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Biochemical trade-offs: evidence for ecologically linked secondary metabolism of the sponge Oscarella balibaloi.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2011
Ivanisevic Julijana, Thomas Olivier P, Pedel Laura, Pénez Nicolas, Ereskovsky Alexander V, Culioli Gérald, Pérez Thierry
Abstract excerpt
Secondary metabolite production is assumed to be costly and therefore the resource allocation to their production should be optimized with respect to primary biological functions such as growth or reproduction. Sponges are known to produce a great diversity of secondary metabolites with powerful biological activities that may explain their domination in some hard substrate communities both in terms of diversity...
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