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Maissa Gharbi, Francesca Glaviano, Serena Federico, Bruno Pinto, Anna Di Cosmo, Maria Costantini and Valerio Zupo
Paracentrotus lividus gonads, often referred to as ?roe? or ?uni? for gastronomical purposes, are among the most appreciated seafood delicacies in the Mediterranean area and worldwide. However, the increasing demand for human consumption has caused a gro...
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Alessandra Martines, Giulia Furfaro, Michele Solca, Maurizio Muzzi, Andrea Di Giulio and Sergio Rossi
Microplastic pollution constitutes a serious environmental problem that requires more effective scientific research to describe its potential impacts on marine fauna. The interaction between microplastics and marine biota can have significant negative ef...
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Munawar Khalil, Steve S. Doo, Marleen Stuhr and Hildegard Westphal
Ocean acidification and ocean warming compromise the capacity of calcifying marine organisms to generate and maintain their skeletons. While many marine calcifying organisms precipitate low-Mg calcite or aragonite, the skeleton of echinoderms consists of...
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Fangyuan Hu, Huiyan Wang, Ruihuan Tian, Jujie Gao, Guo Wu, Donghong Yin and Chong Zhao
The sea cucumber Apostichopus japonicus and the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus intermedius are two commercially important species and are widely cultured in China. Here, a laboratory experiment was conducted for 34 days to assess whether the survival, gro...
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Claudio Luparello, Rossella Branni, Giulia Abruscato, Valentina Lazzara, Simon Sugár, Vincenzo Arizza, Manuela Mauro, Vita Di Stefano and Mirella Vazzana
Echinoderms are an acknowledged source of bioactive compounds exerting various beneficial effects on human health. Here, we examined the potential in vitro anti-hepatocarcinoma effects of aqueous extracts of the cell-free coelomic fluid obtained from the...
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Guadalupe Gimenez, Giuseppe Corriero, Sajmir Beqiraj, Lorela Lazaj, Tamara Lazic, Caterina Longo, Maria Mercurio, Carlotta Nonnis Marzano, Massimo Zuccaro, Violeta Zuna and Cataldo Pierri
Coralligenous bioconstructions are one of the Mediterranean?s most distinctive and biodiverse marine habitats. This research aimed to provide a preliminary characterization of macrobenthic coralligenous assemblages at four sites located in the Marine Nat...
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Dimitris Klaoudatos, Labrini Tziantziou, Alexios Lolas, Nikos Neofitou and Dimitris Vafidis
The black sea urchin (Arbacia lixula, Linnaeus, 1758) is a non-edible marine echinoderm of high ecological importance with the potential to affect marine ecological communities. A. lixula were sampled monthly for one year from the supralittoral fringe at...
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Claudio Luparello, Debora Ragona, Dalia Maria Lucia Asaro, Valentina Lazzara, Federica Affranchi, Vincenzo Arizza and Mirella Vazzana
Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is a highly malignant tumor histotype which lacks effective targeted therapies, thereby being considered as the most aggressive form of breast carcinoma. To identify novel compounds which could counteract TNBC cell gr...
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Klaus M. Stiefel and Glyn A. Barrett
Neuromorphic engineering is the approach to intelligent machine design inspired by nature. Here, we outline possible robotic design principles derived from the neural and motor systems of sea urchins (Echinoida). Firstly, we review the neurobiology and l...
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