Nicole Boury-Esnault

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PhD Marine Biology Université Paris Cité

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According to Wikipedia, Nicole Boury-Esnault is a retired French researcher of sponges, formerly at Centre d'Océanologie de Marseille, Aix-Marseille University. Research In 1995, Nicole Boury-Esnault and Jean Vacelet discovered a species of carnivorous sponges of the genus Asbestopluma, during an exploration of a shallow cave in the Mediterranean. Caves can recapitulate the environment of the deep sea-bed due to the darkness and lack of nutrient, permitting the study of deep-sea-like regions in shallow areas of water. Carnivorous sponges, lacking the normal filter feeding apparatus, had been previously discovered during deep-sea trawls and presumed to be damaged since they did not have a known feeding mechanism. The discovery of members of the family in shallow water meant that they could be experimentally tested, which is when Boury-Esnault and Vacelet observed feeding on small crustaceans. Later they also reported on a member of the genus which used both carnivory and methanotrophy to survive in deep-sea expeditions of the Barbados trench.

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Nicole Boury-Esnault's Published Works

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Phylogenomics Revives Traditional Views on Deep Animal Relationships (2009) (666)
Global Diversity of Sponges (Porifera) (2012) (473)
World Porifera Database (2008) (424)
Thesaurus of Sponge Morphology (1997) (298)
Sponge paraphyly and the origin of Metazoa (2001) (243)
DOES COSMOPOLITANISM RESULT FROM OVERCONSERVATIVE SYSTEMATICS? A CASE STUDY USING THE MARINE SPONGE CHONDRILLA NUCULA (1999) (215)
Molecular phylogeny of Demospongiae: implications for classification and scenarios of character evolution. (2004) (198)
Sponge phylogeny, animal monophyly, and the origin of the nervous system: 18S rRNA evidence (1996) (166)
Type IV collagen in sponges, the missing link in basement membrane ubiquity * (1996) (165)
Carnivorous sponges (1995) (147)
A methanotrophic carnivorous sponge (1995) (145)
Sponge systematics facing new challenges. (2012) (144)
Phylogeny and evolution of calcareous sponges: monophyly of calcinea and calcaronea, high level of morphological homoplasy, and the primitive nature of axial symmetry. (2003) (128)
Reconstruction of Family-Level Phylogenetic Relationships within Demospongiae (Porifera) Using Nuclear Encoded Housekeeping Genes (2013) (117)
Hexactinellid cave, a unique deep-sea habitat in the scuba zone (1994) (117)
Phylogeny and systematics of demospongiae in light of new small-subunit ribosomal DNA (18S) sequences. (2013) (114)
Symbiosis between methane-oxidizing bacteria and a deep-sea carnivorous cladorhizid sponge (1996) (112)
Larval development in the Homoscleromorpha (Porifera, Demospongiae) (2005) (101)
Biodegradation of shells of the black pearl oyster, Pinctada margaritifera var. cumingii, by microborers and sponges of French Polynesia (1996) (94)
Congruence between nuclear and mitochondrial genes in Demospongiae: a new hypothesis for relationships within the G4 clade (Porifera: Demospongiae). (2012) (86)
Genetic evidence for cryptic speciation in allopatric populations of two cosmopolitan species of the calcareous sponge genusClathrina (1991) (82)
Phylogenetic analysis of the Hsp70 sequences reveals the monophyly of Metazoa and specific phylogenetic relationships between animals and fungi. (1998) (81)
Cryptic speciation in a high gene flow scenario in the oviparous marine sponge Chondrosia reniformis (2001) (77)
Genetic and cytological divergence between colour morphs of the Mediterranean sponge Oscarella lobularis Schmidt (Porifera, Demospongiae, Oscarellidae) (1992) (75)
Systematics and evolution of Demospongiae (2006) (73)
Reproduction of a hexactinellid sponge: first description of gastrulation by cellular delamination in the Porifera (1999) (73)
An analysis of partial 28S ribosomal RNA sequences suggests early radiations of sponges. (1992) (70)
Atlas of Sponge Morphology (1991) (64)
Reassessment of homology of morphological characters in tetractinellid sponges based on molecular data. (1998) (63)
Comparative study of the choanosome of Porifera: 1. The Homoscleromorpha (1984) (60)
A new species of carnivorous sponge (Demospongiae: Cladorhizidae) from a Mediterranean cave (1996) (60)
Cleavage pattern in Oscarella species (Porifera, Demospongiae, Homoscleromorpha): transmission of maternal cells and symbiotic bacteria (2002) (60)
Polyphyly of "sclerosponges" (Porifera, Demospongiae) supported by 28S ribosomal sequences. (1997) (60)
Molecular systematics of sponges (Porifera) (2000) (52)
Cytological evidence for cryptic speciation in Mediterranean Oscarella species (Porifera, Homoscleromorpha) (1996) (51)
Genetic evidence for extensive cryptic speciation in the subtidal sponge Plakina trilopha (Porifera:Demospongiae:Homoscleromorpha) from the Western Mediterranean (1996) (51)
Sponges without skeleton: A new Mediterranean genus of Homoscleromorpha (Porifera, Demospongiae) (1995) (47)
Biochemical genetic divergence and systematics in sponges of the genera Corticium and Oscarella (Demospongiae: Homoscleromorpha) in the Mediterranean Sea (1992) (47)
Comparative study of putative conspecific sponge populations from both sides of the Isthmus of Panama (1999) (46)
Verpacamides A-D, a sequence of C11N5 diketopiperazines relating cyclo(Pro-Pro) to cyclo(Pro-Arg), from the marine sponge Axinella vaceleti: possible biogenetic precursors of pyrrole-2-aminoimidazole alkaloids. (2006) (45)
A revision of the supraspecific classification of the subclass Calcinea (Porifera, class Calcarea) (1990) (45)
Embryogenesis in the glass sponge Oopsacas minuta: Formation of syncytia by fusion of blastomeres. (2006) (44)
Agelasines J, K, and L from the Solomon Islands Marine Sponge Agelas cf. mauritiana. (2008) (43)
NK homeobox genes with choanocyte-specific expression in homoscleromorph sponges (2008) (40)
The systematics of carnivorous sponges. (2016) (38)
Improving nomenclatural consistency: a decade of experience in the World Register of Marine Species (2017) (37)
Class Calcarea Bowerbank, 1864 (2002) (37)
Polyphyly of the genus Axinella and of the family Axinellidae (Porifera: Demospongiaep). (2010) (36)
A new species of carnivorous deep-sea sponge (Demospongiae: Cladorhizidae) associated with methanotrophic bacteria (2002) (35)
Metamorphosis of cinctoblastula larvae (Homoscleromorpha, porifera) (2007) (34)
Comparative study of the choanosome of porifera: II. The keratose sponges (1989) (33)
Taxonomic revision of the Mediterranean Plakina Schulze (Porifera, Demospongiae, Homoscleromorpha) (1998) (32)
Molecular and morphological description of a new species of Halisarca (Demospongiae: Halisarcida) from Mediterranean Sea and a redescription of the type species Halisarca dujardini (2011) (30)
The integrative taxonomic approach applied to porifera: a case study of the homoscleromorpha. (2013) (30)
Anatomy, cytology and symbiotic bacteria of four Mediterranean species of Plakina Schulze, 1880 (Demospongiae, Homosclerophorida) (1999) (29)
The value of cytological criteria in distinguishing sponges at the species level: the example of the genus Polymastia (1994) (28)
MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY OF CALCAREOUS SPONGES USING 18S RRNA AND 28S RRNA SEQUENCES (2004) (27)
Celtodoryx girardae gen. nov sp nov. , a new sponge species (Poecilosclerida : Demospongiae) invading the Gulf of Morbihan (North East Atlantic, France) (2006) (27)
Sponge Fatty Acids, 5. Characterization of Complete Series of 2-Hydroxy Long-Chain Fatty Acids in Phospholipids of Two Senegalese Marine Sponges from the Family Suberitidae: Pseudosuberites sp. and Suberites massa (1993) (25)
Order Leucosolenida Hartman, 1958 (2002) (25)
Trikentramine, an unusual pyrrole derivative from the sponge trikentrion loeve carter (1990) (25)
Taxonomy of Porifera (1987) (24)
Order Clathrinida Hartman, 1958 (2002) (23)
Cladorhizidae (Porifera, Demospongiae, Poecilosclerida) of the deep Atlantic collected during Ifremer cruises, with a biogeographic overview of the Atlantic species (2013) (21)
New phospholipid fatty acids from the marine spongeCinachyrella alloclada uliczka (1992) (21)
A new Discorhabdella (Porifera, Demospongiae), a new Tethyan relict of pre-Messinian biota? (1992) (21)
How a collaborative integrated taxonomic effort has trained new spongiologists and improved knowledge of Martinique Island (French Antilles, eastern Caribbean Sea) marine biodiversity (2017) (20)
Chemical divergence between two sibling species of Oscarella (Porifera) from the Mediterranean Sea (2004) (20)
A new species of Axinyssa Lendenfeld, 1897 (Porifera, Demospongiae, Halichondrida) from the Senegalese coast (2002) (19)
The Polymastia Species (Demosponges, Hadromerida) of the Atlantic Area (1987) (18)
Calcareous Sponges Collected by N.O. Thalassa on the Continental Margin of the Bay of Biscaye: I. Calcinea (1987) (18)
Conservation and Phylogeny of a Novel Family of Non-Hox Genes of the Antp Class in Demospongiae (Porifera) (2006) (18)
RECENT CONTRIBUTION OF GENETICS TO THE STUDY OF SPONGE SYSTEMATICS AND BIOLOGY (2004) (17)
Mediterranean hexactinellid sponges, with the description of a new Sympagella species (Porifera, Hexactinellida) (2014) (17)
Order Lithonida Vacelet, 1981, Recent (2002) (17)
Cosmopolitism in sponges: The "complex" Guitarra fimbriata with description of a new species of Guitarra from the northeast Atlantic (1993) (17)
Sterol composition of three marine sponge species from the genus Cinachyrella (1992) (16)
Family Polymastiidae Gray, 1867 (2002) (16)
Axiphenylalaninium and axityrosinium, modified amino acids from the Mediterranean marine sponge Axinella polypoides. (2009) (15)
Order Chondrosida Boury-Esnault & Lopès, 1985. Family Chondrillidae Gray, 1872 (2002) (15)
New 17-Methyl-13-Octadecenoic and 3,16-Docosadienoic Acids from the Sponge Polymastia penicillus (2009) (15)
Catalogue of the Duchassaing & Michelotti (1864) collection of West Indian sponges (Porifera) (1983) (15)
Integrative taxonomic description of Plakina kanaky, a new polychromatic sponge species from New Caledonia (Porifera: Homoscleromorpha) (2015) (14)
New hexactinellid sponges from deep Mediterranean canyons. (2017) (11)
A cell type in sponges involved in the metabolism of glycogen (1977) (11)
Order Baerida Borojevic, Boury-Esnault & Vacelet, 2000 (2002) (10)
Nor-sterols in Axinella proliferans, sponge from the Indian Ocean (1996) (10)
Alleged cosmopolitanism in sponges: the example of a common Arctic Polymastia (Porifera, Demospongiae, Hadromerida) (2004) (9)
Integrating morphological and molecular taxonomy with the revised concept of Stelligeridae (Porifera: Demospongiae) (2019) (9)
Sponge inventory of the French Mediterranean waters, with an emphasis on cave-dwelling species. (2018) (9)
Three-dimensional fate mapping of larval tissues through metamorphosis in the glass sponge Oopsacas minuta (2016) (8)
Redescription of the type species of the genus Polymastia Bowerbank, 1864 (Porifera, Demospongiae, Hadromerida) (2000) (8)
Order Murrayonida Vacelet, 1981 (2002) (8)
GLYCOLIPIDS FROM MARINE SPONGES: MONOGLYCOSYLCERAMIDES AND ALKYLDIGLYCOSYLGLYCEROLS: ISOLATION, CHARACTERIZATION AND BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY (2004) (4)
Spermatogenesis in the carnivorous sponge Lycopodina hypogea (Porifera, Demospongiae) (2022) (3)
Unusual sterol composition and classification of two marine sponge families. (2000) (3)
Taxonomy of Porifera : from the N.E. Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea (1987) (3)
World Porifera Database (WPD) (2009) (3)
Research Infrastructures offer capacity to address scientific questions never attempted before: Are all taxa equal? (2018) (2)
Taxonomic revision of the MediterraneanPlakinaSchulze (Porifera, Demospongiae, Homoscleromorpha) (1998) (2)
World Register of marine Cave Species (WoRCS): a tool for evaluating sponge diversity in marine caves and anchialine systems of the world (2017) (1)
Figure 3. Tretodictyum Reiswigi N In New Hexactinellid Sponges From Deep Mediterranean Canyons (2017) (0)
Molecular phylogeography of Mediterranean and Eastern Atlantic sponges of the genus Aplysina. (2006) (0)
Figure 2. Farrea Bowerbanki N In New Hexactinellid Sponges From Deep Mediterranean Canyons (2017) (0)
The Station Marine d'Endoume, Marseille: 150 years of natural history. (2023) (0)
Systematic account of new Porifera (Demospongiae) records from the oceanic Island of Madeira (NE Atlantic). (2018) (0)
Figure 5 In New Hexactinellid Sponges From Deep Mediterranean Canyons (2017) (0)
Preface. (2018) (0)
What is the state of the art in molecular systematics of marine Porifera (1998) (0)
Cladorhizidae (Porifera, Demospongiae, Poecilosclerida) of the deep Atlantic collected during Ifremer cruises, with a biogeographic overview of the Atlantic species—ERRATUM (2014) (0)
P-89 FROM DIKETOPIPERAZINES TO 2-AMINOIMIDAZOLINONES MARINE METABOLITES : ISOLATION AND SYNTHESIS (2006) (0)
A checklist of the southwestern Madagascar sponge fauna with taxonomic updates based on the current systematics (2023) (0)

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