ABSTRACT
Natural products of marine origin have been the main targets in recent years for new compounds for industrial and pharmaceutical purposes. Microbes associated with marine animals including sponges and corals are extensively explored for secondary metabolites (Blunt et al., 2012). Marine fungi occur on a range of substrata/substrates in marine environments including woody
1 Key Laboratory of Marine Biogenetic Resources, Third Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration, 178 Daxue Road, Xiamen 361005, PR China.
