Defensive polyketides produced by an abundant gastropod are candidate keystone molecules in estuarine ecology.

Infaunal molluscs recovered in cores comprised juvenile bivalves and the heterobranch snail Acteocina inculta ; abundance decreased more than 10-fold in response to Alderia extract, a highly significant change ( P < 0.001; Fig. 4E and Table 3 ).

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Even a single application of extract also had a near-significant effect on overall community diversity, indicating that slug compounds reduce diversity as well as abundance of mudflat meiofauna and macrofauna dwelling in the upper sediment layers.

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