“…Sponges, in particular, are responsible for a large number of these compounds, which exhibit a wide range of activities including antitumor (Baslow and Turlapaty, 1969), antiviral (Carter and Rinehart, 1978), antibacterial (Sharma and Burkholder, 1967), and antifungal activity (Phillipson and Rinehart, 1983). The compounds also show broad chemical diversity and are among others comprised of unusual nucleosides (Quinn et al, 1980), terpenes (Cimino et al, 1971), peptides (Stonard and Andersen, 1980), alkaloids (Braekman et al, 1982), fatty acids (Morales and Litchfield, 1976), and unnatural amino acid (which are frequently halogenated) (Crews et al, 1986;Inman and Crews, 1989). It is believed that the early appearance of sponges in evolution has afforded them sufficient time to develop an advanced chemical defence system (Sipkema et al, 2005).…”