{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Giraldes BW"],"funding":["Qatar National Research Fund"],"pagination":["e0232205"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC7219822"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["15(5)"],"pubmed_abstract":["This study presents the taxonomic description of two new sponge species that are intimately associated with the hyperarid mangrove ecosystem of Qatar. The study includes a preliminary evaluation of the sponges' potential bioactivity against pathogens. Chalinula qatari sp. nov. is a fragile thinly encrusting sponge with a vivid maroon colour in life, often with oscular chimneys and commonly recorded on pneumatophores in the intertidal and shallow subtidal zone. Suberites luna sp. nov. is a massive globular-lobate sponge with a greenish-black colour externally and a yellowish orange colour internally, recorded on pneumatophores in the shallow subtidal zone, with large specimens near the seagrass ecosystem that surrounds the mangrove. For both species, a drug extraction protocol and an antiba"],"journal":["PloS one"],"pubmed_title":["Two new sponge species (Demospongiae: Chalinidae and Suberitidae) isolated from hyperarid mangroves of Qatar with notes on their potential antibacterial bioactivity."],"pmcid":["PMC7219822"],"funding_grant_id":["UREP21-141-3-032"],"pubmed_authors":["Goodwin C","Al-Fardi NAA","Abdulkader HA","Ahmed Eltai NO","Leitao A","Al-Korbi HA","Ahmed AA","Al Easa HSS","Giraldes BW","Engmann A","Ahmed KO","Hanifi-Moghaddam P"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Two new sponge species (Demospongiae: Chalinidae and Suberitidae) isolated from hyperarid mangroves of Qatar with notes on their potential antibacterial bioactivity.","description":"This study presents the taxonomic description of two new sponge species that are intimately associated with the hyperarid mangrove ecosystem of Qatar. The study includes a preliminary evaluation of the sponges' potential bioactivity against pathogens. Chalinula qatari sp. nov. is a fragile thinly encrusting sponge with a vivid maroon colour in life, often with oscular chimneys and commonly recorded on pneumatophores in the intertidal and shallow subtidal zone. Suberites luna sp. nov. is a massive globular-lobate sponge with a greenish-black colour externally and a yellowish orange colour internally, recorded on pneumatophores in the shallow subtidal zone, with large specimens near the seagrass ecosystem that surrounds the mangrove. For both species, a drug extraction protocol and an antiba","dates":{"release":"2020-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2020","modification":"2025-04-29T10:57:32.396Z","creation":"2020-06-05T07:01:28Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC7219822","cross_references":{"pubmed":["32401792"],"doi":["10.1371/journal.pone.0232205"]}}