Polar marine biota have adapted to thrive under one of the ocean's most inhospitable
scenarios, where extremes of temperature, light photoperiod and ice disturbance, along with …

The marine environment with its vast biological diversity encompasses many organisms that
produce bioactive natural products. Marine microorganisms are rich sources of compounds …

Marine invertebrates including sponges, soft coral, tunicates, mollusks and bryozoan have
proved to be a prolific source of bioactive natural products. Among marine-derived …

Natural products have a huge value in pharmaceuticals industry as molecules or templates
for discovery or further development of new drugs. It is predicted that, if the marine resources …

Some 3.5 billion years ago, microorganisms were the first to colonize Earth. They have
gradually evolved, within intricate systems of microbial and macroscopic species, to occupy …

This review covers the literature on marine natural products published in 2011. Natural
products from a variety of marine sources with unusual structural features or interesting …

Covering: up to the end of 2014 Out of the many bioactive compounds described from the
oceans, only a small fraction have been studied for their ecological significance. Similarly …

Marine organisms produce a wide array of fascinating terpenoid structures distinguished by
characteristic structural features. Certain structural classes, eg cembrane, chamigrene …

Covering: through June 2021 Terpenoids are the largest class of natural products
recognised to date. While mostly known to humans as bioactive plant metabolites and part of …

With the development of the self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (SCUBA) and
other recently developed marine collecting techniques, numerous bioactive secondary …