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Marine organisms-Treasure house of valuable products and their chemical perspectives

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Relation http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/13020/
 
Title Marine organisms-Treasure house of
valuable products and their chemical
perspectives
 
Creator Chakraborty, Kajal
Joy, Minju
Salas, Soumya
Krishnan, Soumya
 
Subject Bioactive compounds
 
Description The marine environment covers a wide thermal range (from the below freezing
temperatures in Antarctic waters to about 350°C in deep hydrothermal vents), pressure
range (1-1000 atm), nutrient range (oligotrophic to eutrophic) and it has extensive photic
and non-photic zones. This extensive variability has facilitated speciation at all phylogenetic
levels, from unicellular microorganisms to mammals. New metabolites from marine organisms
have resulted in the isolation of more or less 10,000 metabolites, many of which are endowed
with pharmacodynamic properties. Considering its great taxonomic diversity, investigations
related to the search of new bioactive compounds from the marine environment can be
seen as an almost unlimited field. Of note is that the chemical compounds with pluralities
of bioactive properties are present in the marine organisms as an adaptive mechanism to
survive against the extreme stress factors in the oceanic ecosystems, which cannot be found
in terrestrial organisms.
 
Date 2018
 
Type Conference or Workshop Item
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format text
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/13020/1/Winter%20School_Recent%20Advances_Bioactive%20compounds_Chapter%203.pdf
Chakraborty, Kajal and Joy, Minju and Salas, Soumya and Krishnan, Soumya (2018) Marine organisms-Treasure house of valuable products and their chemical perspectives. 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.