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The authors thank the Director of IMMT, Bhubaneswar for providing facilities, Dr. R. B. N. Prasad, IICT, Hyderabad for providing GC-MS data, the Department of Ocean development (DOD) for financial support, and the Indian Navy for diving assistance to collect marine organisms. Three of us (SKP, SB and MP) thanks DOD for a research fellowship.
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Published in Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 1, pp. 110–112, January–February, 2012.
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Padhan, S.K., Mishra, P.M., Sree, A. et al. Fatty acid profile and sterol composition of the marine sponge Azorica pfeifferae . Chem Nat Compd 48, 122–125 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10600-012-0176-6
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