Brown Algae from San Andres Island, Southwest Caribbean: A Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy–Metabolomic Study
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Collection of Biological Material
2.2. General Experimental Procedures
2.3. Comparison of the Metabolic Profile Between Species and Non-Targeted Metabolomic Experiment
2.4. Extraction and Isolation Elucidation of Compounds (1) and (2)
3. Results
3.1. Metabolic Profiling of Brown Algae Samples of the Order Dictyotales
3.2. 1H-NMR Species Comparison Metabolomic Experiment
3.3. Effect of Collection Date and Growth Substrate on the Metabolic Profiles of Brown Algae Species
3.4. Juvenile Dictyota spp. Metabolic Profile
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Species | Collection Months | Substrate(s) |
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Canistrocarpus crispatus | January 2019, May 2019 | Coralline rock, Dead Coral |
Stypopodium zonale | May 2018, January 2019, May 2019 | Coralline rock, Dead Coral |
Padina gymnospora | January 2019, May 2019 | Coralline rock, Sand |
Dictyopteris delicatula | May 2018, January 2019, May 2019 | Coralline rock, Dead Coral |
Dictyota spp. | October 2019 | Coralline rock |
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de la Roche, F.; Abril, S.P.; Sepulveda, L.J.; Piza, A.; Castellanos, L.; Rincón, N.; Puyana, M.; Ramos, F.A. Brown Algae from San Andres Island, Southwest Caribbean: A Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy–Metabolomic Study. Metabolites 2025, 15, 305. https://doi.org/10.3390/metabo15050305
de la Roche F, Abril SP, Sepulveda LJ, Piza A, Castellanos L, Rincón N, Puyana M, Ramos FA. Brown Algae from San Andres Island, Southwest Caribbean: A Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy–Metabolomic Study. Metabolites. 2025; 15(5):305. https://doi.org/10.3390/metabo15050305
Chicago/Turabian Stylede la Roche, Felipe, Sara P. Abril, Lady J. Sepulveda, Anderson Piza, Leonardo Castellanos, Natalia Rincón, Mónica Puyana, and Freddy A. Ramos. 2025. "Brown Algae from San Andres Island, Southwest Caribbean: A Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy–Metabolomic Study" Metabolites 15, no. 5: 305. https://doi.org/10.3390/metabo15050305
APA Stylede la Roche, F., Abril, S. P., Sepulveda, L. J., Piza, A., Castellanos, L., Rincón, N., Puyana, M., & Ramos, F. A. (2025). Brown Algae from San Andres Island, Southwest Caribbean: A Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy–Metabolomic Study. Metabolites, 15(5), 305. https://doi.org/10.3390/metabo15050305