Publications by authors named "Montasser A Al-Hammady"
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- Climate change is causing problems for sea creatures like sea anemones and upside-down jellyfish, mainly from warmer oceans and harmful sunlight.
- Scientists studied how these animals react when exposed to heat and UV light, finding they change their body chemistry.
- They found different chemicals in jellyfish and sea anemones, showing that heat increases amino acids in jellyfish and both amino acids and sugars in sea anemones after a few days of UV exposure.
sp. soft corals are rich in cembranoid diterpenes, which represent the main chemical defense of corals against their natural predators in addition to their myriad biological effects in humans. Quantitative NMR (qNMR) was applied for assessing the diterpene variation in 16 soft coral specimens in the context of their genotype, origin, and growing habitat.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMarine life has developed unique metabolic and physiologic capabilities and advanced symbiotic relationships to survive in the varied and complex marine ecosystems. Herein, metabolite composition of the soft coral genus Sarcophyton was profiled with respect to its species and different habitats along the coastal Egyptian Red Sea via (1)H NMR and ultra performance liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (UPLC-MS) large-scale metabolomics analyses. The current study extends the application of comparative secondary metabolite profiling from plants to corals revealing for metabolite compositional differences among its species via a comparative MS and NMR approach.
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