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Lookup NU author(s): Dr Claire Hellio, Dr Jean-Philippe Marechal, Dr Nicholas Aldred, Professor Tony Clare
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One of the most promising alternative technologies to antifouling paints based on heavy metals is the development of coatings whose active ingredients are compounds naturally occurring in marine organisms. This approach is based on the problem of epibiosis faced by all marine organisms and the fact that a great number of them cope with it successfully. The present study investigated the antifouling activity of a series of extracts and secondary metabolites from the epibiont-free Mediterranean sponges Ircinia oros, I. spinosula, Cacospongia scalaris, Dysidea sp., and Hippospongia communis. Antifouling efficacy was evaluated by the settlement inhibition of laboratory-reared Balanus amphitrite Darwin cyprids. The most promising activity was exhibited by the metabolites 2-[24-acetoxy]-octaprenyl-1-4-hydroquinone (8a), dihydrofurospongin II (10), and the alcoholic extract of Dysidea sp. © Springer Science+Business Media, Inc. 2005.
Author(s): Hellio C, Tsoukatou M, Maréchal J, Aldred N, Beaupoil C, Clare AS, Vagias C, Roussis V
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Marine Biotechnology
Year: 2005
Volume: 7
Issue: 4
Pages: 297-305
Print publication date: 01/08/2005
ISSN (print): 1436-2228
ISSN (electronic): 1436-2236
Publisher: Springer New York LLC
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10126-004-3150-x
DOI: 10.1007/s10126-004-3150-x
PubMed id: 15971089
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