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The Role of Maternal Nutrition on Oocyte Size and Quality, with Respect to Early Larval Development in The Coral-Eating Starfish, Acanthaster planci. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Variation in local environmental conditions can have pronounced effects on the population structure and dynamics of marine organisms. Previous studies on crown-of-thorns starfish, Acanthaster planci, have primarily focused on effects of water quality and
Ciemon Frank Caballes +3 more
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Bright spots in the darkness of cancer: A review of starfishes-derived compounds and their anti-tumor action [PDF]
, 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.
Arizza V. +4 more
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Agriculture, 2023 Soil washing is a well-established remediation technology for treating soil contaminated with heavy metals. It involves the separation of contaminants from the soil using acidic washing agents.
Sang Hyeop Park +3 more
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Unusual Steroid Constituents from the Tropical Starfish sp
Natural Product Communications, 2016 Two polar steroid compounds, taurochenodeoxycholic acid sodium salt (1) and a rare cyclic steroid glycoside luzonicoside A (2), were isolated from the tropical starfish Leiaster sp. and identified by extensive NMR and ESIMS techniques.
Timofey V. Malyarenko +5 more
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An exceptionally well-preserved starfish fauna (Asteroidea, Echinodermata) from the Early Miocene of southeastern France [PDF]
Swiss Journal of PalaeontologyA new starfish fauna from the Late Burdigalian (Early Miocene) of the Apt basin (Rhodano-Provençal gulf, southeastern France) is described here. This new starfish fauna comes from accumulation levels of marine invertebrates, including exceptionally well ...
Anaïs Travers +4 more
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Culling corallivores improves short-term coral recovery under bleaching scenarios
Nature Communications, 2022 This study uses multispecies modelling to show that the management of a coral predator, the crown-of-thorns starfish, could help corals recover following bleaching events.
Jacob G. D. Rogers, Éva E. Plagányi
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Marine Drugs, 2023 Outbreaks of starfish (Asterias amurensis) pose a major threat to aquaculture and marine ecosystems in Qingdao, China, and no effective methods have been found to control them. A comprehensive study of collagen in starfish could be an alternative to high
Lingcui Li +3 more
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Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2019 The first report of a gonadotropic substance in an invertebrate hot-water extract of radial nerve cords from starfish Asterias forbesi that induced the shedding of gametes when injected into the coelomic cavity in a ripe individual occurred in 1959.
Masatoshi Mita
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Starfish as feedstuff (OK-Net Ecofeed Practice Abstract) [PDF]
, 2020 • Starfish should be harvested, at the earliest, three months before spawning to have highest protein and lowest ash content. • High calcium levels limit the inclusion level of starfish meal in piglets’ diets to around 5%.
van der Heide, Marleen Elise +1 more
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Marine Drugs, 2013 The neuritogenic and neuroprotective activities of six starfish polar steroids, asterosaponin Р1, (25S)-5α-cholestane-3β,4β,6α,7α,8,15α,16β,26-octaol, and (25S)-5α-cholestane-3β,6α,7α,8,15α,16β,26-heptaol (1–3) from the starfish Patiria pectinifera and ...
Valentin A. Stonik +5 more
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