Publication List

Books - Peer Reviewed

Colin, Patrick L. 2009  Marine Environments of Palau  Indo-Pacific Press, 414 pp

Colin, Patrick L. and C. Arneson. 1995. Tropical Pacific Invertebrates, Coral Reef Press, 304 pp.

Colin, Patrick L., Yvonne J. Sadovy and Michael L. Domeier. 2003. Manual for the Study and Conservation of Reef Fish Spawning Aggregations  Soc. Conserv. Reef Fish Aggregations Special Publication 1, 98 pp.

Kelly, M. and L.J. Bell. 2016. Splendid Sponges of Palau with additional design by Blayne Herr. NIWA/Coral Reef Research Foundation, 70 pp.

Sadovy de Mitcheson, Y.J. and P.L. Colin (eds.) 2011. Reef Fish Spawning Aggregations: Biology, Research and Management, Fish & Fisheries Series 35, Springer, 621 pp.

Peer Reviewed Publications by CRRF Staff and Associates

Adams, C.L., J.O. McInerneny and M. Kelly. 1999. Indications of relationships between poriferan classes using full-length 18S rRNA gene sequences. In: Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Sponges. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 44: 33-44.

Alderslade, P. 2002. A new soft coral genus (Coelenterata: Octocorallia) from Palau. The Beagle 18:1-8.

Alderslade, P. Catherine S. McFadden. 2007. Pinnule-less polyps: a new genus and new species of Indo-Pacific Clavulariidae and validation of the soft coral genus Acrossota and the family Acrossotidae (Coelenterata: Octocorallia) Zootaxa 1400: 27-44.

Allen, G.R., F. Young and P.L. Colin. 2006. Centropyge abei, a new species of deep-dwelling angelfish (Pomacanthidae) from Sulawesi, Indonesia  Aqua 11(1): 13-18.

Alvarez, B., Hooper, J.N.A. and Van Soest, R.W. M. 2008. Pipestela, a new genus of Axinellidae (Porifera: Demospongiae: Halichondrida) and description of three new species. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 52(2): 105-118.

Alvarez, Belinda and John N.A. Hooper. 2009. Taxonomic revision of the order Halichondrida (Porifera: Demospongiae) from northern Australia. Family Axinellidae. The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, 25: 17-42.

Alvarez, Belinda, Mahima  Krishnan and Karen Gibb. 2007. Analysis of intragenomic variation of the rDNA internal transcribed spacers (ITS) in Halichondrida (Porifera: Demospongiae) Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the UK  87: 1599-1605.

Andradi-Brown, D., Laverick, J., Bejarano, I., Bridge, T., Colin, P.L., Eyal, G., Jones, R., Kahng, S., Reed, J., Smith, T. and Spalding, H., 2016. Threats to mesophotic coral ecosystems and management options. pp.67-82. in Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems A Lifeboat for Coral Reefs? (Baker, E.K., Puglise, K.A. and Harris, P.T., eds.) The United Nations Environment Programme and GRID-Arendal, Nairobi and Arendal.

Andres, M., R.C. Musgrave, D.L. Rudnick, K.L. Zeiden, T. Peacock and J. Park. 2020. On the predictability of sea surface height around Palau. J. of Phys. Ocean. DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-19-0310.1.

Anseeuw, Patrick, Lori J. Bell and M.G. Harasewych.  2017. Bayerotrochus belauensis, a new species of pleurotomariid from the Palau Islands, western Pacific (Gastropoda: Pleurotomariidae).  The Nautilus 131:138-146.

Bayha, K.M. and M.N Dawson.  2010.  New family of allomorphic jellyfishes, Drymonematidae (Scyphozoa, Discomedusae), emphasizes evolution in the functional morphology and trophic ecology of gelatinous zooplankton.  Biol. Bull. 219: 249–267.

Banta, W.C. and S. Santagata. 1996. Annotated species list of the Bryozoa of Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia. Micronesica 29(2): 305-312.

Benayahu Y., T.C.L. Bridge, P.L. Colin, R. Liberman, C.S. McFadden, O. Pizarro, M.H. Scheleyer, E. Shoham, B.T. Reijnen, M. Weis and J. Tanaka.  2019. Octocorals of the Indo-Pacific. pp. 709-728 In: Loya Y., Puglise K., Bridge T. (eds) Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems. Coral Reefs of the World, vol 12. Springer, Cham.

Benayahu, Y., L.P. van Ofwegen and P. Alderslade. 1998.  A case study of variation in two nominal species of Sinularia (Coelenterata: Octocorallia), S. brassica May, 1898, and S. dura (Pratt, 1903), with a proposal for their synonymy. Zool. Verh. Leiden 323:277-309.

Bergquist, P.R. and M. Kelly. 2004. Taxonomy of some Halisarcida and Homoscleromorphida (Porifera:Demospongiae) from the Indo-Pacific. N.Z. J. Mar. Freshwater Res. 38:51-66.

Bethan L. Wynne-Cattanach, Matthew H. Alford, Jennifer A. MacKinnon, Gunnar Voet. 2022. Measurements of Turbulence Generated by Wake Eddies Near a Steep Headland. JGR Oceans 127(8). https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JC018674

Blanchette, F., S. Montroy, S. Patris and M.N Dawson. 2020. Marine lakes as biogeographical islands: a physical model for ecological dynamics in an insular marine lake, Palau. Frontiers of Biogeography. https://doi.org/10.21425/F5FBG47736.

Brand, Uwe, K. Azmy, E. Griesshaber, M. A. Bitner, A. Logan, M. Zuschin, E. Ruggiero, and P. L. Colin. “Carbon isotope composition in modern brachiopod calcite: A case of equilibrium with seawater?.”  Chemical Geology411 (2015): 81-96.

Bruno, J.F., C.E. Siddon, J.D. Witman, P.L. Colin and M.A Toscano. 2001. El Niño related coral bleaching in Palau, Western Caroline Islands. Coral Reefs 20:127-136.

Button, J.B. 2017.  A Characterization of a New Mesophotic Reef in Palau.  MSc. Thesis, Univ. of Delaware, Marine Studies, pp. 1-48.

Carlson, B., Awai, M., Saunders, W.B. and Franklin, E.C., 2021. Nautilus belauensis population demographics and trap yields in Palau were similar between surveys in 1982 and 2015. Marine Ecology Progress Series670, pp.239-245.

Carlson, B.A., J.E. Randall and M.N Dawson. 2008. A new species of Epibulus (Perciformes: Labridae) from the west Pacific. Copeia, 2008(2):476-483.

Cimino, M.A., Anderson, M., Schramek, T., Merrifield, S. and Terrill, E.J., 2019. Towards a Fishing Pressure Prediction System for a Western Pacific EEZ. Scientific reports9(1), p.461. DOI:10.1038/s41598-018-36915-x.

Cimino, M., Colin, P., Schramek, T., Lindfield, S., Domeier, M. and Terrill, E., 2018. Oceanographic, acoustic, and remote approaches reveal the spatio-temporal dynamics of blackfin snapper at an aggregation site in Palau. Marine Ecology Progress Series601, pp.185-201.

Cimino, M.A., S. Patris, G. Ucharm, L.J. Bell & E. Terrill.  2018.  Jellyfish distribution and abundance in relation to the physical habitat of Jellyfish Lake, Palau.  J. of Trop. Ecol. doi:10.1017/S0266467418000044.

Colin, P.L. 1996. Longevity of some coral reef fish spawning aggregations.  Copeia 1996(1): 189-192.

Colin, P.L. 1998. Marine pharmaceuticals from the reef: A view from the field: 76-78, in Hatziolos, M.E., A. J. Hooten, and M. Fodor (eds.) Coral Reefs: Challenges and opportunities for sustainable management. Proc. Assoc. Event 5th World Bank Conf. Environ. Social. Sustainable Devel. 224 pp.

Colin, P.L. 2008. Velasco Reef: a sunken atoll with unusual “remnant” beds of the seagrass Thalassodendron ciliatum. Coral Reefs 27:395.

Colin, P.L. 2010. Aggregation and spawning of the humphead wrasse, Cheilinus undulatus  (Pisces: Labridae) in Palau: General aspects of spawning behaviour. Journal of Fish Biology 76:987-1007.

Colin, P.L. 2010. Fishes as living tracers of connectivity in the tropical western North Atlantic: I. Distribution of the neon gobies, genus Elacatinus (Pisces: Gobiidae). Zootaxa 2370:36-52.

Colin, P.L. 2016. 3.6 Spotlight on the Palau Island group.  Pp. 31-36 in Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems A Lifeboat for Coral Reefs? (Baker, E.K., Puglise, K.A. and Harris, P.T., eds.) The United Nations Environment Programme and GRID-Arendal, Nairobi and Arendal.

Colin, P.L. 2018. Ocean warming and the reefs of Palau. Oceanography 31(2), https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2018.214.

Colin, P.L.  2018.  Thalassodendron ciliatum (Cymodoceaceae) in Palau: occurrence, typhoon impacts and changes over time.  Botanica Marina, doi.org/10.1515/bot-2017-0079.

Colin, P.L. and T.M.S. Johnston. 2020. Measuring Temperature in Coral Reef Environments: Experience, Lessons, and Results from Palau. J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 2020, 8, 0680; doi:10.3390/jmse8090680

Colin, P.L., T.M.S. Johnston, J.A. MacKinnon, C.Y. Ou, D.L. Rudnick, E.J. Terrill, S.J. Lindfield, and H. Batchelor. 2019. Ngaraard Pinnacle, Palau: An undersea “Island” in the flow. Oceanography 32(4):164–173, https://doi.org/ 10.5670/oceanog.2019.422.

Colin P.L. and S.J. Lindfield. 2019. Palau. pp. 285-299. In: Loya Y., Puglise K., Bridge T. (eds) Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems. Coral Reefs of the World, vol 12. Springer, Cham.

Colin, P. L., Sadovy de Mitcheson, Y., & Donaldson, T. J. 2013. Grouper spawning aggregations: Be careful what you measure and how you measure it: A rebuttal of Golbuu and Friedlander (2011). Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science,  123:1-6.

Conroy, J.L., Thompson, D.M., Cobb, K.M., Noone, D., Rea, S. and Legrande, A.N., 2017. Spatiotemporal variability in the δ18O‐salinity relationship of seawater across the tropical Pacific Ocean. Paleoceanography32(5), pp.484-497.

Costion, C., & Plunkett, G. 2016. A revision of the genus Osmoxylon (Araliaceae) in Palau, including two new species. PhytoKeys 58:49-64.

Dawson, Michael N 2015. Island and island-like marine environments.  Global Ecology and Biogeography  25:831-846.

Dawson, M. N 2003. Macro-morphological variation among cryptic species of the moon jellyfish, Aurelia (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa). Mar. Biol. 143:369-379.

Dawson, M.N & W.M. Hamner. 2005. Rapid evolutionary radiation of marine zooplankton in peripheral environments. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 102:9235-9240.

Dawson, M.N 2005a. Morphological variation and systematics in the Scyphozoa: Mastigias (Rhizostomeae, Mastigiidae) -a golden unstandard? Hydrobiologia 537:185-206.

Dawson, M.N 2005b. Five new subspecies of Mastigias (Scyphozoa: Rhizostomeae: Mastigiidae) from marine lakes, Palau, Micronesia. J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K. 85:679-694.

Dawson, M.N, & W.M. Hamner. 2003. Geographic variation and behavioral evolution in marine plankton: the case of Mastigias (Scyphozoa: Rhizostomeae). Mar. Biol. 143:1161-1174.

Dawson, M.N, L.E. Martin, L.J. Bell & S. Patris. Marine Lakes. 2009. Pp. 603-607 in Encyclopedia of Islands (R. Gillespie & D.A. Clague, eds.). University of California Press, Berkeley.

Dawson, M.N. 2000. Variegated mesocosms as alternatives to shore-based planktonkreisels: notes on the husbandry of jellyfish from marine lakes. J. Plankton Res. 22:1673-1682.

Dawson, M.N. 2006. Island evolution in marine lakes. JMBA Global Marine Environment: 26-29.

Dawson, M.N. and D.K. Jacobs. 2001. Molecular evidence for cryptic species of Aurelia aurita (Cnidaria, Scyphozoa). Biol. Bull. 200:92-96.

Dawson, M.N. and L.E. Martin. 2001. Geographic variation and ecological adaptation in Aurelia (Scyphozoa, Semaeostomeae): some implications from molecular phylogenetics. Hydrobiologia 451:259-273.

Dawson, M.N., L.E. Martin and L.K. Penland. 2001. Jellyfish swarms, tourists, and the Christ-child. Hydrobiologia 451:131-144.

Dendy, J., Cordell, S., Giardina, C. P., Hwang, B., Polloi, E., & Rengulbai, K. 2015. The role of remnant forest patches for habitat restoration in degraded areas of Palau Restoration Ecology,  23:872-881.

Dendy, J.; Collins, P.; Mesubed, D.; Cordell, S.; Giardina, C.P.; Uowolo, A.; Iida, A. 2022. Centennial-Scale Land-Cover Change on Babeldaob Island, Palau. Land, 11, 830, https://doi.org/10.3390/land11060830.

Dendy, J., Kuegler, O., Lehman, A.D. and Marquez, W.R., 2020. Forest Status Across Micronesia from an Assessment of Micronesia Challenge Terrestrial Measures and Forest Inventory and Analysis Data1. Micronesica2, pp.1-16.

Djeghri, N., Pondaven, P., Stockenreiter, M., Behl, S., Huang, J.Y., Hansen, T., Patris, S., Ucharm, G. and Stibor, H., 2020. Isotopic and elemental compositions reveal density‐dependent nutrition pathways in a population of mixotrophic jellyfish. Ecosphere11(11), p.e03295.

Djeghri, N., Pondaven, P., Le Grand, F., Bideau, A., Duquesne, N., Stockenreiter, M., Behl, S., Huang, J.Y., Hansen, T., Patris, S. and Ucharm, G., 2021. High trophic plasticity in the mixotrophic Mastigias papua-Symbiodiniaceae holobiont: implications for the ecology of zooxanthellate jellyfishes. Marine Ecology Progress Series666, pp.73-88.

Domeier ML, Colin PL, Donaldson TJ, Heyman WD, Pet JS, Russell M, Sadovy Y, Samoilys MA, Smith A, Yeeting BA, Smith S.  2002. Transforming coral reef conservation: reef fish spawning aggregations component. Spawning Aggregation Working Group Report, The Nature Conservancy, Hawaii, April 22, 2002, 85 pp.

Ellis, Simon and Larry Sharron. 2001. The Culture of Soft Corals (Order: Alcyonacea) for the Marine Aquarium Trade. Center for Tropical and Subtropical Aquaculture Publication No. 137, 77 pp.

Erwin, Patrick M. and Robert W. Thacker. 2007. Phylogenetic analyses of marine sponges within the order Verongida: a comparison of morphological and molecular data. Invertebrate Biology 126(3): 220-234.

Etpison, M.T. and P.L. Colin. 2018. Blue Water Spawning by Moorish Idols and Orangespine Surgeonfish in Palau: Is it a “Suicide Mission”? aqua: International Journal of Ichthyology 23(4):121-136.

Fabricius, K.E., J.C. Mieog, P.L. Colin, D. Idip and M.J.H. Van Oppen. 2004. Identity and diversity of coral endosymbionts (zooxanthellae) from three Palauan reefs with contrasting bleaching, temperature and shading histories. Mol. Ecol. 13:2445-2458.

Fabricius, K.E., P. Alderslade, G. Williams, P.L. Colin and Y. Golbuu. 2007. Octocorallia in Palau, Micronesia: Effects of biogeography and coast influences on local and regional biodiversity: 79-91 in Kayane, H, M. Omori, K. Fabricius, E. Verheij, P. Colin, Y. Golbuu, and Y. Yukihira (eds). Coral Reefs of Palau, Palau International Coral Reef Center, 238 pp.

Fernandez, J.C., Kelly, M. and Bell, L.J., 2017. Cinachyrella anatriaenilla sp. nov., a new tetillid sponge with microacanthoxeas from American Samoa in the South Pacific.Zootaxa4258(1), pp.81-90.

Fernandez, J.C.C., S. Peixinho and E Hadju.  2012.  Phylogeny and an integrated biogeography of Acanthotetilla Burton, 1959 (Demospongiae: Spirophorida: Tetillidae): two-way traffic on the peri-African track.  Zootaxa 3402: 1–23.

Gallimore, E., Terrill, E., Pietruszka, A., Gee, J., Nager, A. and Hess, R., 2020. Magnetic survey and autonomous target reacquisition with a scalar magnetometer on a small AUV. Journal of Field Robotics, 37 (7), 1246-1266.

Glasby, C.J., P.C. Schroeder and M.T. Aguado.  2012.  Branching out: a remarkable new branching syllid (Annelida) living in a Petrosia sponge (Porifera: Demospongiae)  Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society,  164:481–497.

Gopalakrishnan, G., & Cornuelle, B. D., 2019. Palau’s effects on regional-scale ocean circulation. Oceanogr., 32 (4), 126–135. https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2019.418

Grottoli, Andrea G. 2006. Monthly resolved stable oxygen isotope record in a Palauan sclerosponge Acanthocheatetes wellsi for the period of 1977-2001. Proceedings of 10th International Coral Reef Symposium, 572-579.

Hamner, W.M., P.L. Colin and P.P. Hamner. 2007. Export-import dynamics of zooplankton on a coral reef in Palau  Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 334: 83-92.

Hooper, J.N.A. 2002. Family Desmoxyidae Hallmann, 1917.: 755-772 in Hooper, J.N.A. and Soest, R.W.M. van (eds.) Systema Porifera: A Guide to the Classification of Sponges. Vol 1. Plenum, New York.

Hooper, J.N.A., J.A. Kennedy and R.J. Quinn. 2002. Biodiversity “hotspots”, patterns of richness and endemism, and taxonomic affinities of tropical Australian sponges (Porifera). Biodiversity and Conservation 11:851-885.

Jaiteh, V. F., Lindfield, S. J., Mangubhai, S., Warren, C., Fitzpatrick, B., & Loneragan, N. 2016. Higher Abundance Of Marine Predators And Changes In Fishers’ Behavior Following Spatial Protection Within The World’s Biggest Shark Fishery. Frontiers in Marine Science, doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2016.00043.

Jaiteh, V., Peatman, T., Lindfield, S., Gilman, E. and Nicol, S., 2021. Bycatch Estimates From a Pacific Tuna Longline Fishery Provide a Baseline for Understanding the Long-Term Benefits of a Large, Blue Water Marine Sanctuary. Frontiers in Marine Science, p.1462.

Johnston, T.M.S., 2022. Stirring and Mixing in the Wake of Angaur and Peleliu Islands, Palau. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans127(5), p.e2022JC018544.

Johnston, T.M.S., et al. 2019a. Flow Encountering Abrupt Topography (FLEAT): A multiscale observational and modeling program to understand how topography affects flows in the western North Pacific. Oceanography 32(4):10–21, https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2019.407.

Johnston, T.M.S. and Colin, P.L., 2021. Upwelling and downwelling driven by the North Equatorial Countercurrent and internal waves at Hatohobei Island and Helen Reef, Palau. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, p.e2021JC017606.

Johnston, T.M.S., MacKinnon, J.A., Colin, P.L., Haley Jr, P.J., Lermusiaux, P.F., Lucas, A.J., Merrifield, M.A., Merrifield, S.T., Mirabito, C., Nash, J.D. and Ou, C.Y., 2019b. Energy and Momentum Lost to Wake Eddies and Lee Waves Generated by the North Equatorial Current and Tidal Flows at Peleliu, Palau. Oceanography32(4), p.110-125, https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2019.417.

Johnston, T.M.S. and Ou, C.Y., 2020. Mean flow due to momentum flux convergence from internal tides upstream of a submarine ridge near Merir Island, Palau. Earth and Space Science Open Archive ESSOAr, https://doi.org/10.1002/essoar.10502859.1.

Johnston, T.M.S. and Ou, C.Y., 2021. Momentum Flux Convergence From Internal Tides in the North Equatorial Countercurrent Upstream of a Submarine Ridge Near Merir Island, Palau. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans126(2), p.e2020JC016770.

Johnston, T.M.S. and Rudnick, D.L., 2022. Stirring and mixing in the wake of Velasco Reef, Palau. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, p.e2022JC018745.

Johnston, T.M.S., Schonau, M., Paluszkiewicz, T., MacKinnon, J., Arbic, B.,Colin, P., . . . Voet, G., 2019. Flow encountering abrupt topography  (FLEAT): a multiscale observational and modeling program to understand how topography affects flow in the western North Pacific. Oceanogr., 32 (4), 10–21. https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2019.407

Kelly, M. 2000. Description of a new lithistid sponge from northeastern New Zealand, and consideration of the phylogenetic affinities of families Corralistidae and Neopeltidae. Zoosystema 22(2):1-19.

Kelly, M. 2007. The Marine Fauna of New Zealand: Porifera: “Lithistid”, Demospongiae (Rock sponges). NIWA Biodiversity, Memoir 121: 100 pp.

Kelly, M., P. Cardenas, N. Rush, C. Sim-Smith, D. MacPherson, M. Page and L.J. Bell.  2019. Molecular study supports the position of the New Zealand endemic genus Lamellomorpha in the family Vulcanellidae (Porifera, Demospongiae, Tetractinellida), with the description of three new species.   European J. of Taxonomy 506: 1–25,  doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2019.506

Kelly, M. and T. Samaai. 2002. Family Podospongiidae De Laubenfels, 1936.: 694-702 in Hooper, J.N.A. and Soest, R.W.M. van (eds.) Systema Porifera: A Guide to the Classification of Sponges. Vol. 1. Plenum, New York.

Kelly, M., J. Hooper, V. Paul, G. Paulay, R. van Soest & R. de Weerdt. Taxonomic inventory of the sponges (Porifera) of the Mariana Islands. 35-36: 100-120.

Kelly, M., L.J. Bell and J. S Buckeridge. 1999. Treasures from the deep: “Living fossil” sponge finds in northern New Zealand are a key to the evolution of the demosponges. Water & Atmosphere 7(2):11-12.

Kelly-Borges, M. and C. Valentine. 1995. The sponges of the tropical island region of Oceania: A taxonomic status review :83-120. in: Maragos, J.E., M.N.A. Peterson, L.G. Eldredge, J.E.Bardack and H.F. Takeuchi (eds.) Marine and Coastal Biodiversity in the Tropical Island Pacific Region: Vol. 1. Species Systematics and Information Management Priorities. East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii.

Kelly-Borges, M. and J. Vacelet. 1995. A revision of Diacarnus and Negombata (Demospongiae: Latruncullidae) from the west central Pacific and Red Sea. Mem. Qld. Museum 38(2): 477-503.

Ladd, S. N., & Sachs, J. P. 2015. Influence of salinity on hydrogen isotope fractionation in Rhizophora mangroves from Micronesia. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta,  168: 206-221.

Ladd, S.N. and Sachs, J.P. 2017. 2H/1H fractionation in lipids of the mangrove Bruguiera gymnorhiza increases with salinity in marine lakes of Palau. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 204:300-312.

Lambert, Gretchen. 2002. Nonindigenous Ascidians in Tropical Waters. Pacific Science 56(3):291-298.

Langlois T, Goetze J, Bond T, .. Lindfield, S..et al. 2020. A field and video annotation guide for baited remote underwater stereo-video surveys of demersal fish assemblages. Methods Ecol Evol. 2020;00:1–9. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13470.

Longenecker K., T.E. Roberts and P.L. Colin. 2019. Papua New Guinea. pp. 321-336. In: Loya Y., Puglise K., Bridge T. (eds) Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems. Coral Reefs of the World, vol 12. Springer, Cham.

Ma, K.Y., P. L. Colin, Y. Sadovy de Mitcheson and M.N Dawson.  2019.   Phylogeography and conservation biogeography of the humphead wrasse, Cheilinus undulatus.  Frontiers of Biogeography, doi:10.21425/F5FBG42697.

MacKinnon, J.A., Alford, M.H., Voet, G., Zeiden, K., Johnston, T.S., Siegelman, M., Merrifield, S. and Merrifield, M. 2019. Eddy wake generation from broadband currents near Palau. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 124. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JC014945.

Mah, C. 2005. A phylogeny of Iconaster and Glyphodiscus (Echinodermata, Asteroidea, Valvatida, Goniasteridae) with descriptions of four new species. Zoosystema 27(1): 137-161.

Mah, C.L. 2003. Astrosarkus idipi, a new Indo-Pacific genus and species of Oreasteridae (Valvatida:Asteroidea) displaying extreme endoskeletal reduction. Bull. Mar. Sci. 73(3):685-698.

Maloney, K.N., Botts, R.T., Davis, T.S., Okada, B.K., Maloney, E.M., Leber, C.A., Alvarado, O., Brayton, C., Caraballo-Rodríguez, A.M., Chari, J.V. and Chicoine, B., 2020. Cryptic Species Account for the Seemingly Idiosyncratic Secondary Metabolism of Sarcophyton glaucum Specimens Collected in Palau. Journal of Natural Products83(3), pp.693-705.

Marino, S., A. Bauman, J. Miles, A. Kitalong, A. Bukurou, C. Mersai, E. Verheij, I. Olkeriil, K. Basilius, P. Colin, S. Patris, S. Victor, W. Andrew, J. Miles and Y. Golbuu. 2008. The State of Coral Reef Ecosystems of Palau In: The State of Coral Reef Ecosystems of the United States and Pacific Freely Associated States: 2008.  NOAA Technical Memorandum NOS NCCOS 73.

Martin, L.E. 2001. Limitations on the use of impermeable mesocosms for ecological experiments involving Aurelia sp. (Scyphozoa: Seamaeostomeae). J. Plankton Res. 23:1-10.

Martin, L.E., M.N Dawson, L.J. Bell and P.L. Colin. 2005. Marine lake ecosystem dynamics illustrate ENSO variation in the tropical western Pacific. Biol. Lett. 2(1):  144-147.

Martin, Laura. 1999. Population Biology and Ecology Aurelia sp.(Scyphozoa: Semaeostomeae) in a Tropical Meromictic Marine Lake in Palau, Micronesia, PhD Disssertation, UCLA.

McFadden, C. S., & Van Ofwegen, L. P. 2013. Molecular phylogenetic evidence supports a new family of octocorals and a new genus of Alcyoniidae (Octocorallia, Alcyonacea) ZooKeys, 346:59-83.

McFadden, C. S., Brown, A. S., Brayton, C., Hunt, C. B., & van Ofwegen, L. P. (2014). Application of DNA barcoding in biodiversity studies of shallow-water octocorals: molecular proxies agree with morphological estimates of species richness in Palau. Coral Reefs,  33(2), 275-286.

McFadden, C.S., L.P. van Ofwegen, E.J. Beckman, Y. Benayahu, and P. Alderslade. 2009. Molecular systematics of the speciose Indo-Pacific soft coral genus, Sinularia (Anthozoa: Octocorallia) Invertebrate Biology 128(4): 303ΓÇô323.

McFadden, Catherine S., P. Alderslade, L.P. van Ofwegen, H. Johnsen, and A. Rusmevichientong 2006. Phylogenetic relationships within the tropical soft coral genera Sarcophyton and Lobophytum (Anthozoa, Octocorallia) Invertebrate Biology 125(4): 288-305.

McFadden, Catherine S., Scott C. France, Juan A. Sanchez & Phil Alderslade. 2006. A molecular phylogenetic analysis of the Octocorallia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) based on mitochondrial protein-coding sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 41: 513-527.

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McKenzie, L.J., Yoshida, R.L., Aini, J.W., Andréfouet, S., Colin, P.L., Cullen-Unsworth, L.C., Hughes, A.T., Payri, C.E., Rota, M., Shaw, C. and Skelton, P.A., 2021b. Seagrass ecosystems of the Pacific Island Countries and Territories: A global bright spot. Marine Pollution Bulletin167, p.112308.

Merrifield, S.T., P.L. Colin, T. Cook, C. Garcia-Moreno, J.A. MacKinnon, M. Otero, T.A. Schramek, M. Siegelman, H.L. Simmons, and E.J. Terrill. 2019a. Island wakes observed from high-frequency current mapping radar. Oceanography 32(4):92–101, https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2019.415.

Merrifield, S.T., T.A. Schramek, S. Celona, A.B. Villas Boas, P.L. Colin, and E.J. Terrill. 2019b. Typhoon-forced waves around a western Pacific island nation. Oceanography 32(4):56–65, https://doi.org/ 10.5670/ oceanog.2019.411.

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Messing, C.G. 2007. The crinoid fauna (Echinodermata: Crinoidea) of Palau. Pac. Sci. 61:91-111.

Miles, W., Z. Grecni, E. Matsutaro, P. Colin, V. Keener, Y. Golbuu, et al., 2020. Climate Change in Palau: Indicators and Considerations for Key Sectors. Report for the Pacific Islands Regional Climate Assessment. Honolulu, HI: East-West Center, https://www.eastwestcenter.org/PIRCA

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Oddone, Axel, R. Onori, F. Carocci, Y. Sadovy, S. Suharti, P. L. Colin, and M. Vasconcellos. 2010.  Estimating reef habitat coverage suitable for the humphead wrasse, Cheilinus undulatus, using remote sensing. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, pp. 27.

Opresko, D.M. 2004. Revision of the Antipatharia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa). Part IV. Establishment of a new family, Aphanipathidae. Zool. Med. Leiden 78:209-240.

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Patris, S.W., M.N Dawson, L.J. Bell, L.E. Martin, P.L. Colin & G. Ucharm.  2012.  Ongeim’l Tketau: Jellyfish Lake. Coral Reef Research Foundation & Etpison Museum, Palau.  44 pp.

Patris, S.W., L.E. Martin, L.J. Bell & M.N Dawson.  2019.  Expansion of an introduced sea anemone population, and its associations with native species in a tropical marine lake (Jellyfish Lake, Palau). Frontiers of Biogeog. DOI:10.21425/F5FBG41048.

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Povak, N.A., Giardina, C.P., Hessburg, P.F., Reynolds, K.M., Salter, R.B., Heider, C., Salminen, E. and MacKenzie, R., 2020. A decision support tool for the conservation of tropical forest and nearshore environments on Babeldaob Island, Palau. Forest Ecology and Management476, p.118480.

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Qiu, B., S. Chen, B.S. Powell, P.L. Colin, D.L. Rudnick, and M.C. Schönau. 2019. Nonlinear short-term upper ocean circulation variability in the tropical western Pacific. Oceanography 32(4):22–31, https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2019.408.

Qiu, B., Colin, P.L. and Chen, S., 2021. Time‐Varying Upper Ocean Circulation and Control of Coral Bleaching in the Western Tropical Pacific. Geophysical Research Letters48(14), p.e2021GL093632.

Randall. J.E. and P.L. Colin. 2009. Elacatinus lobeli, a new cleaning goby from Belize and Honduras. Zootaxa 2173: 31-40.

Rasotto, M. B., Y. Sadovy de Mitcheson and G. Mitcheson.  2010.  Male body size predicts sperm number in the mandarinfish.  J. Zool. 281:161–167.

Rogowski, P., Otero, M., Hazard, J., Muschamp, T., Katz, S. and Terrill, E., 2021. XMET—An Unattended Meteorological Sensing System for Austere Environments. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology38(1), pp.17-30.

Rudnick, D. L., Zeiden, K. L., Ou, C., Johnston, T. M. S., MacKinnon, J. A., Alford, M. H., & Voet, G., 2019. Understanding vorticity caused by flow passing an island. Oceanogr., 32 (4), 66–73. doi: 10.5670/oceanog.2019.412

Sachs, J.P., Blois, J.L., McGee, T., Wolhowe, M., Haberle, S., Clark, G. and Atahan, P., 2018. Southward Shift of the Pacific ITCZ During the Holocene. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 33(12), pp.1383-1395.

Sachs, J.P., D. Sachse, R.H. Smittenberg, Z. Zhang, D.S. Battisti and S. Golubic. 2009. Southward movement of the Pacific intertropical convergence zone AD 1400-1850. Nature Geoscience 2:519-525.

Sadovy, Y, P.L. Colin and M. Domeier. 1994. Aggregation and spawning of the tiger grouper, Mycteroperca tigris (Pisces: Serranidae)  Copeia 1994(2): 511-516.

Sadovy De Mitcheson, Y.J., Colin, P.L., Lindfield, S.J. and Bukurrou, A., 2020. A decade of monitoring an Indo-Pacific grouper spawning aggregation: Benefits of protection and importance of survey design. Frontiers in Marine Science7:571878, https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.571878

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Sadovy de Mitcheson, Y., A. Cornish, M. Domeier, P. Colin, M. Russell and K. Lindeman. 2008. A global database for spawning aggregations of reef fishes  Cons. Biol. 22(5): 1233-1244.

Sadovy de Mitcheson, Y., S.R. Suharti and P.L. Colin.  2019.  Quantifying the rare: Baselines for the endangered Napoleon Wrasse, Cheilinus undulatus, and implications for conservation.  Aquatic Conserv: Mar Freshw Ecosyst. 2019;1–17. DOI: 10.1002/aqc.3124.

Sadovy de Mitcheson, Y., Colin, P.L., Lindfield, S.J. and A. Bukurrou. 2020. A Decade of Monitoring an Indo-Pacific Grouper Spawning Aggregation: Benefits of Protection and Importance of Survey Design. Front. Mar. Sci. 7:571878. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2020.571878.

Samaai, T. and M. Kelly. 2002. Family Latrunculiidae Topsent, 1922: 708-719. in Hooper, J.N.A. and Soest, R.W.M. van (eds.) Systema Porifera: A Guide to the Classification of Sponges. Vol. 1, Plenum, New York.

Samaai, T., Gibbons, M. J., and Kelly, M. 1999. Morphological phylogenetic considerations on the relationships of Isodictya Bowerbank 1864. Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Sponges. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 44: 517-524.

Samaai, T., M.J. Gibbons, M. Kelly and M. Davies-Coleman. 2003. South African Latrunculiidae (Porifera: Demospongiae: Poecilosclerida): descriptions of new species of Latrunculia du Bocage, Strongylodesma Levi, and Tsitsikamma Samaai & Kelly. Zootaxa 371: 1-26.

Samaai, Toufiek, Mark J. Gibbons and Michelle Kelly. 2009. A revision of the genus Strongylodesma Levi (Porifera: Demospongiae: Latrunculiidae) with descriptions of four new species. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 89: 1689-1702.

Samaai, Toufiek, Ruwen Pillay and Michelle Kelly. 2009. Cymbastela sodwaniensis sp. nov. (Halichondrida: Axinellidae): a first record of this sponge genus in South Africa. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 89: 1679-1687.

Sánchez J.A., L.F. Dueñas, S.J. Rowley, F.L. Gonzalez-Zapata, D.C. Vergara, S.M. Montaño-Salazar, I. Calixto-Botía, C.E. Gomez, R. Abeytia, P.L. Colin, R.T.S. Cordeiro and C.D. Pérez. 2019. Gorgonian Corals. pp. 729-747. In: Loya Y., Puglise K., Bridge T. (eds) Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems. Coral Reefs of the World, vol 12. Springer, Cham.

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Schönau, M. C., and Rudnick, D. L. 2015. Glider observations of the North Equatorial Current in the western tropical Pacific Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans,  120(5), 3586-3605.

Schönau, M. C., Rudnick, D. L., Gopalakrishnan, G., Cornuelle, B. D., & Qiu, B., 2022. Mean, annual, and interannual circulation and volume transport in the western tropical North Pacific from the Western Pacific Ocean State Estimates (WPOSE). Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 127, e2021JC018213. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JC018213

Schönau, M.C., H.W. Wijesekera, W.J. Teague,P.L. Colin, G. Gopalakrishnan, D.L. Rudnick, B.D. Cornuelle, Z.R. Hallock, and D.W. Wang. 2019. The end of an El Nino: A view from Palau. Oceanography 32(4):32–45, https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2019.409.

Schramek, T.A. 2018.  Ocean-Island Interactions in the Western Pacific.  PhD. Thesis, Univ. of California, San Diego, Oceanography, pp. 1-133.

Schramek, T.A., P.L. Colin, M.A. Merrifield and E.J. Terrill.  2018. Depth-dependent thermal stress around corals in the tropical Pacific Ocean. Geophysical Research Letters. doi: 10.1029/2018GL078782.

Schramek, T.A., P.L. Colin, E.J. Terrill and B.D. Cornuelle.  2019. Coastly trapped waves around Palau.  Continental Shelf Research 191 (2019) 104002, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csr.2019.104002.

Schramek, T.A., B.D. Cornuelle, G. Gopalakrishnan,P.L. Colin, S.J. Rowley, M.A. Merrifield, and E.J. Terrill. 2019. Tropical western Pacific thermal structure and its relationship to ocean surface variables: A numerical state estimate and forereef temperature records. Oceanography 32(4):156–163, https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2019.421.

Schuster, A., Pisera, A., Kelly, M., Bell, L.J., Pomponi, S.A., WÖrheide, G. and Erpenbeck, D., 2018. New species and a molecular dating analysis of Vetulina Schmidt, 1879 (Porifera: Demospongiae: Sphaerocladina) reveal an ancient relict fauna with Tethys origin. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.

Schuster, A., S.A. Pomponi, A. Pisera, P. Cárdenas, M. Kelly, G. Wörheide, and D. Erpenbeck. 2019. Systematics of ‘lithistid’ tetractinellid demosponges from the Tropical Western Atlantic – implications for phylodiversity and bathymetric distribution. PeerJ Preprints. 7:e27673v1.  https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27673v1

Siegelman, M., Merrifield, M. A., Firing, E., MacKinnon, J. A., Alford, M. H., Voet, G., and E. Terrill. 2019. Observations of near-inertial surface currents at Palau. Oceanogr., 32 (4), 74–83. doi: 10.5670/oceanog.2019.413

Simmons, H.L., B.S. Powell, S.T. Merrifield, S.E. Zedler, and P.L. Colin. 2019. Dynamical downscaling of equatorial flow response to Palau. Oceanography 32(4):84–91, https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2019.414.

Sinniger, F., Ballantine, D., Bejarano, I., Colin, P., Pochon, X., Pomponi, S., Puglise, K.A., Pyle, R., Reaka, M., Spalding, H. and Weil, E., 2016. Biodiversity of mesophotic coral ecosystems. pp.50-62, in Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems A Lifeboat for Coral Reefs? (Baker, E.K., Puglise, K.A. and Harris, P.T., eds.) The United Nations Environment Programme and GRID-Arendal, Nairobi and Arendal.

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Smittenberg, R.H., C. Saenger, M.N Dawson and J.P. Sachs. 2011. Compound-specific D/H ratios of the marine lakes of Palau as proxies for West Pacific Warm Pool hydrologic variability. Quaternary Sci. Reviews 30:921-933.

St. Laurent, L., T. Ijichi, S.T. Merrifield, J. Shapiro, and H.L. Simmons. 2019. Turbulence and vorticity in the wake of Palau. Oceanography 32(4):102–109, https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2019.416.

Swift, H.F. 2016.  The ecological and evolutionary effects of environmental perturbations on populations and communities.  PhD. Thesis, Univ. of California, Merced, Quantitative and Systems Biology, pp. 1-142.

Swift, H. F., Daglio, L. G., & Dawson, M. N. 2016. Three routes to crypsis: Stasis, convergence, and parallelism in the Mastigias species complex (Scyphozoa, Rhizostomeae) Molecular phylogenetics and evolution,  99, 103-115.

Swift, H.F. and M.N Dawson. 2020. Demographic, Environmental, and Phenotypic Change but Genetic Consistency in the Jellyfish Mastigias papua. Biol. Bull.  239(2), pp.80-94.

Teague, W.J., Wijesekera, H.W., Wang, D.W. et al. Current observations on and around a deep-ocean island/reef: northern Palau and Velasco Reef. J Oceanogr (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10872-022-00647-4.

Terrill, E.J., Moline, M.A., Scannon, P.J., Gallimore, E., Shramek, T., Nager, A., Hess, R., Cimino, M., Colin, P.L., Pietruszka, A. and Anderson, M.R., 2017. Project Recover: Extending the Applications of Unmanned Platforms and Autonomy to Support Underwater MIA Searches. Oceanography30(2), pp.150-159.

Trono, G.C., Jr. 1997. Field Guide and Atlas of the Seaweed Resources of the Philippines. Bookmark, Inc. Manila. 306 pp.

Voet, G., Alford, M.H., MacKinnon, J.A. and Nash, J.D., 2020. Topographic Form Drag on Tides and Low-Frequency Flow: Observations of Nonlinear Lee Waves over a Tall Submarine Ridge near Palau. Journal of Physical Oceanography50(5), pp.1489-1507.

Wijesekera, H.W., Wesson, J.C., Wang, D.W., Teague, W.J. and Hallock, Z.R., 2020. Observations of Flow Separation and Mixing around the Northern Palau Island/Ridge. Journal of Physical Oceanography50(9), pp.2529-2559.

Williams, B. 2009. Biogeochemistry of Soft Corals and Black Corals, and Implications for Paleoceanography in the Western Tropical Pacific Ph.D Dissertation, Ohio State University (Geological Sciences).

Williams, B., and A. Grottoli. 2010. Stable nitrogen and carbon isotopic (δ15N and δ13C) variability in shallow tropical Pacific soft coral and black coral taxa and implications for paleoceanographic reconstructions, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 74:5280-5288.

Williams, B., Grottoli, A.. 2011. Solution and laser ablation inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry measurements of Br, I, Pb, Mn, Cd, Zn, and B in the organic skeleton of soft corals and black corals. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems 12: Q03011.

Williams, B., Grottoli, A.G.  2010. Recent shoaling of the nutricline and thermocline in the western tropical Pacific. Geophysical Research Letters 37: L22601.

Williams, B., Thibodeau, B., Chikaraishi, Y., Ohkouchi, N., Walnum, A., Grottoli, A.G. and Colin, P.L., 2017. Consistency in coral skeletal amino acid composition offshore of Palau in the western Pacific warm pool indicates no impact of decadal variability in nitricline depth on primary productivity. Limnology and Oceanography62(2), pp.399-407.

Williams, G.C. 2000a. Two new genera of soft corals (Anthozoa:Alcyoniidae) from South Africa, with a discussion of diversity and endemism in the southern African Octocorallian fauna. Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. 52(6):65-75.

Williams, G.C. 2000b. A new species of the soft coral genus Eleutherobia Putter, 1900 (Coelenterata: Alcyoniidae) from the Tonga Islands. Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. 52(13):159-169.

Williams, G.C. 2003. Capitate taxa of the soft coral genus Eleutherobia (Octocorallia: Alcyoniidae) from Palau and South Africa; a new species and a new combination. Zool. Verh. Leiden 345:419-436.

Williams, G.C. and J. Starmer. 2000. A new genus and species of soft coral (Octocorallia:Alcyoniidae) from south Africa. Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. 52(8): 87-96.

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Zedler, S. E., Powell, B., Qiu, B., & D.L. Rudnick. 2019. Energy transfer in the western tropical Pacific. Oceanogr., 32 (4), 136–145. doi: 10.5670/oceanog.2019 .419

Zeiden, K.L., MacKinnon, J.A., Alford, M.H., Rudnick, D.L., Voet, G. and Wijesekera, H., 2021. Broadband Submesoscale Vorticity Generated by Flow around an Island. Journal of Physical Oceanography51(4), pp.1301-1317.

Zeiden, K.L., Rudnick, D.L. and MacKinnon, J.A., 2019. Glider Observations of a Mesoscale Oceanic Island Wake. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 49(9), pp.2217-2235.

Zeiden, K. L., D. L. Rudnick, J. A. MacKinnon, V. Hormann, and L. Centurioni, 2022: Vorticity in the wake of Palau from Lagrangian surface drifters. Journal of Physical Oceanography; doi: 10.1175/JPO-D-21-0252.1

Marine Species Diversity/Ecology publications based on materials collected by CRRF

Alvarez, F., J.L. Villalobod & T. M. Iliffe  2010. A new species of mud shrimp of the genus Espeleonaushonia Juarrero & Martinez-Iglesias, 1997 (Decapoda: Gebiidea: Laomediidae) from Palau. Zootaxa 2429:61-68.

Ardelean, A. 2003. Revision of the family Actinodendridae (Cnidaria: Actiniaria). PhD Dissertation, University of Kansas, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 273 pp.

Arellano, S.M. and D.G. Fautin. 2001. Redescription and range extension of the sea anemone Exocoelactis actinostoloides (Wassilieff, 1908), with revision of genus Exocoelactis (Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Actinaria). Zoosystema 23(4):645-657.

Cole, Kathleen S. and Douglas F. Hoese. 2001. Gonad morphology, colony demography and evidence for hermaphroditism in Gobiodon okinawae (Teleostei, Gobiidae). Environmental Biology of Fishes 61: 161-173.

Concepcion GT, S. E. Kahng, M. W. Crepeau, E. C. Franklin, S. L. Coles, R. J. Toonen. 2010. Resolving natural ranges and marine invasions in a globally distributed octocoral (genus Carijoa). Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 401: 113-127.

Crowther, A. L. 2013. Character evolution in light of phylogenetic analysis and taxonomic revision of the zooxanthellate sea anemone families Thalassianthidae and Aliciidae.  PhD Dissertation, University of Kansas, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 312 pp.

Cruz-Rivera, E. and V.J. Paul.  2000.  Coral reef benthic cyanobacteria as food and refuge: Diversity, chemistry and complex interactions   Proceedings 9th International Coral Reef Symposium, Bali, Indonesia 23-27 October 2000,Vol. 1.

DeGrave, Sammy. 2004. A new species of Salmoneus (Crustacea: Decapoda: Alpheidae) from Palau. Bull. De L’Institut Royal Des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Bioilogie 74: 41-48.

Elliot, J. K., S. C. Lougheed, B. Bateman, L. K. McPhee and P. T. Boag. 1999. Molecular phylogenetic evidence for the evolution of specialization in anemonefishes. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 266: 677-685.

Fautin, D.G. and J.C. den Hartog. 2003. An unusual sea anemone from slope depths of the tropical west Pacific: range extension and redescription of Isactinernus quadrilobatus Carlgren, 1918 (Cnidaria: Actiniaria: Actinernidae). Zool. Verh. Leiden 345:103-116.

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Hentschel, Ute, Jorn Hopke, Matthias Horn, Anja B. Friedrich, Michael Wagner, Jorg Hacker,and Bradley S. Moore. 2002. Molecular Evidence for a Uniform Microbial Community in Sponges from Different Oceans. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 68:4431-4440.

Hoeksema, B. W. (2014). The “Fungia patella group” (Scleractinia, Fungiidae) revisited with a description of the mini mushroom coral Cycloseris boschmai sp. n. ZooKeys, (371), 57-84.

Hoeksema, Bert W. 2007. Delineation of the Indo-Malayan Centre of Maximum Marine Biodiversity: The Coral Triangle.:117-178 in W. Renema (ed.), Biogeography, Time, and Place: Distributions, Barriers, and Islands, Springer Verlag.

Jensen, P.C. and Mafnas, C. 2006. Biogeography of the marine actinomycete Salinispora. Environmental Microbiology 8(11): 1881-1888.

Kakani Katija & John O. Dabiri. 2009. A viscosity-enhanced mechanism for biogenic ocean mixing. Nature 460: 624-627.

Lobban, C. S., Schefter, M., & Donaldson, T. J. 2014. Cluster dynamics in Maristentor dinoferus, a gregarious benthic ciliate with zooxanthellae and a hypericin-like pigment, in relation to biofilm grazing by the fish Ctenochaetus striatus. Symbiosis  63(3), 137-147.

Lourie, Sara A. and John E. Randall. 2003. A New Pygmy Seahorse, Hippocampus denise (Teleostei: Syngnathidae), from the Indo-Pacific. Zoological Studies 42(2): 284-291.

Ma, K. Y., de Mitcheson, Y. S., & Chu, K. H. 2013. Isolation and characterization of microsatellite markers from the camouflage grouper, Epinephelus polyphekadion (Epinephelidae). Conservation Genetics Resources 5:1129-1132.

Marchenkov, Andrey & Geoff A. Boxshall. 2005. Three new species of Enterocola van Beneden, 1860 (Crustacea: Copepoda: Cyclopoida) from ascidian hosts. Systematic Parasitology 61: 223-234.

Morrow, C., P. Cárdenas, N. Boury-Esnault, B. Picton, G. McCormack, R. Van Soest, A. Collins, N. Redmond, C. Maggs,Sigwart, and L.A. Allcock. 2019. Integrating morphological and molecular taxonomy with the revised concept of Stelligeridae (Porifera: Demospongiae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 187:31-81. https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz017

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Nichols, Scott A. and Penelope A.G. Barnes. 2005. A molecular phylogeny and historical biogeography of the marine sponge genus Placospongia (Phylum Porifera) indicate low dispersal capabilities and widespread crypsis. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 323: 1-15.

Nichols, Scott A., 2005. An evaluation of support for order-level monophyly and interrelationships within the class Demospongiae using partial data from the large subunit rDNA and cytochrome oxidase subunit. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 34:81-96.

Osborne, M. C., Dunbar, R. B., Mucciarone, D. A., Druffel, E., & Sanchez-Cabeza, J. A. A 215-yr coral δ18O time series from Palau records dynamics of the West Pacific Warm Pool following the end of the Little Ice Age. Coral Reefs 33:1-13.

Palomares, M.L.D. and D. Pauly. 2009. The growth of jellyfishes. Hydrobiologia 616:11-21.

Rundell, Rebecca J.  2010. Diversity and Conservation of the Land Snail Fauna of the Western Pacific Islands of Belau (Republic of Palau, Oceania). American Malacological Bulletin 28(1-2):81-90.

Reijnen, B. T., McFadden, C. S., Hermanlimianto, Y. T., & van Ofwegen, L. P. 2014. A molecular and morphological exploration of the generic boundaries in the family Melithaeidae (Coelenterata: Octocorallia) and its taxonomic consequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution  70:383-401.

Rhodes, K. KL Rhodes, RI Lewis, RW Chapman, Y Sadovy.  2003. Genetic structure of camouflage grouper, Epinephelus polyphekadion (Pisces: Serranidae), in the western central Pacific. Marine Biology 142(4): 771-776.

Ridley, Christian P., D. John Faulkner, and Margo G. Haygood. 2005. Investigation of Oscillatoria spongeliae-dominated bacterial communities in four Dictyoceratid sponges. Applied and Environmental Microbiology  71:7366-7375.

Ridley, Christian P., Patricia R. Bergquist, Mary Kay Harper, D. John Faulkner, John N.A. Hooper, and Margo G. Haygood,. 2005. Speciation and biosynthetic variation in four Dictyoceratid sponges and their cyanobacterial symbiont, Oscillatoria spongeliae. Chemistry & Biology 12: 397-406.

Ritson-Williams, Raphael and Valerie J. Paul. 2007. Marine benthic invertebrates use multimodal cues for defense against reef fish. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 340: 29-39.

Ritson-Williams, Raphael, Sonia Shjegstad, & Valerie Paul. 2003. Host specificity of four corallivorous Phestilla nudibranchs (Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia). Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 255: 207-218.

Sharp, Koty H., Boreth Eam, D. John Faulkner and Margo G. Haygood. 2007. Vertical Transmission of Diverse Microbes in the Tropical Sponge Corticium sp. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 73(2): 622-629.

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Thacker, R.W. 2005. Impacts of shading on sponge-cyanobacteria symbioses: A comparison between host-specific and generalist associations. Integr. Comp. Biol. 45:369-376.

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Natural Products Chemistry Publications based on CRRF specimens

Antunes, Edith Martins. 2003. Pyrroloiminoquinone metabolites from South African latrunculid sponges, Ph.D. Dissertation Rhodes University, 190 pp.

Araki, Takahiro, Shigeki Matsunaga, Yoichi Nakao, Kazuo Furihata, Lyndon West, D. John Faulkner and Nobuhiro Fusetani. 2008. Koshikamide B, a Cytotoxic Peptide Lactone from a Marine Sponge Theonella sp. J. Org. Chem. 73: 7889-7894.

Bokesch, HR, Laura K. Cartner, Richard W. Fuller, Jennifer A. Wilson, Curtis J. Henrich, James A. Kelley, Kirk R. Gustafson, James B. McMahon and Tawnya C. McKee. 2010. Inhibition of ABCG2-mediated drug efflux by naphthopyrones from marine crinoids. Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters 20(13): 3848-3850.

Cao, Shugeng, Caleb Foster, John S. Lazob and David G. I. Kingston. 2005. Sesterterpenoids and an alkaloid from a Thorectandra sp. as inhibitors of the phosphatase Cdc25B. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry 13: 5094-5098.

Cao, Shugeng, Caleb Foster, Marni Brisson, John S. Lazob and David G. I. Kingston. 2005. Halenaquinone and xestoquinone derivatives, inhibitors of Cdc25B phosphatase from a Xestospongia sp. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry 13: 999-1003.

Cárdenas, P.; Gamage, J.; Hettiarachchi, C.M.; Gunasekera, S. Good Practices in Sponge Natural Product Studies: Revising Vouchers with Isomalabaricane Triterpenes. Mar. Drugs 2022, 20, 190. https://doi.org/10.3390/md20030190

Charan, Romila D., Mckee, Tawnya C. and Boyd, Michael R. 2004. Cytotoxic Alkaloids from the Marine Sponge Thorectandra sp. Natural Product Research 18(3): 225-229.

Charan, Romila D., Tawnya C. McKee, and Michael R. Boyd. 2002. Thorectandrols C, D, and E, new sesterterpenes from the marine sponge Thorectandra sp. J. Nat. Prod. 65: 492-495.

Charan, Romila D., Tawnya C. McKee, Kirk R. Gustafson, Lewis K. Pannell and Michael R. Boyd. 2002. Thorectandramine, a novel carboline alkaloid from the marine sponge Thorectandra sp. Tetrahedron Letters 43: 5201-5204.

Clement, Jason A., Jirouta Kitagaki, Yili Yang, Carrie J. Saucedo, Barry R. O’Keefe, Allan M. Weissman, Tawnya C. McKee, and James B. McMahon. 2008. Discovery of new pyridoacridine alkaloids from Lissoclinum cf. badium that inhibit the ubiquitin ligase activity of Hdm2 and stabilize p53. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry 16: 10022-10028.

Clement, Jason A., Mei Li, Sidney M. Hecht, and David G. I. Kingston. 2006. Bioactive Isomalabaricane Triterpenoids from Rhabdastrella globostellata that stabilize the binding of DNA Polymerase ß to DNA. J. Nat. Prod. 69: 373-376.

Compagnone, Reinaldo S. and Ivette C. Pifia. 1998. Antileishmanial Cyclic Peroxides from the Palauan Sponge Plakortis aff. angulospiculatus. Tetrahedron 54: 3057-3068.

Copp, Brent R., Carola M. Wassvik, Gretchen Lambert, and Michael J. Page. 2000. Isolation and Characterization of the New Purine 1,3,7-Trimethylisoguanine from the New Zealand Ascidian Pseudodistoma cereum. J. Nat. Prod. 63: 1168-1169.

Dai, Jingqiu, Yang Liu, Yu-Dong Zhou, and Dale G. Nagle. 2007. Hypoxia-Selective antitumor agents: Norsesterterpene peroxides from the marine sponge Diacarnus levii preferentially suppress the growth of tumor cells under hypoxic conditions J. Nat. Prod. 70: 130-133.

Davies-Coleman MT. 2005. Bioactive Natural Products from Southern African Marine Invertebrates. In: Atta-ur-Rahman, editor. Studies in Natural Product Chemistry (Bioactive Natural Products Part L). Amsterdam: Elsevier. pp 61-70.

Davies-Coleman, M.T., C.L. Cantrell, K.R. Gustafson, J.A. Beutler, L.K. Pannell and M.R. Boyd. 2000. Stolonic Acids A and B, new cytotoxic cyclic peroxides from an Indian Ocean ascidian Stolonica species. J. Nat. Prod. 63:1411-1413.

Davies-Coleman, Michael T. and Denzil R. Beukes. 2004. Ten years of marine natural products research at Rhodes University. South African Journal of Science 100: 539-544.

Đorđević, M. and Radulović, N., 2020. Ascidian halogen-containing secondary metabolites from the family didemnidae. Facta Universitatis, Series Physics, Chemistry and Technology, pp.97-130.

Eder, C., P. Schupp, P. Proksch, V. Wray, K. Steube, C.E. Muller, W. Frobenius, M. Herderich and R. van Soest. 1998. Bioactive pyridoacridine alkaloids from the Micronesian sponge Oceanapia sp. J. Nat. Prod. 61:301-305.

Erickson, Karen L., Kirk R. Gustafson, Dennis J. Milanowski, Lewis K. Pannell, John R. Klosec and Michael R. Boyd. 2003. Myriastramides A-C, new modified cyclic peptides from the Philippines marine sponge Myriastra clavosa. Tetrahedron 59:10231-10238.

Erickson, Karen L., Kirk R. Gustafson, Lewis K. Pannell, John A. Beutler, and Michael R. Boyd. 2002. New Dimeric Macrolide Glycosides from the Marine Sponge Myriastra clavosa. J. Nat. Prod.  65: 1303-1306.

Faulkner, D. J., D.J. Newman and G.M. Cragg. 2004. Investigations of the marine flora and fauna of the Islands of Palau. Nat. Prod. Rep. 21:50-76.

Fu, Xiong and Francis J. Schmitz. 1996. New brominated diphenyl ether from an unidentified species of Dysidea sponge. 13C NMR data for some brominated diphenyl ethers. J. Nat. Prod. 59: 1102-1103.

Fu, Xiong and Francis J. Schmitz. 1999. 7-Hydroxyceratinamine, a new cyanoformamide-containing metabolite from a sponge, Aplysinella sp. J. Nat. Prod. 62: 1072-1073.

Fu, Xiong, Alana J. Palomar, Eugene P. Hong, Francis J. Schmitz, and Frederick A. Valeriote. 2004. Cytotoxic lissoclimide-type diterpenes from the molluscs Pleurobranchus albiguttatus and Pleurobranchus forskalii. J. Nat. Prod. 67: 1415-1418.

Fu, Xiong, Eugene P. Hong and Francis J. Schmitz. 2000. New polypropionate pyrones from the Philippine sacoglossan mollusc Placobranchus ocellatus. Tetrahedron 56:8989-8993.

Fu, Xiong, John R. Barnes, Trang Do, and Francis J. Schmitz. 1997. New imidazole alkaloids from the sponge Leucetta chagosensis. J. Nat. Prod. 60: 497-498.

Fu, Xiong, Pei-Ling Ng, Francis J. Schmitz, M. Bilayet Hossain, Dick van der Helm, and Michelle Kelly-Borges. 1996. Makaluvic acids A and B: Novel alkaloids from the marine sponge Zyzzya fuliginosus. J. Nat. Prod. 59: 1104-1106.

Fu, Xiong, Syed A. Abbas, Francis J. Schmitz, Ilan Vidavskyt, Michael L. Gross, Maureen Laney, Randall C. Schatzman, and Ronnel D. Cabuslay. 1997. New Acetylenic Metabolites from the Marine Sponge Pellina triangulata. Tetrahedron 53(3): 799-814.

Grkovic, T., Whitson, E.L., Rabe, D.C, Gardella, R.S. Bottaro, D.P., Linehan, W.M., McMahon, J.B., Gustafson, K.R., McKee, T.C. 2011. Identification and evaluation of soft coral diterpenes as inhibitors of HIF-2α  induced gene expression. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters 21(7): 2113-2115.

Grkovic, T., Akee, R.K., Thornburg, C.C., Trinh, S.K., Britt, J.R., Harris, M.J., Evans, J.R., Kang, U., Ensel, S., Henrich, C.J. and Gustafson, K.R., 2020. National Cancer Institute (NCI) program for natural products discovery: rapid isolation and identification of biologically active natural products from the NCI prefractionated library. ACS chemical biology15(4), pp.1104-1114.

Grkovic, T., Ruchirawat, S., Kittakoop, P., Grothaus, P.G., Evans, J.R., Britt, J.R., Newman, D.J., Mahidol, C. and O’Keefe, B.R., 2021. A New Bispyrroloiminoquinone Alkaloid From a Thai Collection of Clavelina sp. Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry.

Hopmann, C. and J.D. Faulkner. 1997. Lissoketal, a spiroketal from the Palauan ascidian Lissoclinum voeltzkowi. Tetrahedron Letters 38(2): 169-170.

Jiang, W., Wang, D., Wilson, B.A., Kang, U., Bokesch, H.R., Smith, E.A., Wamiru, A., Goncharova, E.I., Voeller, D., Lipkowitz, S. and O’Keefe, B.R., 2021. Agelasine Diterpenoids and Cbl-b inhibitory ageliferins from the coralline demosponge astrosclera willeyana. Marine drugs19(7), p.361.

Jiang, W., Wang, D., Wilson, B.A., Voeller, D., Bokesch, H.R., Smith, E.A., Lipkowitz, S., O’Keefe, B.R. and Gustafson, K.R., 2021. Sinularamides A–G, Terpenoid-Derived Spermidine and Spermine Conjugates with Casitas B-Lineage Lymphoma Proto-Oncogene B (Cbl-b) Inhibitory Activities from a Sinularia sp. Soft Coral. Journal of Natural Products.

Keffer, J.L., A. Plaza and C. A. Bewley. 2009.  Motualevic acids A-F, antimicrobial acids from the sponge Siliquariaspongia sp.  Organic Letters 11(5):1087-1090.

Keyzers RA, Arendse CE, Hendricks DT, Samaai T, Davies-Coleman MT. 2005.  Makaluvic acids from the South African latrunculid sponge Strongylodesma aliwaliensis. J. Nat. Prod. 68:506-510.

Kim, C.K. and Gustafson, K.R., 2020. Calyxaprenols AD, New Merohexaprenoid Metabolites from the Marine Sponge Calyx sp. Natural Product Sciences26(4), pp.303-310.

Kim, C.K., Wang, D., Bokesch, H.R., Fuller, R.W., Smith, E., Henrich, C.J., Durrant, D.E., Morrison, D.K., Bewley, C.A. and Gustafson, K.R., 2020. Swinhopeptolides A and B: Cyclic Depsipeptides from the Sponge Theonella swinhoei That Inhibit Ras/Raf Interaction. Journal of natural products83(4), pp.1288-1294.

Kwak, J.H., F.J. Schmitz and G.C. Williams. 2001. Milolides, new briarane diterpenoids from the western Pacific octocoral Briareum stechei. J. Nat. Prod. 64:754-760.

Kwan, J. C., Tianero, M. D. B., Donia, M. S., Wyche, T. P., Bugni, T. S., & Schmidt, E. W. 2014. Host Control of Symbiont Natural Product Chemistry in Cryptic Populations of the Tunicate Lissoclinum patella. PloS one,  9(5):e95850.

Li, J., Du, L., Kelly, M., Zhou, Y. D., & Nagle, D. G. 2013. Structures and potential antitumor activity of sesterterpenes from the marine sponge Hyrtios communis. Journal of Natural Products,  76(8):1492-1497.

Li, F., Kelly, M. and Tasdemir, D., 2021. Chemistry, Chemotaxonomy and Biological Activity of the Latrunculid Sponges (Order Poecilosclerida, Family Latrunculiidae). Marine drugs19(1), p.27.

Liu, H.B., Imler, G.H., Baldridge, K.K., O’Connor, R.D., Siegel, J.S., Deschamps, J.R. and Bewley, C.A., 2020. X-ray crystallography and unexpected chiroptical properties reassign the configuration of haliclonadiamine. Journal of the American Chemical Society142(6), pp.2755-2759.

Lu, Qing and D. John Faulkner. 1997. Two New Sesterterpenoids and a New 9,11-Secosterol from Spongia matamata. J. Nat. Prod. 1997, 60, 195-198.

Lu, Qing and Faulkner, D. John. 1997a. Two 11-Acetoxysterols from the Palauan Soft Coral Lobophytum cf. pauciflorum. Natural Product Research,10(3): 231-237.

McPhail, K.L., M.T. Davies-Coleman & J. Starmer. 2001. Sequestered chemistry of the arminacean nudibranch Leminda millecra in Algoa Bay, South Africa. J. Nat. Prod. 64: 1183-1190.

Miller, Eric D., Christopher A. Kauffman, Paul R. Jensen, & William Fenical. 2007. Piperazimycins: Cytotoxic hexadepsipeptides from a marine-derived bacterium of the genus Streptomyces. J. Org. Chem. 72, 323-330.

Mitchell, Scott S., Denise Rhodes, Frederic D. Bushman, and D. John Faulkner. 2000. Cyclodidemniserinol trisulfate, a sulfated serinolipid from the Palauan ascidian Didemnum guttatum that inhibits HIV-1 Integrase. Org. Lett. 2, No. 11: 1605-1607.

Morgan, J. B, Mahdi, F., Liu, Y. Coothankandaswamy, V. Jekabsons, M.B. Johnson, T.A., Sashidhara, K.V., Crews, P. Nagle, D.G. Zhou, Y-D. 2010. The marine sponge metabolite mycothiazole: A novel prototype mitochondrial complex I inhibitor. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry 18:5988-5994.

Nicholas, Gillian M., Lisa L. Eckman, Gerald L. Newton, Robert C. Fahey, Satyajit Raya and Carole A. Bewley. 2003. Inhibition and kinetics of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium smegmatis mycothiol-S-conjugate amidase by natural product inhibitors. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry 11:601-608.

Oku, N, K Takada, RW Fuller, JA Wilson, Peach, ML, Pannell, LK, McMahon, JB, Gustafson, K.R. 2010. Isolation, structural elucidation, and absolute stereochemistry of enigmazole A, a cytotoxic phosphomacrolide from the Papua New Guinea marine sponge Cinachyrella enigmatica. Journal American Chemical Society 132(30): 10278-85.

Orsini, Michael A., Lewis K. Pannell, and Karen L. Erickson. 2001. Polychlorinated Acetamides from the Cyanobacterium Microcoleus lyngbyaceus. J. Nat. Prod. 64, 572-577.

Plaza, A, JL Keffer, JR Lloyd, PL Colin , CA Bewley 2010. Paltolides A–C, anabaenopeptin-type peptides from the Palau sponge Theonella swinhoei. J. Natural Products 73(3): 485-488.

Plaza, A., Baker. H.A., Bewley, C.A. 2008. Mirabilin, an anti-tumor macrolide lactam from the marine sponge Siliquariaspongia mirabilis. J. Natural Products 71: 473-477.

Plaza, A., Gustchina, E., Baker, H.A., Kelly, M., Bewley, C.A. 2007. Mirabamides A-D, Depsipeptides from the sponge Siliquariaspongia mirabilis that inhibit HIV-1 fusion. J. Natural Products 70: 1753-1760.

Plaza, Alberto, G. Bifulco, M. Masullo, J. R. Lloyd, J. L. Keffer, P. L. Colin, J. NA Hooper, L. J. Bell, and C. A. Bewley. 2010.  Mutremdamide A and Koshikamides C-H, Peptide Inhibitors of HIV-1 Entry from Different Theonella Species.  Journal of Organic Chemistry  75(13):4344-4355.

Qureshi, A. J. Salva, M.K. Harper, and D. J. Faulkner. 1998. New Cyclic Peroxides from the Philippine Sponge Plakinastrella sp. J. Nat. Prod. 61:1539-1542.

Qureshi, A., P. Colin and J.D. Faulkner. 2000. Microsclerodermins F-I, antitumor and antifungal cyclic peptides from the lithistid sponge Microscleroderma sp. Tetrahedron 56: 3679-3685.

Rashid, M. A., Gustafson, K. R., Cartner, L. K., Pannell, L. K., and Boyd, M. R. 2001. New nitrogenous constituents from the South African marine ascidian Pseudodistoma sp. Tetrahedron 57:5751-5755.

Rashid, Mohammad A., Gustafson, Kirk R. and Boyd, Michael R. 2000. Pellynol I, A new cytotoxic polyacetylene from the sponge Pellina sp., Natural Product Research 14(5): 387-392.

Rashid, Mohammad A., Kirk R. Gustafson and Michael R. Boyd. 2001. New chondropsin macrolide lactams from marine sponges in the genus Ircinia. Tetrahedron Letters 42: 1623-1626.

Rashid, Mohammad A., Kirk R. Gustafson, Jamie L. Boswell, and Michael R. Boyd. 2000. Haligramides A and B, Two New Cytotoxic Hexapeptides from the Marine Sponge Haliclona nigra. J. Nat. Prod. 63: 956-959.

Reddy, M. Venkata Rami and Faulkner, D. John. 1997. ‘3,3’-Dimethylxestospongin C, a new bis-1-oxaquinolizidine alkaloid from the Palauan sponge Xestospongia sp. Natural Product Research,11(1): 53-59.

Salomon, Christine E. and D. John Faulkner. 2002. Localization studies of bioactive cyclic peptides in the ascidian Lissoclinum patella. J. Nat. Prod. 65: 689-692.

Sandler, J., P. Colin, M. Kelly and W. Fenical. 2006. Cytotoxic macrolides from a new species of the deep-water marine sponge  Leiodermatium.  J. Org. Chem. 71(19): 7245-7251.

Sandler, J.S., P.L. Colin, J.N.A. Hooper and D.J. Faulkner. 2002.  Cytotoxic B-carbolines and cyclic peroxides from the Palauan sponge Plakortis nigra. J. Nat. Prod. 65:1258-1261.

Schmidt, Eric W. D. John Faulkner. 1996. Palauolol, a new anti-inflammatory sesterterpene from the sponge Fascaplysinopsis sp. from Palau. Tetrahedron letters 37(23): 3951-3954.

Schmidt, Eric W., Carmen Raventos-Suarez, Marc Bifano, Ana T. Menendez, Craig R. Fairchild, and D. John Faulkner. 2004. Scleritodermin A, a cytotoxic cyclic peptide from the Lithistid sponge Scleritoderma nodosum. J. Nat. Prod. 67: 475-478.

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