Secondary metabolic gene clusters: Evolutionary toolkits for chemical innovation

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 449-457

  Osbourn, Anne ^a  

^a JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTINOBACTERIA; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME; DISEASE RESISTANCE; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHM; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONTROL; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOME; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ASTRONOMY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, CHEMICAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MULTIGENE FAMILY;

FUNGI;

EID: 77956767424     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2010.07.001     Document Type: Review

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