A cup half full: the first assessment on the distribution, ecology and need for conservation of the threatened Neptune's cup sponge, Cliona patera, in the Gulf of …

R Mehrotra, T McGrath, T McCabe, A Chankong… - Environmental …, 2023 - Springer
The Neptune's cup sponge is an iconic species found in marine soft sediment habitats in the
Indo-West Pacific, with a history of overharvesting and extreme population declines. Access …

The host sex contributes to the endophytic bacterial community in Sargassum thunbergii and their receptacles

Y Zhao, T Sun, Y Li, Z Yang, J Chen, J Wang… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Endophytic bacteria have a complex coevolutionary relationship with their host macroalgae.
Dioecious macroalgae are important producers in marine ecosystems, but there is still a lack …

Microbiome composition of the marine sponge Cliona varians at the neotropical southern Caribbean Sea displays a predominant core of Rhizobiales and …

J Sánchez‐Suárez, L Díaz, H Junca… - Journal of Applied …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Aims This work aims to characterize the microbial diversity of the encrusting sponge Cliona
varians, a pore‐forming and coral reef bioeroding marine sponge of emerging spread …

Drug Development Projects Guided by Ethnobotany and Ethnopharmacology Studies

SR Ali, S Kumari, SK Prasad, RS Prasad… - Drug Discovery and …, 2023 - Springer
In order to determine the present state of knowledge on ethnobotany, ethnopharmacology,
and its application to drug development, this work reviews a variety of texts and studies in …

Artificial Intelligence and Discovery of Microbial Natural Products

R Hamdy, AM Altaie, EM El-Labbad… - Drug Discovery and …, 2023 - Springer
Natural products (NPs) have a variety of potential medicinal applications as drug or lead
molecules for drug development. NPs are subset of small chemical molecules known as …