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John N. A. Hooper

John N. A. Hooper

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Biology and Biochemistry

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56
Citations
9894
World Ranking
14562
National Ranking
397

Overview

John N. A. Hooper is affiliated with Griffith University in Australia. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Environmental Science.

Their work spans several subfields, including Biotechnology, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, and Ocean Engineering. Central topics covered in their research include Marine Sponges and Natural Products, Marine Ecology and Invasive Species, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies, Marine Biology and Environmental Chemistry, Chemical Synthesis and Alkaloids, and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies.

Hooper has published in multiple scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Zootaxa
  • Marine Drugs
  • British Journal of Surgery
  • Global Biodiversity Information Facility
  • Journal of Zoological Systematics & Evolutionary Research

Notable recent papers by Hooper consist of:

  • Quorum Sensing Inhibitory and Antifouling Activities of New Bromotyrosine Metabolites from the Polynesian Sponge Pseudoceratina n. sp. (2020, Marine Drugs)
  • Every sponge its own name: removing Porifera homonyms (2020, Zootaxa)
  • Soft sponges with tricky tree: On the phylogeny of dictyoceratid sponges (2020, Journal of Zoological Systematics & Evolutionary Research)
  • Carnivorous sponges from the Australian Bathyal and Abyssal zones collected during the RV Investigator 2017 Expedition (2020, Zootaxa)
  • Tedaniophorbasins A and B-Novel Fluorescent Pteridine Alkaloids Incorporating a Thiomorpholine from the Sponge Tedaniophorbas ceratosis (2021, Marine Drugs)

Frequent collaborators in Hooper's research include Merrick Ekins, Dirk Erpenbeck, Gert Wörheide, Sylvain Petek, and Cécile Debitus.

Best Publications

  • Systema Porifera. A Guide to the Classification of Sponges

    John N. A. Hooper;Rob W. M. Van Soest

  • Global Diversity of Sponges (Porifera)

    Rob W. M. Van Soest;Nicole Boury-Esnault;Jean Vacelet;Martin Dohrmann

  • Isolation and structure of the cell growth inhibitory constituents from the Western Pacific marine sponge Axinella sp.

    George R. Pettit;Cherry L. Herald;Michael R. Boyd;Michael R. Boyd;John E. Leet

  • Antineoplastic agents. 520. Isolation and structure of irciniastatins A and B from the Indo-Pacific marine sponge Ircinia ramosa.

    George R. Pettit;Jun-Ping Xu;Jean-Charles Chapuis;Robin K. Pettit

  • CO1 phylogenies in diploblasts and the 'Barcoding of Life' — are we sequencing a suboptimal partition?

    D. Erpenbeck;J. N. A. Hooper;G. Wörheide

  • Axinellamines A−D, Novel Imidazo−Azolo−Imidazole Alkaloids from the Australian Marine Sponge Axinella sp.

    Sylvia Urban;Priscila De Almeida Leone;Anthony Richard Carroll;Gregory Allen Fechner

  • Seabed Biodiversity on the Continental Shelf of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area

    Roland Pitcher;Peter Doherty;Peter Arnold;John Hooper

  • Biodiversity 'hotspots', patterns of richness and endemism, and taxonomic affinities of tropical Australian sponges (Porifera)

    John N.A. Hooper;John A. Kennedy;Ronald J. Quinn

  • LAMELLARINS Q AND R : NEW AROMATIC METABOLITES FROM AN AUSTRALIAN MARINE SPONGE, DENDRILLA CACTOS

    S. Urban;L. Hobbs;J. N. A. Hooper;R. J. Capon

  • Richness and distribution of sponge megabenthos in continental margin canyons off southeastern Australia

    Thomas A. Schlacher;Monika A. Schlacher-Hoenlinger;Alan Williams;Franziska Althaus

  • Isolation and Structure of Halistatin 1 from the Eastern Indian Ocean Marine Sponge Phakellia carteri

    George Pettit;Rui Tan;Feng Gao;Michael D. Williams

  • Natural Products, Stylissadines A and B, Specific Antagonists of the P2X7 Receptor, an Important Inflammatory Target

    Malcolm Stewart Buchanan;Anthony Richard Carroll;Rama Addepalli;Vicky Marie Avery

  • Dysinosin A: a novel inhibitor of Factor VIIa and thrombin from a new genus and species of Australian sponge of the family Dysideidae.

    Anthony Richard Carroll;Gregory K Pierens;Gregory Allen Fechner;Priscila De Almeida Leone

  • Phylogeography of western Pacific Leucetta 'chagosensis' (Porifera: Calcarea) from ribosomal DNA sequences: implications for population history and conservation of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area (Australia).

    Gert Wörheide;John N. A. Hooper;Bernard M. Degnan

  • Barcoding sponges: an overview based on comprehensive sampling

    Sergio Vargas;Astrid Schuster;Katharina Sacher;Gabrielle Buttner

  • Haliclonacyclamines A and B, cytotoxic alkaloids from the tropical marine sponge Haliclona sp

    Romila D. Charan;Mary J. Garson;Ian M. Brereton;Anthony C. Willis

  • The phylogeny of halichondrid demosponges: past and present re-visited with DNA-barcoding data

    Dirk Erpenbeck;Dirk Erpenbeck;Kathryn Hall;Belinda Alvarez;Gabriele Büttner

  • Speciation and Biosynthetic Variation in Four Dictyoceratid Sponges and Their Cyanobacterial Symbiont, Oscillatoria spongeliae

    Christian P. Ridley;Patricia R. Bergquist;Mary Kay Harper;D. John Faulkner

  • Isolation and structure of the marine sponge cell growth inhibitory cyclic peptide phakellistatin 1

    George R. Pettit;Zbigniew Cichacz;Jozsef Barkoczy;Ann Christine Dorsaz

  • Bioactive isomalabaricane triterpenes from the marine sponge Rhabdastrella globostellata.

    Deniz Tasdemir;Gina C. Mangalindan;Gisela P. Concepcion;Sheryl M. Verbitski

Frequent Co-Authors

Dirk Erpenbeck
Dirk Erpenbeck Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Ronald J. Quinn
Ronald J. Quinn Griffith University
Gert Wörheide
Gert Wörheide Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Rohan Andrew Davis
Rohan Andrew Davis Griffith University
George R. Pettit
George R. Pettit Arizona State University
Jean M. Schmidt
Jean M. Schmidt Arizona State University
Vicky M. Avery
Vicky M. Avery Griffith University
Robert J. Capon
Robert J. Capon University of Queensland
Cécile Debitus
Cécile Debitus University of Western Brittany
Bernard M. Degnan
Bernard M. Degnan University of Queensland

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