Encyclopedia of Marine Natural Products, 3 Volume Set

Jean-Michel Kornprobst

1680 pages

April 2010, Wiley-Blackwell

Description

This exhaustive listing of almost all marine natural products known to date adopts a unique approach in its classification of the compounds by biological species. It also provides background information on the respective species, based on the biological classification of the organisms from which these compounds are derived. The treatise covers more than 8,700 formula, 14,000 references, and 650 websites on almost 1700 pages.

From the contents:
* General and Bibliographic Resources
* Archaea (Archaebacteria) and Eubacteria
* Photosynthetic Eucaryotes
* Fungi and other non-photosynthetic unicellular eucaryotes
* Diploblastic animals
* Protostomes
* Deuterostomes
Indispensable for marine biologists and chemists exploring natural products, as well as for the pharmaceutical and food industries and the agribusiness.

Table of Contents

GENERAL ASPECTS AND DOCUMENTARY RESOURCES
Systems of Classification of Living Organisms: Great Steps in Chemical and Biological Evolution
General Information on the Marine Environment
Chemistry of Marine Natural Products: Originality, Diversity, Distribution
Basic Marine Pharmacology
Documentary Resources
ARCHAEA (ARCHAEBACTERIA) AND EUBACTERIA
Archaea (Archaebacteria)
Eubacteria 1
Eubacteria 2
PHOTOSYNTHETIC EUKARYOTES
Bacillariophyceae (Diatoms)
Chrysophyceae, Raphidophyceae, Haptophyceae
Dinophyceae (Dinoflagellates)
Chlorophyceae (Green Algae) and Marine Spermatophyta
Rhodophyceae (Red Algae)
Phaeophyceae (Brown Algae)
Major Uses of Macroalgae
FUNGI AND OTHER UNICELLULAR NON-PHOTOSYNTHETIC EUKARYOTES
Fungi
Thraustochytrids and Ciliates
Introduction to Marine Biotechnology
DIPLOBLASTIC ORGANISMS: PORIFERA, CNIDARIA, CTENOPHORA
Porifera (Sponges)
Cnidaria and Ctenophora
PROTOSTOMES
Worm-like Organisms: 1
Bryozoans, Phoronida, Brachiopoda
Molluscs
Arthropoda
Introduction to chemical ecology
DEUTEROSTOMES
Echinodermata
Worm-like Organisms: 2. Chaetognatha, Hemichordata (Enteropneusta and Pterobranchia)
Ascidians (Tunicates)
Vertebrates: Fish, Reptiles, Mammals