Biogeography and biodiscovery hotspots of macroalgal marine natural products

Coverage period: 1965 to 2012 This review covers the literature published for marine natural products isolated from macroalgae and addresses the taxonomic details of source organisms, the chemical types of isolated compounds and the location of sampling sites. The emphasis of this review is on the identification of the most bioprospected taxa and regions, as well as on how these trends have shifted over time. The goal of this review is to characterise the trends of marine natural product discovery from macroalgae as a means to highlight biodiscovery hotspots, as well as temporal and spatial patterns associated with macroalgal bioprospecting.