Ancorina
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Porifera
- Class: Demospongiae
- Order: Tetractinellida
- Family: Ancorinidae
- Genus: Ancorina
Visual Description
Museum and biodiversity-portal images for Ancorina (Ancorinidae) show marine sponges with a generally encrusting to massive growth form (specimens are typically mounted as dried/preserved tissue). Across images sampled in the TreeOfLife-200M genus concept, specimens appear as low-profile sheets or irregular lobes, with the surface typically showing a porous/texture-rich aspect rather than a smooth exterior.
General Overview
Ancorina is a genus of marine demosponges placed in the order Tetractinellida and family Ancorinidae (as represented by the TreeOfLife-200M concept used here).[1]
Research and Biomedical Relevance (genus-level)
A study reported cytotoxic and apoptosis-inducing activity of crude extracts prepared from Ancorina (“Ancorina sp.”) on human breast cancer T47D cells, using solvent extracts prepared with methanol, dichloromethane:methanol (1:1), and dichloromethane. The experimental readouts included an MTT-based viability assessment (with IC₅₀ values reported by extract type), and flow cytometry quantifying apoptosis and caspase-3-associated cells.[2]
The same work concluded that the tested Ancorina (“sp.”) crude extracts displayed strong to moderate cytotoxicity and induced apoptosis in the assay system, with the methanol extract associated with higher caspase-3 activation under the study conditions.[2]
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References
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Tetractinellida / Ancorinidae / Ancorina constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- 1 2 Woro Anindito Sri Tunjung; Puspa Restu Sayekti. Apoptosis induction on human breast cancer T47D cell line by extracts of Ancorina sp.. F1000Research. 2019. https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.17584.2.