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In addition the literature on recent developments in marine sources of brominated tyrosine metabolites as well as a complete review of all the marine 1,2 dioxanes of non-sterol biosynthetic origin is discussed. We believe that the present report of 1,2 dioxolanes is the first report of such compounds from a marine source. As is often the case, we cannot be sure that these compounds are true sponge metabolites and not products of a simboiant.","Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-15T23:18:26Z (GMT). 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