The ocean occupies three-fourths of the Earth's surface and hosts approximately 80% of all
living species. In fact, some areas of the sea such as coral reefs possess a biodiversity …

Marine pharmacology, the pharmacology of marine natural products, has been for some
time more associated with marine natural products chemistry rather than mainstay …

Alkaloids, such as lamellarins1 and manzamines, 2 with complex structures and promising
biological activities produced by marine plants, invertebrates and microbes have greatly …

Covering: 1999–2003Marine invertebrates and a growing number of marine bacteria are the
sources of novel, bioactive secondary metabolites. Structurally, many of these compounds …

A total of 106 actinobacteria associated with the marine sponge Hymeniacidon perleve
collected from the Yellow Sea, China were isolated using eight different media. The number …

After years of inadequate use and the emergence of multidrug resistant (MDR) strains, the
efficiency of “classical” antibiotics has decreased significantly. New drugs to fight MDR …

A significant number of halogenated low molecular weight metabolites have exhibited an
impressive array of biological properties ranging from antimicrobial to insecticidal activities …

Marine sponges have a long history of farming, starting with bath sponges over 5000 years
ago in the Mediterranean. Many species have since been found appropriate for distinct …

There is a growing interest in the use of small molecules as chemical probes in parallel to
classical genomic tools (gene expression, gene profiling, gene knockouts, and siRNA-based …

A novel pentacyclic alkaloid, citrinadin A (1), was isolated from the cultured broth of the
fungus Penicillium citrinum, which was separated from a marine red alga, and the structure …