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List of works by Joana R. Xavier

A Phylogenetic Overview of Sponge-inhabiting Barnacles and Their Host Specificity (Crustacea, Cirripedia)

scientific article published on 14 August 2015

A framework for the development of a global standardised marine taxon reference image database (SMarTaR-ID) to support image-based analyses

scientific article published on 31 December 2019

A new carnivorous sponge,Chondrocladia robertballardisp. nov. (Porifera: Cladorhizidae) from two north-east Atlantic seamounts

scientific article published on 23 September 2014

A policy-based framework for the determination of management options to protect vulnerable marine ecosystems under the EU deep-sea access regulations

scientific article published in 2021

Antimicrobial activity of heterotrophic bacterial communities from the marine sponge Erylus discophorus (Astrophorida, Geodiidae)

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Biodiversity, environmental drivers, and sustainability of the global deep-sea sponge microbiome

scientific article published in 2022

Comparative Metagenomics Reveals the Distinctive Adaptive Features of the Spongia officinalis Endosymbiotic Consortium

scientific article published on 14 December 2017

Description of new chiactine-bearing sponges provides insights into the higher classification of Calcaronea (Porifera: Calcarea)

scientific article published on 13 June 2019

Development of 10 microsatellite markers for the Atlanto-Mediterranean sponge Petrosia ficiformis

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Effects of sample handling and cultivation bias on the specificity of bacterial communities in keratose marine sponges

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Erylusamides: Novel Atypical Glycolipids from Erylus cf. deficiens

scientific article (publication date: 11 October 2016)

From marine caves to the deep sea, a new look at Caminella (Demospongiae, Geodiidae) in the Atlanto-Mediterranean region

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Lithistid sponges of the upper bathyal of Madeira, Selvagens and Canary Islands, with description of a new species of Isabella

scientific article published on 10 September 2014

Molecular phylogeny of the Astrophorida (Porifera, Demospongiae(p)) reveals an unexpected high level of spicule homoplasy

scientific article published in 2011

Molecular richness and biotechnological potential of bacteria cultured from Irciniidae sponges in the north-east Atlantic.

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On a hexactinellid sponge aggregation at the Great Meteor seamount (North-east Atlantic)

scientific article published on 21 July 2015

Phylogenetically and spatially close marine sponges harbour divergent bacterial communities

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Predicted distribution of the glass sponge Vazella pourtalesi on the Scotian Shelf and its persistence in the face of climatic variability

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

Redescription and resurrection of Pachymatisma normani (Demospongiae: Geodiidae), with remarks on the genus Pachymatisma

scholarly article in Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, vol. 87 no. 6, December 2007

Rock sponges (lithistid Demospongiae) of the Northeast Atlantic seamounts, with description of ten new species

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Shifts in microbial and chemical patterns within the marine sponge Aplysina aerophoba during a disease outbreak

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Species boundaries and phylogenetic relationships between Atlanto-Mediterranean shallow-water and deep-sea coral associated Hexadella species (Porifera, Ianthellidae)

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Systematics and biodiversity of deep-sea sponges of the Atlanto-Mediterranean region

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The antimicrobial activity of heterotrophic bacteria isolated from the marine sponge Erylus deficiens (Astrophorida, Geodiidae)

scientific article published on 7 May 2015

Unique spicules may confound species differentiation: taxonomy and biogeography of Melonanchora Carter, 1874 and two new related genera (Myxillidae: Poecilosclerida) from the Okhotsk Sea

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