Environmental metabolomics: A critical review and future perspectives

Metabolomics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 3-21

  Bundy, Jacob G ^a   Davey, Matthew P ^b   Viant, Mark R ^c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ecophysiology; Ecotoxicogenomics; Ecotoxicology; Environmental sciences; Metabolomics; Metabonomics

Indexed keywords

EID: 61849165638     PISSN: 15733882     EISSN: 15733890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11306-008-0152-0     Document Type: Review

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