Book Chapter
Bridge, Tom C. L., Beaman, Robin J., Bongaerts, Pim, Muir, Paul R., Ekins, Merrick and Sih, Tiffany (2019). The Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea. Mesophotic coral ecosystems. (pp. 351-367) edited by Yossi Loya, Kimberly A. Puglise and Tom C.L. Bridge. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-92735-0_20
Journal Articles
Voser, Tanja M., Hayton, Joshua B., Prebble, Dale W., Jin, Ju, Grant, Gary, Ekins, Merrick G. and Carroll, Anthony R. (2023). Amphiphilic Polyamine α-Synuclein Aggregation Inhibitors from the Sponge Aaptos lobata. Journal of Natural Products. doi: 10.1021/acs.jnatprod.2c01125
González-Murcia, Saúl, Ekins, Merrick, Bridge, Tom C. L., Battershill, Christopher N. and Jones, Geoffrey P. (2023). Substratum selection in coral reef sponges and their interactions with other benthic organisms. Coral Reefs. doi: 10.1007/s00338-023-02350-2
Hayes, Sasha, Taki, Aya C, Lum, Kah Yean, Byrne, Joseph J, Ekins, Merrick G, Gasser, Robin B and Davis, Rohan A (2022). Using UHPLC–MS profiling for the discovery of new sponge-derived metabolites and anthelmintic screening of the NatureBank bromotyrosine library. Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry, 18, 1544-1552. doi: 10.3762/bjoc.18.164
AGNE, STEFANIE, EKINS, MERRICK, GALITZ, ADRIAN, HOFREITER, MICHAEL, PREICK, MICHAELA, STRAUBE, NICOLAS, WÖRHEIDE, GERT and ERPENBECK, DIRK (2022). Keratose sponge MuseOMICS: setting reference points in dictyoceratid demosponge phylogeny. Zootaxa, 5195 (3), 296-300. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5195.3.9
Jourdain de Muizon, Capucine, Moriou, Céline, Petek, Sylvain, Ekins, Merrick, Rousseau, Marthe and Al Mourabit, Ali (2022). Isolation, synthesis and absolute configuration of the pericharaxins A and B, epimeric hydroxy-polyene glycerol ethers from the calcarean sponge Pericharax heteroraphis. Marine Drugs, 20 (10) 635, 1-14. doi: 10.3390/md20100635
Gonzalez-Murcia, Saul, Coppock, Amy G., Ekins, Merrick, Battershill, Christopher N. and Jones, Geoffrey P. (2022). Effects of exposure, depth and aspect on sponge communities on a coral reef. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 685, 111-126. doi: 10.3354/meps13981
Benayahu, Yehuda, Ekins, Merrick, Van Ofwegen, Leen P. , Samimi-Namin, Kaveh and McFadden, Catherine S. (2022). On some encrusting Xeniidae (Octocorallia): Re-examination of the type material of Sansibia flava (May, 1898) and a description of new taxa. Zootaxa, 5093 (4), 421-444. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5093.4.3
Prebble, Dale W., Voser, Tanja M., Er, Safak, Hlushchuk, Irena, Domanskyi, Andrii, Airavaara, Mikko, Ekins, Merrick G., Mellick, George D. and Carroll, Anthony R. (2022). Hesperine, a new imidazole alkaloid and α-synuclein binding activity of 1-methyl-1,2,7,8-tetrahydro-2,8-dioxoadenosine from the marine sponge Clathria (Thalysias) cf. hesperia. Results in Chemistry, 4 100302, 1-4. doi: 10.1016/j.rechem.2022.100302
Kise, Hiroki, Montenegro, Javier, Santos, Maria E.A., Hoeksema, Bert W., Ekins, Merrick, Ise, Yuji, Higashiji, Takuo, Fernandez-Silva, Iria and Reimer, James D. (2022). Evolution and phylogeny of glass-sponge-associated zoantharians, with a description of two new genera and three new species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 194 (1), 323-347. doi: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab068
Prebble, Dale W., Er, Safak, Xu, Mingming, Hlushchuk, Irena, Domanskyi, Andrii, Airavaara, Mikko, Ekins, Merrick G., Mellick, George D. and Carroll, Anthony R. (2022). α-synuclein aggregation inhibitory activity of the bromotyrosine derivatives aerothionin and aerophobin-2 from the subtropical marine sponge Aplysinella sp. Results in Chemistry, 4 100472, 1-6. doi: 10.1016/j.rechem.2022.100472
Salonna, Marika, Gasparini, Fabio, Huchon, Dorothée, Montesanto, Federica, Haddas-Sasson, Michal, Ekins, Merrick, McNamara, Marissa, Mastrototaro, Francesco and Gissi, Carmela (2021). An elongated COI fragment to discriminate botryllid species and as an improved ascidian DNA barcode. Scientific Reports, 11 (1) 4078, 1-19. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-83127-x
Ramage, Kelsey S., Taki, Aya C., Lum, Kah Yean, Hayes, Sasha, Byrne, Joseph J., Wang, Tao, Hofmann, Andreas, Ekins, Merrick G., White, Jonathan M., Jabbar, Abdul, Davis, Rohan A. and Gasser, Robin B. (2021). Dysidenin from the marine sponge Citronia sp. Affects the motility and morphology of Haemonchus Contortus larvae in vitro. Marine Drugs, 19 (12) 698. doi: 10.3390/md19120698
Benayahu, Yehuda, Ekins, Merrick and Mcfadden, Catherine S. (2021). Overview of the genus Sympodium Ehrenberg, 1834 (Octocorallia, Alcyonacea, Xeniidae), with the description of new species, revealing regional endemism. Zootaxa, 5072 (4), 324-350. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5072.4.2
Taki, Aya C., Byrne, Joseph J., Jabbar, Abdul, Lum, Kah Yean, Hayes, Sasha, Addison, Russell S., Ramage, Kelsey S., Hofmann, Andreas, Ekins, Merrick G., Wang, Tao, Chang, Bill C. H., Davis, Rohan A. and Gasser, Robin B. (2021). High throughput screening of the naturebank ‘marine collection’ in a Haemonchus bioassay identifies anthelmintic activity in extracts from a range of sponges from Australian waters. Molecules, 26 (19) 5846, 5846. doi: 10.3390/molecules26195846
Schuster, A., Pisera, A., Ekins, M. and Debitus, C. (2021). New genus and species of lithistid demosponges from submarine caves in Nuku Hiva (Marquesas Islands) and Tahiti Iti (Society Islands), French Polynesia. The European Zoological Journal, 88 (1), 749-770. doi: 10.1080/24750263.2021.1939450
Ekins, Merrick, Horowitz, Jeremy, Beaman, Robin J. and Hooper, John N. A. (2021). A new carnivorous sponge (Porifera) from the coral sea. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 62, 205-215. doi: 10.17082/j.2204-1478.62.2021.2020-06
Jennings, Laurence K., Prebble, Dale W., Xu, Mingming, Ekins, Merrick G., Munn, Alan L., Mellick, George D. and Carroll, Anthony R. (2020). Anti-prion and α-Synuclein Aggregation Inhibitory Sterols from the Sponge Lamellodysidea cf. chlorea. Journal of Natural Products, 83 (12), 3751-3757. doi: 10.1021/acs.jnatprod.0c01168
Ekins, Merrick, Erpenbeck, Dirk, Goudie, Lisa and Hooper, John N.A. (2020). New carnivorous sponges and allied species from the Great Australian Bight. Zootaxa, 4878 (2), 240-266. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4878.2.2
O'Hara, T. D., Williams, A., Ahyong, S. T., Alderslade, P., Alvestad, T., Bray, D., Burghardt, I., Budaeva, N., Criscione, F., Crowther, A. L., Ekins, M., Eléaume, M., Farrelly, C. A., Finn, J. K., Georgieva, M. N., Graham, A., Gomon, M., Gowlett-Holmes, K., Gunton, L. M., Hallan, A., Hosie, A. M., Hutchings, P., Kise, H., Köhler, F., Konsgrud, J. A., Kupriyanova, E., Lu, C. C., Mackenzie, M., Mah, C. ... Bax, N. J. (2020). The lower bathyal and abyssal seafloor fauna of eastern Australia. Marine Biodiversity Records, 13 (1) 11. doi: 10.1186/s41200-020-00194-1
Lum, Kah Yean, Taki, Aya C., Gasser, Robin B., Tietjen, Ian, Ekins, Merrick G., White, Jonathan M., Addison, Russell S., Hayes, Sasha, St John, James and Davis, Rohan A. (2020). Comatulins A-E, Taurine-Conjugated Anthraquinones from the Australian Crinoid Comatula rotalaria. Journal of Natural Products, 83 (6), 1971-1979. doi: 10.1021/acs.jnatprod.0c00267
Ekins, Merrick, Erpenbeck, Dirk and Hooper, John N.A. (2020). Carnivorous sponges from the Australian Bathyal and Abyssal zones collected during the RV Investigator 2017 Expedition. Zootaxa, 4774 (1), 1-159. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4774.1.1
Tintillier, Florent, Moriou, Céline, Petek, Sylvain, Fauchon, Marilyne, Hellio, Claire, Saulnier, Denis, Ekins, Merrick, Hooper, John N.A., Al-Mourabit, Ali and Debitus, Cécile (2020). Quorum sensing inhibitory and antifouling activities of new bromotyrosine metabolites from the Polynesian sponge Pseudoceratina n. SP. Marine Drugs, 18 (5) 272, 1-17. doi: 10.3390/md18050272
Klautau, Michelle, Lopes, Matheus Vieira, Guarabyra, Bruna, Folcher, Eric, Ekins, Merrick and Debitus, Cécile (2020). Calcareous sponges from the French Polynesia (Porifera: Calcarea). Zootaxa, 4748 (2), 261-295. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4748.2.3
Erpenbeck, Dirk, Galitz, Adrian, Ekins, Merrick, Cook, Steve de C., van Soest, Rob W. M., Hooper, John N. A. and Wörheide, Gert (2020). Soft sponges with tricky tree: on the phylogeny of dictyoceratid sponges. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, 58 (1), 27-40. doi: 10.1111/jzs.12351
Mai, Tepoerau, Toullec, Jordan, Van Wynsberge, Simon, Besson, Marc, Soulet, Stephanie, Petek, Sylvain, Aliotti, Emmanuelle, Ekins, Merrick, Hall, Kathryn, Erpenbeck, Dirk, Lecchini, David, Beniddir, Mehdi A., Saulnier, Denis and Debitus, Cécile (2019). Potential of fascaplysin and palauolide from Fascaplysinopsis cf reticulata to reduce the risk of bacterial infection in fish farming. Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 22 (1) 30. doi: 10.1186/s41240-019-0145-0
Kise, Hiroki, Montenegro, Javier, Ekins, Merrick, Moritaki, Takeya and Reimer, James Davis (2019). A molecular phylogeny of carcinoecium-forming Epizoanthus (Hexacorallia: Zoantharia) from the Western Pacific Ocean with descriptions of three new species. Systematics and Biodiversity, 17 (8), 773-786. doi: 10.1080/14772000.2019.1693439
Herath, H., Preston, Sarah, Jabbar, Abdul, Garcia-Bustos, Jose, Taki, Aya, Addison, Russell, Hayes, Sasha, Beattie, Karren, McGee, Sean, Martin, Sheree, Ekins, Merrick, Hooper, John, Chang, Bill, Hofmann, Andreas, Davis, Rohan and Gasser, Robin (2019). Identification of fromiamycalin and halaminol A from Australian marine sponge extracts with anthelmintic activity against Haemonchus contortus. Marine Drugs, 17 (11) 598, 598. doi: 10.3390/md17110598
Sorokin, Shirley J., Ekins, Merrick G., Yang, Qi and Cardenas, Paco (2019). A new deep-water Tethya (Porifera, Tethyida, Tethyidae) from the Great Australian Bight and an updated Tethyida phylogeny. European Journal of Taxonomy, 529 (529), 1-26. doi: 10.5852/ejt.2019.529
McFadden, Catherine S., Gonzalez, Asaul, Imada, Rei, Shi, Sara S., Hong, Prudence, Ekins, Merrick and Benayahu, Yehuda (2019). Molecular operational taxonomic units reveal restricted geographic ranges and regional endemism in the Indo-Pacific octocoral family Xeniidae. Journal of Biogeography, 46 (5), 992-1006. doi: 10.1111/jbi.13543
Lum, Kah, Carroll, Anthony, Ekins, Merrick, Read, Silven, Haq, Zahra, Tietjen, Ian, St John, James and Davis, Rohan (2019). Capillasterin A, a novel pyrano[2,3-f]chromene from the Australian crinoid Capillaster multiradiatus. Marine Drugs, 17 (1) 26, 26. doi: 10.3390/md17010026
Rocha, Rosana M., Salonna, Marika, Griggio, Francesca, Ekins, Merrick, Lambert, Gretchen, Mastrototaro, Francesco, Fidler, Andrew and Gissi, Carmela (2019). The power of combined molecular and morphological analyses for the genus Botrylloides: identification of a potentially global invasive ascidian and description of a new species. Systematics and Biodiversity, 17 (5), 1-18. doi: 10.1080/14772000.2019.1649738
Rozefelds, Andrew C., Dettmann, Mary E., Milroy, Anita K., Hammond, Andrew, Clifford, H. Trevor and Ekins, Merrick (2019). The unexpected, recent history of horsetails in Australia. Australian Systematic Botany, 32 (1), 255-268. doi: 10.1071/SB18033
Thomson, Jordan A., Whitman, Elizabeth R., Garcia-Rojas, Maria I., Bellgrove, Alecia, Ekins, Merrick, Hays, Graeme C. and Heithaus, Michael R. (2018). Individual specialization in a migratory grazer reflects long-term diet selectivity on a foraging ground: implications for isotope-based tracking. Oecologia, 188 (2), 429-439. doi: 10.1007/s00442-018-4218-z
Velasquez, Eleanor, Bryan, Scott E., Ekins, Merrick, Cook, Alex G., Hurrey, Lucy and Firn, Jennifer (2018). Age and area predict patterns of species richness in pumice rafts contingent on oceanic climatic zone encountered. Ecology and Evolution, 8 (10), 5034-5046. doi: 10.1002/ece3.3980
Ekins, Merrick, Debitus, Cecile, Erpenbeck, Dirk and Hooper, John N. A. (2018). A new species of the sponge Raspailia (Raspaxilla) (Porifera: Demospongiae: Axinellida: Raspailiidae) from deep seamounts of the Western Pacific. Zootaxa, 4410 (2), 379-386. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4410.2.7
Galitz, Adrian, Cook, Steve de C., Ekins, Merrick, Hooper, John N.A., Naumann, Peter T., de Voogd, Nicole J., Wahab, Muhammad Abdul, Wörheide, Gert and Erpenbeck, Dirk (2018). Identification of an aquaculture poriferan “Pest with Potential” and its phylogenetic implications. PeerJ, 2018 (9) e5586, 1-16. doi: 10.7717/peerj.5586
Buedenbender, Larissa, Carroll, Anthony, Ekins, Merrick and Kurtböke, D. (2017). Taxonomic and metabolite diversity of actinomycetes associated with three Australian ascidians. Diversity, 9 (4) 53, 1-18. doi: 10.3390/d9040053
Ekins, Merrick, Willis, Bette, Bridge, Tom, Srinivasan, Maya, Rowley, Sonia and Hooper, John (2017). The coral killing sponge Terpios hoshinota in Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 60, 174-175. doi: 10.1082/j.2204-1478.60.2017.2017-02
Rozefelds, Andrew C., Dettmann, Mary E., Clifford, H. Trevor and Ekins, Merrick (2017). An Australian origin for the candle nut (Aleurites, Crotonoideae, Euphorbiaceae) and the fossil record of the Euphorbiaceae and related families in Australia and New Zealand. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 241, 39-48. doi: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2017.01.006
Fromont, Jane, Abdul Wahab, Muhammad, Gomez, Oliver, Ekins, Merrick, Grol, Monique and Hooper, John (2016). Patterns of sponge biodiversity in the Pilbara, Northwestern Australia. Diversity, 8 (4) 21, 21. doi: 10.3390/d8040021
Ekins, Merrick, Erpenbeck, Dirk, Wörheide, Gert and Hooper, John N. A. (2016). A new species of lithistid sponge hiding within the Isabella mirabilis species complex (Porifera: Demospongiae: Tetractinellida) from seamounts of the Norfolk Ridge. Zootaxa, 4136 (3), 433-460. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4136.3.2
Khokhar, Shahan, Pierens, Gregory K., Hooper, John N. A., Ekins, Merrick G., Feng, Yunjiang and Davis, Rohan A. (2016). Rhodocomatulin-type anthraquinones from the Australian marine invertebrates Clathria hirsuta and Comatula rotalaria. Journal of Natural Products, 79 (4), 946-953. doi: 10.1021/acs.jnatprod.5b01029
Hahn, Dongyup, Kim, Hiyoung, Yang, Inho, Chin, Jungwook, Hwang, Hoosang, Won, Dong Hwan, Lee, Byoungchan, Nam, Sang-Jip, Ekins, Merrick, Choi, Hyukjae and Kang, Heonjoong (2016). The halicylindramides, farnesoid X receptor antagonizing depsipeptides from a Petrosia sp. marine sponge collected in Korea. Journal of Natural Products, 79 (3), 499-506. doi: 10.1021/acs.jnatprod.5b00871
Khokhar, Shahan, Feng, Yunjiang, Carroll, Anthony R., Campitelli, Marc R., Quinn, Ronald J., Hooper, John N.A., Ekins, Merrick G. and Davis, Rohan A. (2015). ChemInform Abstract: Dragmacidol A and Dragmacidolide A from the Australian Marine Sponge Dragmacidon australe. ChemInform, 46 (50), no-no. doi: 10.1002/chin.201550182
Khokhar, Shahan, Feng, Yunjiang, Carroll, Anthony R., Campitelli, Marc R., Quinn, Ronald J., Hooper, John N.A., Ekins, Merrick G. and Davis, Rohan A. (2015). Dragmacidol A and dragmacidolide A from the Australian marine sponge Dragmacidon australe. Tetrahedron, 71 (36) 26923, 6204-6209. doi: 10.1016/j.tet.2015.06.087
Tran, Trong, Pham, Ngoc, Ekins, Merrick, Hooper, John and Quinn, Ronald (2015). Isolation and total synthesis of stolonines A–C, unique taurine amides from the Australian marine tunicate Cnemidocarpa stolonifera. Marine Drugs, 13 (7), 4556-4575. doi: 10.3390/md13074556
Ekins, Merrick, Erpenbeck, Dirk, Wörheide, Gert and Hooper, John N. A. (2015). Staying well connected – Lithistid sponges on seamounts. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 96 (2), 437-451. doi: 10.1017/s0025315415000831
Erpenbeck, Dirk, Ekins, Merrick, Enghuber, Nicole, Hooper, John N.A., Lehnert, Helmut, Poliseno, Angelo, Schuster, Astrid, Setiawan, Edwin, De Voogd, Nicole J., Wörheide, Gert and Van Soest, Rob W.M. (2015). Nothing in (sponge) biology makes sense – except when based on holotypes. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 96 (2), 305-311. doi: 10.1017/s0025315415000521
Khokhar, Shahan, Feng, Yunjiang, Campitelli, Marc R., Ekins, Merrick G., Hooper, John N. A., Beattie, Karren D., Sadowski, Martin C., Nelson, Colleen C. and Davis, Rohan A. (2015). ChemInform Abstract: Isolation, Structure Determination and Cytotoxicity Studies of Tryptophan Alkaloids from an Australian Marine Sponge Hyrtios sp. ChemInform, 46 (6), no-no. doi: 10.1002/chin.201506247
Hahn, Dongyup, Chin, Jungwook, Kim, Hiyoung, Yang, Inho, Won, Dong Hwan, Ekins, Merrick, Choi, Hyukjae, Nam, Sang-Jip and Kang, Heonjoong (2015). ChemInform Abstract: Sesquiterpenoids with PPARδ Agonistic Effect from a Korean Marine Sponge Ircinia sp. ChemInform, 46 (5). doi: 10.1002/chin.201505200
Gershwin, Lisa-Ann and Ekins, Merrick (2015). A new pygmy species of box jellyfish (Cubozoa: Chirodropida) from sub-tropical Australia. Marine Biodiversity Records, 8 e111. doi: 10.1017/s175526721500086x
Mun, Bora, Wang, Weihong, Kim, Hiyoung, Hahn, Dongyup, Yang, Inho, Won, Dong Hwan, Kim, Eun-hee, Lee, Jihye, Han, Chulkyeong, Kim, Hyunji, Ekins, Merrick, Nam, Sang-Jip, Choi, Hyukjae and Kang, Heonjoong (2014). Cytotoxic 5α,8α-epidioxy sterols from the marine sponge Monanchora sp. Archives of Pharmacal Research, 38 (1), 18-25. doi: 10.1007/s12272-014-0480-8
Khokhar, Shahan, Feng, Yunjiang, Campitelli, Marc R., Ekins, Merrick G., Hooper, John N.A., Beattie, Karren D., Sadowski, Martin C., Nelson, Colleen C. and Davis, Rohan A. (2014). Isolation, structure determination and cytotoxicity studies of tryptophan alkaloids from an Australian marine sponge Hyrtios sp. Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 24 (15), 3329-3332. doi: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2014.05.104
Hahn, Dongyup, Chin, Jungwook, Kim, Hiyoung, Yang, Inho, Won, Dong Hwan, Ekins, Merrick, Choi, Hyukjae, Nam, Sang-Jip and Kang, Heonjoong (2014). Sesquiterpenoids with PPARδ agonistic effect from a Korean marine sponge Ircinia sp. Tetrahedron Letters, 55 (34), 4716-4719. doi: 10.1016/j.tetlet.2014.07.019
Hall, Kathryn A., Ekins, Merrick G. and Hooper, John N. A. (2014). Two new desma-less species of Theonella Gray, 1868 (Demospongiae: Astrophorida: Theonellidae), from the Great Barrier Reef, Australia, and a re-evaluation of one species assigned previously to Dercitus Gray, 1867. Zootaxa, 3814 (4), 451-477. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3814.4.1
Lõhelaid, Helike, Teder, Tarvi, Tõldsepp, Kadri, Ekins, Merrick and Samel, Nigulas (2014). Up-regulated expression of AOS-LOXa and increased eicosanoid synthesis in response to coral wounding. PL o S One, 9 (2) e89215, 1-9. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0089215
Ekins, Merrick and Gershwin, Lisa (2014). First record of the Caribbean box jellyfish Tripedalia cystophora in Australian waters. Marine Biodiversity Records, 7 e127, 1-5. doi: 10.1017/s1755267214001183
Bilewitch, J. P., Ekins, M., Hooper, J. and Degnan, S. M. (2014). Corrigendum to "Molecular and morphological systematics of the Ellisellidae (Coelenterata: Octocorallia): Parallel evolution in a globally distributed family of octocorals" [Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 73 (2014) 106-118] (DOI:10.1016/j.ympev.2014.01.023). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 78, 399-399. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2014.05.025
Bilewitch, Jaret P., Ekins, Merrick, Hooper, John and Degnan, Sandie M. (2014). Molecular and morphological systematics of the Ellisellidae (Coelenterata: Octocorallia): Parallel evolution in a globally distributed family of octocorals. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 73 (1), 106-118. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2014.01.023
Khokhar, Shahan, Feng, Yunjiang, Campitelli, Marc R., Quinn, Ronald J., Hooper, John N. A., Ekins, Merrick G. and Davis, Rohan A. (2013). Trikentramides A–D, indole alkaloids from the Australian spongeTrikentrion flabelliforme. Journal of Natural Products, 76 (11), 2100-2105. doi: 10.1021/np400617h
Kim, Hiyoung, Chin, Jungwook, Choi, Hyukjae, Baek, Kyungryul, Lee, Tae-Gu, Park, Seong Eon, Wang, Weihong, Hahn, Dongyup, Yang, Inho, Lee, Jihye, Mun, Bora, Ekins, Merrick, Nam, Sang-Jip and Kang, Heonjoong (2013). Correction: Phosphoiodyns A and B, unique phosphorus-containing iodinated polyacetylenes from a Korean sponge Placospongia sp. Organic Letters, 15 (21), 5614-5614. doi: 10.1021/ol402803k
Hahn, Dongyup, Won, Dong Hwan, Mun, Bora, Kim, Hiyoung, Han, Chulkyeong, Wang, Weihong, Chun, Taeho, Park, Sunhee, Yoon, Dajeong, Choi, Hyukjae, Nam, Sang-Jip, Ekins, Merrick, Chin, Jungwook and Kang, Heonjoong (2013). Cytotoxic scalarane sesterterpenes from a Korean marine sponge Psammocinia sp. Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 23 (8), 2336-2339. doi: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2013.02.061
Wang, Weihong, Mun, Bora, Lee, Yehee, Venkat Reddy, Mallepally, Park, Youngmin, Lee, Jihye, Kim, Hiyoung, Hahn, Dongyup, Chin, Jungwook, Ekins, Merrick, Nam, Sang-Jip and Kang, Heonjoong (2013). Bioactive sesterterpenoids from a Korean sponge Monanchora sp. Journal of Natural Products, 76 (2), 170-177. doi: 10.1021/np300573m
Kim, Hiyoung, Chin, Jungwook, Choi, Hyukjae, Baek, Kyungryul, Lee, Tae-Gu, Park, Seong Eon, Wang, Weihong, Hahn, Dongyup, Yang, Inho, Lee, Jihye, Mun, Bora, Ekins, Merrick, Nam, Sang-Jip and Kang, Heonjoong (2012). Phosphoiodyns A and B, unique phosphorus-containing iodinated polyacetylenes from a Korean sponge Placospongia sp. Organic Letters, 15 (1), 100-103. doi: 10.1021/ol3031318
Ekins, Merrick (2011). Island Monarch Monarcha cinerascens: First record on an Island close to Mainland Australia. Australian Field Ornithology, 28 (4), 162-166.
Ekins, M. G., Hayden, H. L., Aitken, E. A. B. and Goulter, K. C. (2011). Population structure of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum on sunflower in Australia. Australasian Plant Pathology, 40 (2), 99-108. doi: 10.1007/s13313-010-0018-6
Smith, Peter J., Page, Mike, Handley, Sean J., McVeagh, S. Margaret and Ekins, Merrick (2007). First record of the Australian ascidian Eudistoma elongatumin northern New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 41 (4), 347-355. doi: 10.1080/00288330709509924
Ekins, M. G., Aitken, E. A. B. and Goulter, K. C. (2007). Aggressiveness among isolates of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum from sunflower. Australasian Plant Pathology, 36 (6), 580-586. doi: 10.1071/AP07062
Conference Papers
Hall, Kathryn, Ekins, Merrick, Sutcliffe, Patricia, Hooper, John, de Voogd, Nicole, Petek, Sylvain, Folcher, Eric and Debitus, Cecile (2013). The diversity of sponges from French Polynesia. 9th World Sponge Conference, “New Frontiers of Sponge Science”, Fremantle, WA, Australia, November 2013.
Hall, Kathryn, Ekins, Merrick, Vidgen, Miranda, Harper, Mary Kay, Ireland, Chris, Carroll, Anthony, Habener, Leesa, Erpenbeck, Dirk, Woerheide, Gert and Hooper, John (2013). SpongeMaps: in-cloud taxonomic collaborations on Indo-West Pacific species of Theonella Gray, 1868. 9th World Sponge Conference, “New Frontiers of Sponge Science”, Fremantle, WA, Australia, November 2013.
Hooper, J.N.A., Hall, K.A., Ekins, M., Vargas, S., Erpenbeck, D., Wörheide, G. and Jolley-Rogers, G. (2013). Pumping Indo-west Pacific sponges through the taxonomic pipeline: The Sponge Barcoding and SpongeMaps Projects. 12th Pacific Science Inter-Congress, Suva, Fiji, July 2013.
Hall, Kathryn, Ekins, Merrick, Vidgen, Miranda, Harper, Mary Kay, Ireland, Chris, Carroll, Anthony, Habener, Leesa, Erpenbeck, Dirk, Wörheide, Gert and Hooper, John (2013). SpongeMaps: an online collaborative tool for taxonomy. 9th World Sponge Conference, “New Frontiers of Sponge Science”, Fremantle, WA, Australia, November 2013.
Erpenbeck, Dirk, Hall, Kathryn, Ekins, Merrick, Varghese, Temi, Hooper, John and Wörheide, Gert (2013). Sponge Barcoding v.2 – much more than just barcodes. 9th World Sponge Conference, “New Frontiers of Sponge Science”, Fremantle, WA, Australia, November 2013.
Habener, Leesa, Carroll, Anthony, Hooper, John, Hall, Kathryn, Wilson, Jenny, Worthington Wilmer, Jessica and Ekins, Merrick (2013). Integrative approach to the taxonomy of the Family Mycalidae Lundbeck, 1905, using morphological, chemical and molecular datasets. 9th World Sponge Conference, “New Frontiers of Sponge Science”, Fremantle, WA, Australia, November 2013.
Hooper, J. N. A., Hall, K. A., Ekins, M., Erpenbeck, D., Woerheide, G. and Jolley-Rogers, G. (2013). Managing and sharing the escalating sponge unknowns: the SpongeMaps project. Annual Meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB), San Francisco, CA United States, 3-7 January 2013. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
Hooper, J. N. A., Hall, K. A., Ekins, M., Erpenbeck, D., Woerheide, G. and Jolley-Rogers, G. (2013). Managing and Sharing the Escalating Number of Sponge "Unknowns": The SpongeMaps Project. Symposium on Assembling the Poriferan Tree of Life at the Annual Meeting of the Society-for-Integrative-and-Comparative-Biology (SICB), San Francisco, United States, 3-7 January 2013. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/icb/ict038
Hall, Kathryn, Sri Adibhatla, Pavani, Ekins, Merrick, Nelson, Leanne, Jolley-Rogers, Garry, Erpenbeck, Dirk, Wörheide, Gert and Hooper, John (2011). SpongeMaps: integrating morphological data with DNA barcodes through a bespoke online portal. Fourth International Barcode of Life Conference, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, November 2011.
Thesis
Ekins, Merrick Grindon (1999). Genetic diversity in Sclerotinia species. PhD Thesis, School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland.