title: Secondary metabolites from the marine gastropod molluscs of Antarctica, southern Africa and South America.
abstract: Despite their perceived inaccessibility, the marine intertidal and benthic environments of Antarctica, southern Africa and South America have continued to provide marine natural products for chemists with unique opportunities to study the secondary metabolite constituents and chemical ecology of a diverse array of marine gastropod molluscs. This review covers the literature up to 31 January 2005 and describes the structures and, where applicable, biological activities of 100 secondary metabolites isolated from 21 species of marine gastropod molluscs. Not unexpectedly, the chemistry of chemically defended shell-less opisthobranchs dominates the natural product studies of molluscs collected from these regions of the southern hemisphere.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, P.O. Box 94, Rhodes University 6140 Grahamstown, South Africa.
authors.forename: M T
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Davies-Coleman
mesh_terms: D000353:Africa, Southern; D000818:Animals; D000864:Antarctic Regions; D044822:Biodiversity; D001685:Biological Factors / Q000737:chemistry*; D008386:Marine Biology; D008974:Mollusca / Q000737:chemistry*; D013020:South America; D013045:Species Specificity
chemical_list: D001685:Biological Factors