After almost 40 years of investigation, a period in which over 6000 new compounds have
been discovered, marine natural products researchers have begun to view the marine …

Sponges can provide potential drugs against many major world-wide occurring diseases.
Despite the high potential of sponge derived drugs no sustainable production method has …

Marine bioprocess engineers face a unique challenge for the millennium: designing
methods for the sustainable development of known marine resources, as well as inventing a …

This overview attempts to bring together a widely scattered and disparate literature on
marine natural product antifoulants. In particular, studies that have focused on the screening …

There is increasing interest in biotechnological production of marine sponge biomass owing
to the discovery of many commercially important secondary metabolites in this group of …

Marine sponges have been a rich source of natural products, but only in recent years have
studies been undertaken to evaluate the ecological functions of these compounds …

Background Marine sponge species are of significant interest to many scientific fields
including marine ecology, conservation biology, genetics, host-microbe symbiosis and …

The tropical marine sponge Dysidea herbacea (Keller) contains the filamentous unicellular
cyanobacterium Oscillatoria spongeliae (Schulze) Hauck as an endosymbiont, plus …

Conservationists and resource managers throughout the world continue to overlook the
important role of sponges in reef ecology. This neglect persists for three primary reasons …

The major secondary metabolites of the sponge Aplysina aerophoba are brominated
compounds. X-ray energy dispersive microanalysis was therefore used to locate secondary …