Con el propósito de obtener una descripción ecológica los elementos que integran la comunidad coralina Banco Chinchorro, arrecife del Caribe Mexicano, datos invertebrados y macroalgas obtenidos en 2016 2017 mediante transectos fotográficos 36 sitios laguna arrecifal fueron analizados. Los indicadores ecológicos utilizados fueron: dominancia, diversidad ecológica, análisis similitud ordenación e...

Gorgonian corals possess many novel natural products that could potentially mediate coral-bacterial interactions. Since many bacteria use quorum sensing (QS) signals to facilitate colonization of host organisms, regulation of prokaryotic cell-to-cell communication may represent an important bacterial control mechanism. In the present study, we examined extracts of twelve species of Caribbean go...

Several diterpenoids isolated from terrestrial and marine environments have been identified as important anti-inflammatory agents. Although considerable progress has been made in the area of anti-inflammatory treatment, the search for more effective and safer compounds is a very active field of research. In this study we investigated the anti-inflammatory effects of a known pseudopterane diterp...

A sulfated gfycoconjugate, named as S-ACT-1, extracted from a red marine algae (Gzlidiella acerosa) found in the Southern coast of Sri Lanka, has been reported for improving-motility of ejaculated human spermatozoa. This study was designed to assess the efficacy of S-ACT-1 on goat sperm capacitation and to establish complete _ vitro maturation (IVM), fertilization (IVF) and culture (IVC) proced...

This study evaluated the natural prey preferences and spatial variability of predation pressure (PP = proportion of colonies with snails and/or clear predation signs) by the gastropod Cyphoma gibbosum on octocoral communities off the La Parguera Natural Reserve, Puerto Rico. All octocoral colonies were checked for presence of C. gibbosum and/or clear predation signs in four permanent band-trans...