Marine Algal Chemical Ecology
A special issue of Marine Drugs (ISSN 1660-3397). This special issue belongs to the section "Marine Chemoecology for Drug Discovery".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 March 2024) | Viewed by 1487
Special Issue Editor
Interests: brown algae; Arctic region; metal pollution; extraction; natural deep eutectic solvents; polysaccharides; polyphenols; lipids; pigments
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Marine algae live in the coastal waters of the seas and oceans and produce a wide variety of unique compounds that can be used to create different products with beneficial properties. Today, marine algae are considered a source of dietary protein, as well as a basis for biofuel production. The influence of freshwater runoff contaminated with various pollutants is especially strong in shallow waters, where marine algae are fixed on the substrate. It is believed that metals, pesticides, and petroleum products can inhibit the growth and reproduction of algae through an indirect effect on the synthesis of important metabolites.
This Special Issue will focus on highlighting the relationship between chemical contaminants and seaweed metabolites, including industry-relevant pharmaceutical, nutraceutical and cosmetical ingredients (hydrocolloids, polyphenols, proteins, lipids, etc.). Studies of the mechanisms of the toxic effect of pollutants in the composition of fractions of polysaccharides, polyphenols, proteins, and lipids of marine algae are welcome.
For this Special Issue, we invite academic and industry scientists to submit reviews and original and conceptual research papers highlighting the chemical ecology of wild and farmed marine algae in the world ocean
Dr. Ekaterina Dmitrievna Obluchinskaya
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- marine algae
- chemical ecology
- polysaccharides
- proteins
- lipids
- polyphenols
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