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Marine biodiversity: An important resource base to develop bioactive compounds for health and diseases

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Title Marine biodiversity: An important resource base to develop bioactive compounds for health and diseases
 
Creator Joshi, K K
Sethulakshmi, M
Sheeba, K B
Thobias, P A
Varsha, M S
 
Subject Bioactive compounds
 
Description A bioactive compound means a substance which has a biological activity. The definition
of bioactive compounds takes different dimensions like deriving from nature or synthetic,
compounds usually occur in small quantity, adhere potential effect on human health. It is
well known that many organism like sponge, jellyfish, fish, coral, mussels, bivalves, sea hare,
seahorse, crustacean, marine plants and turtles yield bioactive compounds of great
importance to human welfare.
The long coastline of 8129 Km2 with an EEZ of 2.02 million Sq. km including the continental
shelf of 0.5 million Sq. Km harbors extensively rich multitude of species. Vast regions of
mangroves are found along the coast of West Bengal, Orissa, Andhra Pradesh, Tamilnadu,
Maharashtra, Gujarat and Andaman Islands which extends up to about 682000 ha area. Coral
reefs are found in the Gulf of Kutch, along the Maharashtra coast, Kerala coast, in the Gulf of
Mannar, Palk Bay and the Wadge Bank along the Tamilnadu coast and around Andaman and
Lakshadweep Islands. The variety of coastal ecosystems include brackish water lakes, lagoons,
estuaries, back waters, salt marshes, rocky bottom, sandy bottom and muddy areas provides
a home and shelter for the mega biodiversity of India. These regions support very rich fauna
and flora and constitute rich biological diversity of marine ecosystems. This great mega
diversity of abundant species along the Indian marine ecosystems provided immense
opportunity for the exploration and utilization of the bioactive compounds.
 
Date 2018
 
Type Conference or Workshop Item
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format text
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/12977/1/Winter%20School_Recent%20Advances_Bioactive%20compounds_Chapter%2039.pdf
Joshi, K K and Sethulakshmi, M and Sheeba, K B and Thobias, P A and Varsha, M S (2018) Marine biodiversity: An important resource base to develop bioactive compounds for health and diseases. In: Winter School on “Recent advances in bioactive compounds from marine organisms and development of high value products for health management, ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Kochi.