Loukaci, A.; Muricy, G.; Brouard, J.-P.; Guyot, M.; Vacelet, J.; Boury-Esnault, N. (2004). Chemical divergence between two sibling species of Oscarella (Porifera) from the Mediterranean Sea. Biochemical Systematics and Ecology. 32: 893-899.
Chemical investigation of Oscarella lobularis and O. tuberculata confirmed the specific status
of these two sibling species already suggested by allozyme electrophoresis and cytological
analyses. O. tuberculata yielded alkylpyrrole-aldehydes and sterol endoperoxides, when O.
lobularis furnished only 6-11-eicosanoic acid, methyl ester.
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Biodiversity, Taxonomic and ecological diversity