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Título: Chemical defense in the seaweed Laurencia obtusa (Hudson) Lamoroux
Autores/as: Granado Reyes, Inmaculada
Caballero Ortega, Pascual
Clasificación UNESCO: 241705 Biología marina
Palabras clave: Ecología marina
Metabolitos marinos
Efectos fisiológicos
Fecha de publicación: 1995
Publicación seriada: Scientia Marina 
Conferencia: VIII Iberian Symposium on Marine Benthos Studies
Resumen: The marine red alga Laurencia obtusa is a low preference food for the herbivorous gastropods Littorina striata and Osilinus atratus, when offered in the presence of Enteromorpha ramulosa or Ulva rigida, in laboratory assays using the agar suspension method. Neither nitrogen content nor total and available caloric contents could explain this low preference. L. obtusa produces secondary metabolites that can lower its palatability to herbivores. The low susceptibility to grazing by snails in these species of algae seems to be associated with the presence of these secondary metabolites. Feeding by Osilinus was significantly inhibited by crude extract, non-polar and polar fractions of Laurencia. The polar fraction did not deter feeding by Littorina. Some of the pure metabolites (elatol, isobtusol, and obtusol) isolated from the non-polar fraction of L. obtusa significantly reduced feeding by both snails. In contrast, obtusane significantly diminished grazing by Osilinus but not by Littorina. To test whether extracts and individual terpenes were toxic on non-grazer species; their effects on survival of fish larvae (Sparus aurata) were analyzed. Elatol was the most effective in producing the death of larvae, while obtusane was not active at the used concentrations.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10553/794
ISBN: 2148358
ISSN: 0214-8358
Fuente: Scientia Marina. v. 59 (Supl.1), pp. 31-39
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