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Good Practices in Sponge Natural Product Studies: Revising Vouchers with Isomalabaricane Triterpenes

Cárdenas, Paco; Gamage, Jayani; Hettiarachchi, Chamari M.; Gunasekera, Sunithi

Part of Marine Drugs, 2022.

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Genetic diversity, gene flow and hybridization in fan-shaped sponges (Phakellia spp.) in the North-East Atlantic deep sea

Taboada, Sergi; Rios, Pilar; Mitchell, Alex; Cranston, Alex et al.

Part of Deep Sea Research Part I, 2022.

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Aviles Canyon System: Increasing the benthic biodiversity knowledge

Rios, Pilar; Altuna, Alvaro; Frutos, Inmaculada; Manjon-Cabeza, Eugenia et al.

Part of Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 2022.

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Oceanographic setting influences the prokaryotic community and metabolome in deep-sea sponges

Steffen, Karin; Indraningrat, Anak Agung Gede; Erngren, Ida; Haglöf, Jakob et al.

Part of Scientific Reports, 2022.

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Oogenesis and lipid metabolism in the deep-sea sponge Phakellia ventilabrum (Linnaeus, 1767)

Koutsouveli, Vasiliki; Balgoma, David; Checa, Antonio; Hedeland, Mikael et al.

Part of Scientific Reports, 2022.

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Mitochondrial evolution in the Demospongiae (Porifera): Phylogeny, divergence time, and genome biology

Plese, Bruna; Kenny, Nathan James; Rossi, Maria Eleonora; Cárdenas, Paco et al.

Part of Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 2021.

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Water masses constrain the distribution of deep-sea sponges in the North Atlantic Ocean and Nordic Seas

Roberts, E. M.; Bowers, D. G.; Meyer, H. K.; Samuelsen, A. et al.

Part of Marine Ecology Progress Series, p. 75-96, 2021.

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A community perspective on the concept of marine holobionts: current status, challenges, and future directions

Dittami, Simon M.; Arboleda, Enrique; Auguet, Jean-Christophe; Bigalke, Arite et al.

Part of PeerJ, 2021.

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Systematics of 'lithistid' tetractinellid demosponges from the Tropical Western Atlantic-implications for phylodiversity and bathymetric distribution

Schuster, Astrid; Pomponi, Shirley A.; Pisera, Andrzej; Cárdenas, Paco et al.

Part of PeerJ, 2021.

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The effects of sampling and storage conditions on the metabolite profile of the marine sponge Geodia barretti

Erngren, Ida; Smit, Eva; Pettersson, Curt; Cárdenas, Paco et al.

Part of Frontiers in Chemistry, 2021.

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Barrettides: A Peptide Family Specifically Produced by the Deep-Sea Sponge Geodia barretti

Steffen, Karin; Laborde, Quentin; Gunasekera, Sunithi; Payne, Colton D. et al.

Part of Journal of Natural Products, p. 3138-3146, 2021.

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A community assessment of the demersal fish and benthic invertebrates of the Rosemary Bank Seamount marine protected area (NE Atlantic)

Eerkes-Medrano, Dafne; Drewery, Jim; Burns, Finlay; Cárdenas, Paco et al.

Part of Deep Sea Research Part I, 2020.

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Sources of C₃₀ steroid biomarkers in Neoproterozoic-Cambrian rocks and oils

Love, Gordon D.; Zumberge, J. Alex; Cárdenas, Paco; Sperling, Erik A. et al.

Part of Nature Ecology & Evolution, p. 34-36, 2020.

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Rock sponges (lithistid Demospongiae) of the Northeast Atlantic seamounts, with description of ten new species

Carvalho, Francisca C.; Cárdenas, Paco; Rios, Pilar; Cristobo, Javier et al.

Part of PeerJ, 2020.

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Reproductive Biology of Geodia Species (Porifera, Tetractinellida) From Boreo-Arctic North-Atlantic Deep-Sea Sponge Grounds

Koutsouveli, Vasiliki; Cárdenas, Paco; Conejero, Maria; Rapp, Hans Tore et al.

Part of Frontiers in Marine Science, 2020.

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Surface Microornamentation of Demosponge Sterraster Spicules, Phylogenetic and Paleontological Implications

Cárdenas, Paco

Part of Frontiers in Marine Science, 2020.

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Poorly known sponges in the Mediterranean with the detection of some taxonomic inconsistencies

Dí­az, Julio A.; Ramírez-Amaro, Sergio; Ordines, Francesc; Cárdenas, Paco et al.

Part of Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, p. 1247-1260, 2020.

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The Molecular Machinery of Gametogenesis in Geodia Demosponges (Porifera): Evolutionary Origins of a Conserved Toolkit across Animals

Koutsouveli, Vasiliki; Cárdenas, Paco; Santodomingo, Nadiezhda; Marina, Anabel et al.

Part of Molecular biology and evolution, p. 3485-3506, 2020.

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Revisions to the Classification, Nomenclature, and Diversity of Eukaryotes

Adl, Sina M.; Bass, David; Lane, Christopher E.; Lukes, Julius et al.

Part of Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, p. 4-119, 2019.

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First records of Geodia demosponges from the New England seamounts, an opportunity to test the use of DNA mini-barcodes on museum specimens

Cárdenas, Paco; Moore, Jon A.

Part of Marine Biodiversity, p. 163-174, 2019.

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Fueled by methane: deep-sea sponges from asphalt seeps gain their nutrition from methane-oxidizing symbionts

Rubin-Blum, Maxim; Antony, Chakkiath Paul; Sayavedra, Lizbeth; Martinez-Perez, Clara et al.

Part of The ISME Journal, p. 1209-1225, 2019.

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Heck Diversification of Indole-Based Substrates under Aqueous Conditions: From Indoles to Unprotected Halo-tryptophans and Halo-tryptophans in Natural Product Derivatives

Pubill-Ulldemolins, Cristina; Sharma, Sunil V.; Cartmell, Christopher; Zhao, Jinlian et al.

Part of Chemistry - A European Journal, p. 10866-10875, 2019.

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Integrating morphological and molecular taxonomy with the revised concept of Stelligeridae (Porifera: Demospongiae)

Morrow, Christine; Cárdenas, Paco; Boury-Esnault, Nicole; Picton, Bernard et al.

Part of Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, p. 31-81, 2019.

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Buchwald Hartwig diversification of unprotected halotryptophans, halotryptophan containing tripeptides and the natural product barettin in aqueous conditions

Renault, Yohann J. G.; Lynch, Rosemary; Marelli, Enrico; Sharma, Sunil, V et al.

Part of Chemical Communications, p. 13653-13656, 2019.

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Molecular study supports the position of the New Zealand endemic genus Lamellomorpha in the family Vulcanellidae (Porifera, Demospongiae, Tetractinellida), with the description of three new species

Kelly, Michelle; Cardenas, Paco; Rush, Nicola; Sim-Smith, Carina et al.

Part of European journal of taxonomy, p. 1-25, 2019.

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A new deep-water Tethya (Porifera, Tethyida, Tethyidae) from the Great Australian Bight and an updated Tethyida phylogeny

Sorokin, Shirley J.; Ekins, Merrick G.; Yang, Qi; Cárdenas, Paco

Part of European journal of taxonomy, p. 1-26, 2019.

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Molecular and morphological data from Thoosidae in favour of the creation of a new suborder of Tetractinellida

Luis Carballo, Jose; Bautista-Guerrero, Eric; Cárdenas, Paco; Antonio Cruz-Barraza, Jose et al.

Part of Systematics and Biodiversity, p. 512-521, 2018.

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When is an aster not an aster? A new deep-sea Discorhabdella (Demospongiae, Poecilosclerida) with asters, from the Mozambique Channel

Vacelet, Jean; Cárdenas, Paco

Part of Zootaxa, p. 197-204, 2018.

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From marine caves to the deep sea, a new look at Caminella (Demospongiae, Geodiidae) in the Atlanto-Mediterranean region

Cárdenas, Paco; Vacelet, Jean; Chevaldonné, Pierre; Pérez, Thierry et al.

Part of Zootaxa, p. 174-196, 2018.

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Seven new deep-water Tetractinellida (Porifera: Demospongiae) from the Galápagos Islands: morphological descriptions and DNA barcodes

Schuster, Astrid; Cardenas, Paco; Pisera, Andrzej; Pomponi, Shirley A. et al.

Part of Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, p. 273-303, 2018.

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Demosponge steroid biomarker 26-methylstigmastane provides evidence for Neoproterozoic animals

Zumberge, J. Alex; Love, Gordon D.; Cárdenas, Paco; Sperling, Erik A. et al.

Part of Nature Ecology & Evolution, p. 1709-1714, 2018.

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Evolution of group I introns in Porifera: new evidence for intron mobility and implications for DNA barcoding

Schuster, Astrid; Lopez, Jose V.; Becking, Leontine E.; Kelly, Michelle et al.

Part of BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2017.

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35 Years of Marine Natural Product Research in Sweden: Cool Molecules and Models from Cold Waters.

Bohlin, Lars; Cárdenas, Paco; Backlund, Anders; Göransson, Ulf

Part of Progress in molecular and subcellular biology, p. 1-34, 2017.

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A new Hymedesmia (Demospongiae, Poecilosclerida) with large sigmas off western Sweden

Cárdenas, Paco; Thollesson, Mikael

Part of Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, p. 1305-1312, 2016.

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Who Produces Ianthelline? The Arctic Sponge Stryphnus fortis or its Sponge Epibiont Hexadella dedritifera: a Probable Case of Sponge-Sponge Contamination

Cárdenas, Paco

Part of Journal of Chemical Ecology, p. 339-347, 2016.

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An unprecedented new genus and family of Tetractinellida (Porifera, Demospongiae) from New Zealand's Colville Ridge, with a new type of mitochondrial group I intron

Kelly, Michelle; Cardenas, Paco

Part of Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, p. 335-352, 2016.

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Phylogenetic Reassessment of Antarctic Tetillidae (Demospongiae, Tetractinellida) Reveals New Genera and Genetic Similarity among Morphologically Distinct Species

Carella, Mirco; Agell, Gemma; Cárdenas, Paco; Uriz, Maria J.

Part of PLOS ONE, 2016.

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Systematics and biodiversity of deep-sea sponges of the Atlanto-Mediterranean region

Xavier, Joana R.; Cardenas, Paco; Cristobo, Javier; Van Soest, Rob et al.

Part of Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, p. 1285-1286, 2015.

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Demosponges from the Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge shed more light on the diversity and biogeography of North Atlantic deep-sea sponges

Cárdenas, Paco; Rapp, Hans Tore

Part of Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, p. 1475-1516, 2015.

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Diversification and Correlated Trait Evolution in Astrophorid Sponges (Porifera: Demospongiae)

Hamidi, H. M.; Cardenas, Paco; Thacker, R. W.

Part of Integrative and Comparative Biology, p. E269-E269, 2015.

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Proposal for a revised classification of the Demospongiae (Porifera)

Morrow, Christine; Cardenas, Paco

Part of Frontiers in Zoology, 2015.

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A Crown-Group Demosponge from the Early Cambrian Sirius Passet Biota, North Greenland

Botting, Joseph P.; Cardenas, Paco; Peel, John S.

Part of Palaeontology, p. 35-43, 2015.

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New 18S rDNA Sequence Data Suggest Exciting New Hypotheses for Internal Relationships of Demospongiae (Phylum Porifera)

Redmond, N. E.; Morrow, C. C.; Thacker, R. W.; Diaz, M. C. et al.

Part of Integrative and Comparative Biology, p. E176-E176, 2013.

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Phylogeny and Systematics of Demospongiae in Light of New Small-Subunit Ribosomal DNA (18S) Sequences

Redmond, N. E.; Morrow, C. C.; Thacker, R. W.; Diaz, M. C. et al.

Part of Integrative and Comparative Biology, p. 388-415, 2013.

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Disrupted spiculogenesis in deep-water Geodiidae (Porifera, Demospongiae) growing in shallow waters

Cardenas, Paco; Rapp, Hans Tore

Part of Invertebrate biology., p. 173-194, 2013.

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Taxonomy, biogeography and DNA barcodes of Geodia species (Porifera, Demospongiae, Tetractinellida) in the Atlantic boreo-arctic region

Cardenas, Paco; Rapp, Hans Tore; Klitgaard, Anne Birgitte; Best, Megan et al.

Part of Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, p. 251-311, 2013.

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Reconstruction of Family-Level Phylogenetic Relationships within Demospongiae (Porifera) Using Nuclear Encoded Housekeeping Genes

Hill, M. S.; Hill, A. L.; Lopez, J.; Peterson, K. J. et al.

Part of PLOS ONE, p. e50437-, 2013.

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Relationships between Host Phylogeny, Host Type and Bacterial Community Diversity in Cold-Water Coral Reef Sponges

Schöttner, Sandra; Hoffmann, Friederike; Cárdenas, Paco; Rapp, Hans Tore et al.

Part of PLOS ONE, 2013.

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A review of Norwegian streptaster-bearing Astrophorida (Porifera: Demospongiae: Tetractinellida), new records and a new species

Cárdenas, Paco; Rapp, Hans Tore

Part of Zootaxa, p. 1-53, 2012.

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Sponge Systematics Facing New Challenges

Cárdenas, Paco; Pérez, Thierry; Boury-Esnault, Nicole

Part of Advances in Marine Biology, p. 79-209, 2012.

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