Two new sponge species (Demospongiae: Chalinidae and Suberitidae) isolated from hyperarid mangroves of Qatar with notes on their potential antibacterial bioactivity

• Bruno Welter Giraldes ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: bweltergiraldes@qu.edu.qa (BWG); phanifi@gmail.com (PHM)

  Affiliation Environmental Science Centre, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6845-3183

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• Claire Goodwin,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Huntsman Marine Science Centre, St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada, University of New Brunswick, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

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• Noora A. A. Al-Fardi,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Environmental Science Centre, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar

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• Amanda Engmann,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Environmental Science Centre, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4144-6637

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• Alexandra Leitão,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Environmental Science Centre, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar

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• Asma A. Ahmed,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Biomedical Science Department, College of Health Science, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar

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• Kamelia O. Ahmed,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Biomedical Science Department, College of Health Science, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar

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• Hadil A. Abdulkader,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Biomedical Science Department, College of Health Science, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar

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• Halah A. Al-Korbi,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Biomedical Science Department, College of Health Science, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar

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• Hala Sultan Saif Al Easa,

  Roles Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Earth Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1231-8126

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• Nahla O. Ahmed Eltai,

  Roles Formal analysis, Supervision

  Affiliation Biomedical Research Centre, Qatar University (QA), Doha—Qatar

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• Pejman Hanifi-Moghaddam

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision

  * E-mail: bweltergiraldes@qu.edu.qa (BWG); phanifi@gmail.com (PHM)

  Affiliation Biomedical Science Department, College of Health Science, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar

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