Chatterton, Da Silva, Da Silva, Debrenne, Erpenbeck, Erpenbeck, Erpenbeck, Gazave, Goldfuss, Gray, Haase-Schramm, Hartman, Hartman, Hooper, Hudson, Jackson, Jackson, Jochum, Kazmierczak, Kazmierczak, Kazmierczak, Kazmierczak, Kershaw, Lister, Mistiaen, Morrow, Reitner, Reitner, Reitner, Reitner, Reitner, Silva, Stearn, Stearn, Stearn, Stock, Uriz, Vacelet, Vasconcelos, Vortisch, Wood, Wood, Wood, Wood, Wood, Wörheide, Wörheide, Özdikmen   +51 more
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Synthesis and Bioactivity of Luffarin I

Marine Drugs, 2015
The first synthesis of Luffarin I, sesterterpenolide isolated from sponge Luffariella geometrica, has been accomplished from commercially available sclareol.
Aitor Urosa, Isidro S. Marcos, David Díez, Anna Lithgow, Gabriela B. Plata, José M. Padrón, Pilar Basabe   +6 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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Collagens of Poriferan Origin

Marine Drugs, 2018
The biosynthesis, structural diversity, and functionality of collagens of sponge origin are still paradigms and causes of scientific controversy. This review has the ambitious goal of providing thorough and comprehensive coverage of poriferan collagens ...
Hermann Ehrlich, Marcin Wysokowski, Sonia Żółtowska-Aksamitowska, Iaroslav Petrenko, Teofil Jesionowski   +4 more
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A geometrical picture for finite dimensional spin glasses [PDF]

, 2000
A controversial issue in spin glass theory is whether mean field correctly describes 3-dimensional spin glasses. If it does, how can replica symmetry breaking arise in terms of spin clusters in Euclidean space?
Houdayer, J., Martin, O. C.
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Three new species of Spongiopsyllus Johnsson, 2000 (Copepoda: Siphonostomatoida: Entomolepididae) associated with Aplysina cauliformis (Carter, 1882) (Porifera: Demospongiae) from Todos-os-Santos Bay, Northeastern Brazil

European Journal of Taxonomy
Entomolepididae is a small siphonostomatoid family with a distinct shield-like body morphology, comprising 9 genera and 20 species. These genera are divided into two subfamilies, mostly based on their body segmentation, the genera with fused pedigerous ...
Amilcar Farias, Alisson Santana, Elizabeth G. Neves, Rodrigo Jonsson   +3 more
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Metabolic Profiling as a Screening Tool for Cytotoxic Compounds: Identification of 3-Alkyl Pyridine Alkaloids from Sponges Collected at a Shallow Water Hydrothermal Vent Site North of Iceland

Marine Drugs, 2017
Twenty-eight sponge specimens were collected at a shallow water hydrothermal vent site north of Iceland. Extracts were prepared and tested in vitro for cytotoxic activity, and eight of them were shown to be cytotoxic.
Eydis Einarsdottir, Manuela Magnusdottir, Giuseppe Astarita, Matthias Köck, Helga M. Ögmundsdottir, Margret Thorsteinsdottir, Hans Tore Rapp, Sesselja Omarsdottir, Giuseppe Paglia   +8 more
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Marine-Derived Compounds Targeting Topoisomerase II in Cancer Cells: A Review

Marine Drugs, 2022
Cancer affects more than 19 million people and is the second leading cause of death in the world. One of the principal strategies used in cancer therapy is the inhibition of topoisomerase II, involved in the survival of cells.
Giulia Greco, Valentina Pellicioni, Ivan Cruz-Chamorro, Giuseppe Attisani, Claudio Stefanelli, Carmela Fimognari   +5 more
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