| interspecific transmission and recovery of tcbs-induced disease between acanthaster planci and linckia guildingi. | the susceptibility of the coral-feeding crown-of-thorns starfish acanthaster planci to disease may provide an avenue with which to effectively control population outbreaks that have caused severe and widespread coral loss in the indo-pacific. injecting thiosulfate-citrate-bile-sucrose (tcbs) agar into a. planci tissues induced a disease characterized by dermal lesions, loss of skin turgor, collapsed spines, and accumulation of mucus on spine tips. moreover, the symptoms (and presumably the agent ... | 2012 | 22968793 |
| effect of marine glycosides on adenosinetriphosphatase activity. | marine glycosides from the sea cucumbers actinopyga agassizi, holothuria atra, bohadschia argus, cucumaria fraudatrix, astichopus multifidus and thelenota ananas inhibit both na+-k+ atpase and mg2+-atpase of rat brain in vitro. the glycoside-cholesterol complex of these compounds does not influence atpase activity. asterosaponins from starfishes linckia guildingi and linckia laevigata possess a slight inhibiting effect. the triterpene glycosides from sea cucumbers are more powerful inhibitors th ... | 1982 | 6213068 |