Bio-Active Components from Marine Sponges

Dear Colleagues,                

This Special Issue focuses on bioactive components derived from marine sponges, and offers researchers the opportunity to publish original work on various topics, including: natural products derived from sponges and their associated micro-organisms; the presentation of biological activities in many domains, whether for health-related, environmental, or biotechnological applications; and chemical ecology studies. Sustainable production via chemical synthesis and bioproduction through the culture of these bioactive specialized marine metabolites are of a great interest in the context of blue chemistry. In this Special Issue, we welcome papers on all of these chemical, biological, and ecological aspects.

Dr. Sylvain Petek
Dr. Ali Al-Mourabit
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the Special Issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-anonymized peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Marine Drugs is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2900 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.