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Antipredatory Defensive Roles of Natural Products from Marine Invertebrates

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This chapter provides a broad and critical evaluation of investigations of the antipredatory defenses of marine invertebrates with a target audience of graduate students in ecology or natural products chemistry. After considering important concepts and theoretical issues associated with the research topic, techniques for assessing invertebrate chemical defenses against predators are detailed, with a focus on potential methodological problems. In particular, the importance of determining concentrations of metabolites in invertebrate tissues using a volumetric rather than gravimetric method is explained. Relevant concepts from the recent literature are reviewed and discussed, including the cost of chemical defenses, synergistic effects of defenses, optimization of defenses, and structure-activity relationships of deterrent metabolites. Comparisons are made between the life histories and evolutionary environments of terrestrial and marine invertebrates to argue that the highly optimized chemical defense mechanisms and complex systems of color mimicry described for some terrestrial insects are unlikely to be equaled among marine invertebrates.

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The author thanks his graduate students for editorial comments on earlier drafts of this chapter. This work was supported by grants from the National Science Foundation’s Biological Oceanography Program (OCE 0550468, 1029515).

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Pawlik, J.R. (2012). Antipredatory Defensive Roles of Natural Products from Marine Invertebrates. In: Fattorusso, E., Gerwick, W., Taglialatela-Scafati, O. (eds) Handbook of Marine Natural Products. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3834-0_12

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