Robertus Wilhelmus Maria (Rob) van Soest, born in 1946,[1] is a Dutch marine biologist. He works at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center and is also affiliated with the University of Amsterdam. He co-authored with John N. A. Hooper Systema Porifera: A Guide to the Classification of Sponges,[2] a standard reference for sponge classification.[3][4][5]
He was editor in chief of the World Porifera Database (WPD) from 2004 to 2021,[6] and is currently (March 2022) one of its taxonomic editors.[7]
He has contributed to the systematics, the phylogeny and the taxonomy of sponges,[8][9][10] to their chemistry[11] and biological properties (and the pharmacological use thereof)[12][13][14]
His zoological abbreviation is van Soest.
^"IdRef: Soest, Rob W. M. van (1946-.... ; biologiste)". idref.fr (in French). Retrieved 13 March 2022.
^John N.A. Hooper; Rob W.M. van Soest (2002). Systema Porifera: A Guide to the Classification of Sponges. New York City: Springer Science+Business Media. ISBN 0-306-47260-0. OL 15578131M. Wikidata Q63090983.
^Lorraine Berry (February 2003). "Soaking up the limelight". Nature. 421 (6925): 791. doi:10.1038/421791A. ISSN 1476-4687. Wikidata Q56268026.
^Chambers, Susan (September 2003). "Systema porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges,edited by J.N.A. Hooper and R.W.M. van Soest. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, Dordrecht, 2002, 1756pp. ISBN 0‐306‐47260‐0". Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. 13 (5): 461–462. doi:10.1002/aqc.593.
^"World Porifera Database". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 12 March 2022.
^IMIS, VLIZ -. "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - IMIS: Dr Rob van Soest". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 12 March 2022.
^Julie Reveillaud; Thomas Remerie; Rob van Soest; et al. (9 April 2010). "Species boundaries and phylogenetic relationships between Atlanto-Mediterranean shallow-water and deep-sea coral associated Hexadella species (Porifera, Ianthellidae)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 56 (1): 104–114. doi:10.1016/J.YMPEV.2010.03.034. ISSN 1055-7903. PMID 20382244. Wikidata Q49106926.
^Julie Reveillaud; Rob van Soest; Sofie Derycke; Bernard Picton; Annelien Rigaux; Ann Vanreusel (9 February 2011). "Phylogenetic relationships among NE Atlantic Plocamionida Topsent (1927) (Porifera, Poecilosclerida): under-estimated diversity in reef ecosystems". PLOS One. 6 (2): e16533. Bibcode:2011PLoSO...616533R. doi:10.1371/JOURNAL.PONE.0016533. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 3036665. PMID 21347368. Wikidata Q28477121.
^Christine Morrow; Paco Cárdenas; Nicole Boury-Esnault; et al. (11 May 2019). "Integrating morphological and molecular taxonomy with the revised concept of Stelligeridae (Porifera: Demospongiae)" (PDF). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 187 (1): 31–81. doi:10.1093/ZOOLINNEAN/ZLZ017. ISSN 1096-3642. Wikidata Q104454716.
^Anake Kijjoa; Júlia Bessa; Rawiwan Wattanadilok; et al. (1 August 2005). "Dibromotyrosine Derivatives, a Maleimide, Aplysamine-2 and Other Constituents of the Marine Sponge Pseudoceratina purpurea". Zeitschrift für Naturforschung B. 60 (8): 904–908. doi:10.1515/ZNB-2005-0815. ISSN 0932-0776. Wikidata Q105027244.
^Marianne Sadar; David E Williams; Nasrin R Mawji; et al. (4 October 2008). "Sintokamides A to E, chlorinated peptides from the sponge Dysidea sp. that inhibit transactivation of the N-terminus of the androgen receptor in prostate cancer cells". Organic Letters. 10 (21): 4947–4950. doi:10.1021/OL802021W. ISSN 1523-7060. PMID 18834139. Wikidata Q33373804.
^Roger G Linington; Marilyn Robertson; Annick Gauthier; B Brett Finlay; John B. MacMillan; Tadeusz F Molinski; Rob van Soest; Raymond J Andersen (12 January 2006). "Caminosides B-D, antimicrobial glycolipids isolated from the marine sponge Caminus sphaeroconia". Journal of Natural Products. 69 (2): 173–177. doi:10.1021/NP050192H. ISSN 0163-3864. PMID 16499312. Wikidata Q82653366.
^Florence Lefranc; Genoveffa Nuzzo; Nehal Aly Hamdy; et al. (26 August 2013). "In vitro pharmacological and toxicological effects of norterpene peroxides isolated from the Red Sea sponge Diacarnus erythraeanus on normal and cancer cells". Journal of Natural Products. 76 (9): 1541–1547. doi:10.1021/NP400107T. ISSN 0163-3864. PMID 23977995. Wikidata Q50487016.
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sponges belonging to the order Poecilosclerida, first described by RobvanSoest and Eduardo Hajdu in 2002. Genera: Echinostylinos Topsent, 1927 Phelloderma...
Axinellidae, which was first described by Belinda Alvarez, Nicole de Voogd & RobvanSoest in 2016, found in the coastal waters of Badung Strait, Indonesia, (from...
the family Axinellidae. The species was first described in 1996 by RobvanSoest and others as Cymbastela hooperi from a specimen collected from Kelso...
Order: Clathrinida Family: Clathrinidae Genus: Clathrina Species: C. passionensis Binomial name Clathrina passionensis vanSoest, Kaiser & Van Syoc, 2011...
Petrosiidae is a family of sponges, first described in 1980 by RobvanSoest which contains the following four genera: Acanthostrongylophora Hooper, 1984...
about 70 and 90 m (230 and 300 ft). It was first described by Lehnert & RobvanSoest in 1996, the type location being the Greater Antilles. Agelas tubulata...
2008-12-08 at the Wayback Machine, Bernard Picton, Christine Morrow & RobvanSoest World Porifera database, the world list of extant sponges, includes...
Patricia; Cook, Steve de C.; Dietzel, Andreas; Maldonado, Manuel; VanSoest, Rob W.M.; Hooper, John N.A.; Wörheide, Gert (3 March 2012). "Horny sponges...
demosponges in the order Haplosclerida, first described in 1980 by RobvanSoest. It contains the following genera: Amphimedon Duchassaing & Michelotti...
larvae to study polarity, and was formally described by John Hooper and RobvanSoest in 2006. Like most sponges it has a biphasic life cycle, passing through...
Hooper & van Soest, 2008". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 5 March 2022. B. Alvarez; J.N.A. Hooper; R.W.M. VanSoest. (2008). "Pipestela...
Register of Marine Species - Callyspongia (Cladochalina) johannesthielei VanSoest & Hooper, 2020". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2020-05-31. v t e...
It is sometime but not often kept by hobby aquarists. RobvanSoest (2010). R. W. M. VanSoest; N. Boury-Esnault; J. N. A. Hooper; K. Rützler; N. J. de...
Wikidata Q111529763. Reiswig, Henry M. (2002), Hooper, John N. A.; VanSoest, Rob W. M.; Willenz, Philippe (eds.), "Order Lyssacinosida Zittel, 1877"...
Retrieved 11 June 2021. Reiswig, Henry M. (2002), Hooper, John N. A.; VanSoest, Rob W. M.; Willenz, Philippe (eds.), "Family Aulocystidae Sollas, 1887"...
2012-11-18. Freeman, Christopher J.; Gleason, Daniel F.; Ruzicka, Rob; vanSoest, Rob W. M.; Harvey, Alan W.; McFall, Greg (2007). "A biogeographic comparison...
wilsoni. vanSoest, Rob (2016). "Gelliodes fibrosa Dendy, 1905". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 8 May 2016. vanSoest, Rob (2016)....
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