Sea cucumbers are prolific producers of a wide range of bioactive compounds, which are potential sources of agrichemical, nutraceutical, pharmaceutical and cosmeceutical products.
Sea cucumbers expel their internal organs as a defence mechanism called evisceration. We hypothesize that the reason for...
Triploids (3n) are organisms with three sets of chromosomes, while the normal diploid (2n) organisms have only two sets. Over the past two decades, triploids have been studied in more than 20 species of molluscs. The main interests of those studies have primarily focused on their sterility and...