Microalgal metabolites: A new perspective

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue , 1996, Pages 431-465

  Shimizu, Yuzuru ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

biosynthesis; food chain; genetic; phylogenic relationship; secondary metabolites; symbiosis

Indexed keywords

ALGA; FOOD CHAIN; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYMBIOSIS; TAXONOMY;

ALGAE; CLASSIFICATION; ECOLOGY; EICOSANOIDS; ETHERS; MACROLIDES; MARINE TOXINS; PHYLOGENY; STEROLS; SYMBIOSIS;

ALGAE; PROTOCTISTA;

EID: 0029843191     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.50.1.431     Document Type: Review

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