ReviewMarine drugs2014
Cephalopod ink: production, chemistry, functions and applications.
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45 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 200 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Silver nanochitosan: a sustainable approach for enhanced antimicrobial, antioxidant, and anticancer applications.3 Biotech · 2025Article
- Metagenomic Insights Into the Role of Gut Microbes in the Defensive Ink "Tsunabi" of Physeteroid Whales.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- A Comprehensive Review on the Valorization of Bioactives from Marine Animal By-Products for Health-Promoting, Biofunctional Cosmetics.Marine drugs · 2025Review
- Decoding deception: the binding affinity of cuttlefish ink on shark smell receptors.G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2025Article
- Melanin in fungi: advances in structure, biosynthesis, regulation, and metabolic engineering.Microbial cell factories · 2024Review
- Antimicrobial and cytotoxic activities of flavonoid and phenolics extracted from Sepia pharaonis ink (Mollusca: Cephalopoda).BMC biotechnology · 2024Article
- Influence of Cuttlefish-Ink Extract on Canned Golden Seabream (Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Evolutionary history influences the microbiomes of a female symbiotic reproductive organ in cephalopods.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2024Article
- The best defense is a good offense: Anti-predator behavior of the common octopus (Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Ritualized ink use during visual courtship display by males of the sexually dimorphic cuttlefishEcology and evolution · 2024Article
- Antioxidant Activity of an Aqueous Extract of Cuttlefish Ink during Fish Muscle Heating.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Insights into Common Octopus (Marine drugs · 2023Article
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- Extraction Optimization and Structural Characteristics of Chitosan from Cuttlefish (Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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Abstract
One of the most distinctive and defining features of coleoid cephalopods-squid, cuttlefish and octopus-is their inking behavior. Their ink, which is blackened by melanin, but also contains other constituents, has been used by humans in various ways for millennia. This review summarizes our current knowledge of cephalopod ink. Topics include: (1) the production of ink, including the functional organization of the ink sac and funnel organ that produce it; (2) the chemical components of ink, with a focus on the best known of these-melanin and the biochemical pathways involved in its production; (3) the neuroecology of the use of ink in predator-prey interactions by cephalopods in their natural environment; and (4) the use of cephalopod ink by humans, including in the development of drugs for biomedical applications and other chemicals for industrial and other commercial applications. As is hopefully evident from this review, much is known about cephalopod ink and inking, yet more striking is how little we know. Towards closing that gap, future directions in research on cephalopod inking are suggested.
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