Includes index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (ScienceDirect, viewed September 29, 2015).

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

1. A Review of the Ecological Role of Chemical Defenses in Facilitating Biological Invasion by Marine Benthic Organisms, Bruno Gualberto Lages, Beatriz Grosso Fleury and Joel Christopher; 2. Rational Approach to the Design of Bioactive Peptidomimetics: Recent Developments in Opioid Agonist Peptides, Adriano Mollica, Azzurra Stefanucci, Roberto Costante and Victor J. Hruby ; 3. Structure-Activity Relationships in the Host-Defense Antimicrobial Peptides Defensins, Himanshu Sharma and Ramakrishanan Nagaraj; 4. Developments in the Synthesis of 3-Acyltetramic Acid Natural Products, Hidemi Yoda, Masaki Takahashi, and Tetsuya Sengoku; 5. Bioactive Alkaloids of Hallucinogenic Mushrooms, Piotr Pawel Wieczorek, Danuta Witkowska, Izabela Jasicka-Misiak, Anna Poliwoda, Milena Oterman and Katarzyna Zielinska; 6. Steroidal Conjugates: Synthesis, Spectroscopic and Biological Studies, Tomasz Pospieszny; 7. Recent Developments in the Synthesis of the Flavours and Fragrances of Terpenoid Origin, Stefano Serra; 8. Recent Developments on the Synthesis and Applications of Natural Products-Inspired Spirooxindole Frameworks, Srinivasarao Arulananda Babu, Rayavarapu Padmavathi, Nayyar Ahmad Aslam and Vadla Rajkumar; 9. Alkaloids: A Source of Anticancer Agents from Nature, Ajai Prakash Gupta, Pankaj Pandotra, Manoj Kushwaha, Rajni Sharma and Suphla Gupta; 10. Recent Advances in the Chemistry and Biology of Natural Dimeric Quinones, Hidayat Hussain, Ahmed Al-Harrasi, Ivan R. Green, Ghulam Abbas and Ishtiaq Ahmed; 11. Phytomelatonin: Searching for Plants with High Levels for Use as a Natural Nutraceutical, Marino B. Arnao and Josefa Hern�andez-Ruiz