Nicole Boury-Esnault
French researcher of marine sponges
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- PhD Marine Biology Université Paris Cité
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)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.
Nicole Boury-Esnault's Published Works
Published Works
- 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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