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Using a number of outstanding examples, this text introduces readers to the immense variety of marine natural compounds, the methodologies to characterize them and the approaches to explore their industrial potential. Care is also taken to discuss the function and ecological context of the compounds.
Carefully produced and easy to read, this book serves students and professionals wishing to familiarize themselves with the field, and is ideally suited as a course book for both industry to academia.

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PART 1. OUTSTANDING MARINE MOLECULES FROM A CHEMICAL POINT OF VIEW
Marine Cyanotoxins Potentially Harmful to Human Health (Mélanie Roué, Muriel Gugger, Stjepko Golubic, Zouher Amzil, Romulo Aráoz, Jean Turquet, Mireille Chinain, Dominique Laurent)
Marine Biotoxins: STX, TTX, CTX (Philippe Amade, Mohamed Mehiri, Richard J. Lewis)
Impact of Marine-Derived Penicillium Species in the Discovery of New Potential Antitumor Drugs (Yves-Fran‡ois Pouchus, Marieke Vansteelandt, Catherine Roullier, Elodie Blanchet, Yan Guitton)
Astonishing Fungal Diversity in Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Ecosystems: An Untapped Resource of Biotechnological Potential? (Ga‰tan Burgaud, Laurence Meslet-Cladière, Georges Barbier, Virginia. P. Edgcomb)
Glycolipids from Marine Invertebrates (Gilles Barnathan, Aurélie Couzinet-Mossion, Ga‰tane Wielgosz-Collin, Nicolas Ruiz, Olivier Grovel)
Pigments of Living Fossil Crinoids (Jean-Michel Kornprobst, Cécile Debitus)
PART 2. OUTSTANDING MARINE MOLECULES FROM AN ECOLOGICAL POINT OF VIEW
Bacterial Communication Systems (Tilmann Harder, Scott Rice, Sergey Dobretsov, Torsten Thomas, Alyssa Carré-Mlouka, Staffan Kjellberg, Peter Steinberg, Diane McDougald)
Domoic Acid (Stéphane La Barre, Stephen Bates, Michael Quilliam)
Algal Morphoinducers (Bénédicte Charrier, Zofia Nehr)
Halogenation and Vanadium Haloperoxidases (Catherine Leblanc, Jean-Baptiste Fournier)
PART 3. OUTSTANDING MARINE MOLECULES FOR THEIR BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITIES
New Promising Substances in Pharmacology (Marie-Lise Bourguet-Kondracki, Jean-Michel Kornprobst)
Promises of the Unprecedented Aminosterol Squalamine (Jean-Michel Brunel, Marie-Lise Bourguet-Kondracki)
Marine Peptide Secondary Metabolites (Bernard Banaigs, Isabelle Bonnard, Anne Witzak, Nicolas Inguimbert)
Conotoxins and other Conopeptides (David Craik, Quentin Kaas)
Mycosporin-Like Amino Acids (MAAs) in Biological Photosystems (Stéphane La Barre, Jo‰l Boustie, Catherine Roulier)
The Extracellular Hemoglobins from Annelids and their Potentials used in Biotechnology (Franck Zal, Morgan Rousselot)
Lamellarins: A Tribu of Bioactive Marine Natural Products (Christian Bailly)
PART 4: NEW TRENDS IN ANALYTICAL METHODS
NMR to Elucidate Structure (Stéphane Cérantola, Ga‰lle Simon, Nelly Kervarec)
General Introduction to Omics (Catherine Boyen, Jonas Collén)
Gene Mining for Environmental Studies and Applications: Examples from Marine Organisms (Thierry Tonon, Simon Dittami)
Proteomics and Metabolomics of Marine Organisms: Current Strategies and Knowledge (Philippe Potin, Funny Gaillard)
Genomics of the Biosynthesis of Natural Products: From Genes to Metabolites (Olivier Ploux, Annick Méjean)
High-Throughput Screening of Marine Resources (Stéphane Bach, Arnaud Hochard, Luc Reininger, Sandrine Ruchaud)

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