Chemical Ecology of Marine Sponges: New Opportunities through “-Omics”

Marine chemical ecology.

This review covers the recent marine chemical ecology literature for phytoplankton, macroalgae, sponges and other benthic invertebrates; 249 references are cited.

Chemical Ecology of Marine Bacteria and Algae

Antimicrobial Effects of Some Persian Gulf Marine Sponges

Background: We investigated in vitro antimicrobial activity of five marine sponge species collected from Kish Island in the Persian Gulf: Fascaplysinopsis reticulata, Callyspongia clavatus, Callyspongia siphonella, Niphates furcata, and Pseudosuberites clavatus against gram positive bacteria, gram negative bacteria, fungi and yeasts. Materials and Methods: Sponage extracts were prepared by two ...

Chemical assays--new opportunities.

The acceptance of the solid-phase format in various areas of clinical chemistry is the consequence of the advantages of this test format, which include stability of the reagents, unitized packaging, convenient and small instruments, and minimal preparations by users before testing. Overall, these advantages provide very convenient tests. Future successful uses of solid-phase reagents depend upo...

CHEMICAL ECOLOGY FROM GENES TO COMMUNITIES Integrating ‘omics’ with community ecology

Chemical cues that convey information are widely used by living organisms. The cues mediate interactions in food webs as well as non-trophic interactions such as interactions between conspecific organisms or between plants and natural enemies of herbivorous organisms. Communities are composed of food webs and each food web is overlaid with a reticulate infochemical web that is more complex than...