RETRACTED: Antimicrobial secondary metabolites from marine gastropod egg capsules and egg masses

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy).This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor-in-Chief and the First Author.Both the first author and the journal's editor confirmed that Dr. A Yogamoorthi is not responsible for the plagiarism since his/her name was added without consent.The authors have plagiarized parts of various papers that had already appeared as follows:1. Westley, C.B., McIver, C.M., Abbott, C.A., Le Leu, R.K. and Benkendorff, K.,. Enhanced acute apoptotic response to azoxymethane-induced DNA damage in rodent colonic epithelium by Tyrian purple precursors: A potential colorectal cancer chemopreventative. Cancer Biol Ther 2010; 9(5): 371-379. Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4161/cbt.9.5.10887.2. Benkendorff, K., Davis, A.R., Rogers, C.N. and Bremner, J.B. Free fatty acids and sterols in the benthic spawn of aquatic molluscs, and their associated antimicrobial properties. J Exp Mar Biol Ecol 2005; 316:29-44. Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jembe.2004.10.001.3. Benkendorff, K. 1999. Bioactive Molluscan Resources and Their Conservation: Chemical and Biological Studies on the Egg Masses of Marine Molluscs. PhD THesis, University of Wollongong4. Edwards, V., Benkendorff, K and Young, F. 2012. Marine compounds selectively induce apoptosis in female reproductive cancer cells but not in primary derived female granulosa cells. Mar Drugs 2012; 10: 64-83. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/md10010064.5. Benkendorff, K., Pillai, R. and Bremner, J.B. 2,4,5-Tribromo-1H-imidazole in the egg masses of three muricid molluscs. Nat Prod Res 2004; 18: 427-431.49. Noble, W.J., Cocks, R.R., Harris J.O. and Benkendorff, K. 2009. Application of anesthetics for sex identification and bioactive compound recovery from wild Dicathais orbita. J Exp Mar Biol Ecol 2009; 380: 53-60. Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jembe.2009.09.0066. Benkendorff, K., Davis, A.R. and Bremner J.B. Chemical defense in the egg masses of benthic invertebrates: An assessment of antibacterial activity in 39 molluscs and 4 polychaetes. J Invertebr Pathol 2001; 78: 109-118. Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/jipa.2001.5047.One of the conditions of submission of a paper for publication is that authors declare explicitly that their work is original and has not appeared in a publication elsewhere. Re-use of any data should be appropriately cited. As such this article represents a severe abuse of the scientific publishing system. The scientific community takes a very strong view on this matter and apologies are offered to readers of the journal that this was not detected during the submission process.