Jean-Michel Kornprobst worked for over 25 years on the chemical analysis of marine natural products, first in Dakar, Senegal and later in Nantes, France. He received his Ph.D. in chemical engineering at the Ecole Nationale Superieure in Montpellier and is currently emeritus at the University of Nantes, where he headed the laboratory of marine chemistry.

• VOLUME 1: GENERAL ASPECTS, MICROORGANISMS, ALGAE, AND FUNGIPART 1 GENERAL ASPECTS AND DOCUMENTARY RESOURCESSystems of Classification of Living Organisms: Great Steps in Chemical and Biological EvolutionGeneral Information on the Marine EnvironmentChemistry of Marine Natural Products: Originality, Diversity, DistributionBasic Marine PharmacologyDocumentary ResourcesPART 2 ARCHAEA (ARCHAEBACTERIA) AND EUBACTERIAArchaea Eubacteria 1Eubacteria 2PART 3 PHOTOSYNTHETIC EUKARYOTESBacillariophyceae (Diatoms) Chrysophyceae, Raphidophyceae, HaptophyceaeDinophyceae (Dinoflagellates)Chlorophyceae (Green Algae) and Marine SpermatophytaRhodophyceae (Red Algae)Phaeophyceae (Brown Algae)Major Uses of MacroalgaePART 4 FUNGI AND OTHER UNICELLULAR NONPHOTOSYNTHETIC EUKARYOTES FungiThraustochytrids and CiliatesIntroduction to Marine BiotechnologyVOLUME 2: PORIFERA, CNIDARIA, AND CTENOPHORAPART 5 DIPLOBLASTIC ORGANISMS: PORIFERA, CNIDARIA, CTENOPHORAPorifera (Sponges)Cnidaria and CtenophoraVOLUME3: PROTOSTOMES AND DEUTEROSTOMESPART 6 PROTOSTOMESWorm-like Organisms 1Bryozoans, Phoronida, BrachiopodaMollusksArthropodaIntroduction to chemical ecologyPART 7 DEUTEROSTOMESEchinodermataWorm-like Organisms 2: Chaetognatha, Hemichordata (Enteropneusta and Pterobranchia)Ascidians (Tunicates)Vertebrates: Fish, Reptiles, and Mammals

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