Chapter 5 Fatty acid desaturation and chain elongation in eukaryotes

New Comprehensive Biochemistry

Volumn 31, Issue C, 1996, Pages 129-152

  Cook, Harold W ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 0343325943     PISSN: 01677306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-7306(08)60512-8     Document Type: Chapter

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