Marine natural products of sea cucumbers and sea stars in Argentina: bioactivity and chemical ecology

MUNIAIN CLAUDIA; CENTURIÓN ROMINA; CAREAGA VALERIA; ESPOZ CARMEN; MAIER MARTA

Ischia, Nápoles, Italia

Conferencia; V European Conference on Marine Natural Products; 2007

This work presents an updated checklist of the results obtained from interdisciplinary research lines in Argentina on the isolation, evaluation of biological activities and ecological role of secondary metabolites from the sea stars Allostichaster inaequalis, Anasterias minuta, Cosmasterias lurida, Heliaster helianthus, Labidiaster annulatus and Luidia ludwigi, the ophiuroids Astrotoma agassizii, Ophiactis asperula, Ophiacantha vivipara, Ophiocoma echinata, Ophioplocus januari, Ophionotus victoriae and Gorgonocephalus chilensis, and the sea cucumbers Hemiodema spectabilis, Psolus patagonicus, Staurocucumis liouvillei and Athyonidium chilensis.