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Factors promoting marine invasions: A chemoecological approach
- Ernesto Mollo*,†,
- Margherita Gavagnin*,
- Marianna Carbone*,
- Francesco Castelluccio*,
- Ferdinando Pozone*,
- Vassilios Roussis‡,
- José Templado§,
- Michael T. Ghiselin¶, and
- Guido Cimino*
- *Istituto di Chimica Biomolecolare, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via Campi Flegrei 34, 80078 Pozzuoli, Naples, Italy;
- ‡Department of Pharmacognosy and Chemistry of Natural Products, University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis Zografou,15771 Athens, Greece;
- §Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, J. Gutierrez Abascal 2, 28006 Madrid, Spain; and
- ¶Department of Invertebrate Zoology, California Academy of Sciences, 875 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
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Edited by Jerrold Meinwald, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, and approved January 8, 2008 (received for review October 2, 2007)
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Fig. 1.Exotic sea slugs found in Greece. (a) Sampling site. (b) Haminoea cyanomarginata. (c) Melibe viridis. (d) Syphonota geographica. (Photos in c and d are courtesy of W. B. Rudman and are for illustrative purposes only and not of the specimens examined here.)
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Fig. 2.Structures of compounds 1–7.
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Fig. 3.P. elegans alimentary response to food pellets treated with compound 2 (A) and 4 (B) at the volumetric concentration of 2.3 mg/ml and 1.0 mg/ml, respectively. Two-tailed Fisher's exact test: P < 0.05 vs. control; n = 10 for each bar.
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Fig. 4.P. elegans accepts (Left) and rejects (Right) the proposed food.
Footnotes
- †To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: emollo{at}icmib.na.cnr.it
- © 2008 by The National Academy of Sciences of the USA
