Biodiversity and natural product diversity / Francesco Pietra.
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TextSeries: Tetrahedron organic chemistry series ; v 21.Publication details: Amsterdam ; Pergamon, 2002.Description: xiv, 351 pages : illustrations (some col.), col. maps ; 25 cmISBN: - 9780080437071
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Defining biodiversity --
2. The course of biodiversity --
3. Taxonomym, phylogeny, and natural products --
4. The problem of unculturable species --
5. Natural product diversity: at which rank? --
6. Terrestrial and freshwater biomes --
7. The oceans --
8. The widespread distribution of natural products --
9. Terrestrial vs marine natural product diversity --
10. Life under extreme conditions --
11. Graphic analysis of the skeletal diversity and complexity of natural products --
12. Signaling, defensive, and environmentally relevant metabolites --
13. Exploiting natural product diversity --
14. The role of biotechnology --
15. The role of chemical synthesis --
16. Threatening natural product diversity --
17. Management of natural product diversity.
Francesco Pietra's study focuses on representative examples of biodiversity and natural products that exhibit diversity drawn from the literature and the author's own observations.
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