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A Fish-feeding Laboratory Bioassay to Assess the Antipredatory Activity of Secondary Metabolites from the Tissues of Marine Organisms
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Isomalabaricane-type compounds from the marine sponge Rhabdastrella aff. distincta

Fang Lv1, Zhiwei Deng, Jun Li

  • 1State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs, Peking University, Beijing 100083, People's Republic of China.

Journal of Natural Products
|December 29, 2004
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