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Ecdysteroids in Pycnogonids: Hormones and Interspecific Allelochemicals

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Vertical Food Web Interactions

Part of the book series: Ecological Studies ((ECOLSTUD,volume 130))

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The search for biologically active substances from marine organisms during the last two or three decades has provided a vast variety of natural products. While in terrestrial systems plants are the dominating organisms with regard to the number of substances, in marine habitats the invertebrates are the most productive source of secondary metabolites (Faulkner 1994). Most of these compounds from marine invertebrates are assumed to have a defensive function. Consequently, the richest sources of secondary metabolites are those organisms which are sessile and/or soft-bodied, such as sponges, cnidarians, sea slugs, and tunicates (Pawlik 1993). Marine arthropods have been considered to lack chemical defences, as they are generally mobile and/or armoured.

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Tomaschko, KH. (1997). Ecdysteroids in Pycnogonids: Hormones and Interspecific Allelochemicals. In: Dettner, K., Bauer, G., Völkl, W. (eds) Vertical Food Web Interactions. Ecological Studies, vol 130. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60725-7_10

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