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amphipods; C-11 sulfur compounds; Dictyopteris spp.; marine
ecology; plant-herbivore interactions; sea urchins
Seaweed chemical defenses; coral-reef herbivores; marine brown-
algae; insect equivalents; predation; plant; susceptibility;
biosynthesis; resistance; chemotaxis
Abstract:
Brown seaweeds in the genus Dictyopteris produce several C-11 sulfur metabolites that appear biosynthetically related to the C-11 compounds known to attract sperm to female gametes of many brown algae. All four of the C-11 sulfur compounds that we teste