Advances in research on the accumulation, redox behavior, and function of vanadium in ascidians

Biomolecular Concepts

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 97-107

  Michibata, Hitoshi ^a   Ueki, Tatsuya ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

ascidian; hyperaccumulation; metal binding proteins; redox; vanadium

Indexed keywords

ASCIDIA; ASCIDIACEA;

EID: 79952281951     PISSN: 18685021     EISSN: 1868503X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/bmc.2010.003     Document Type: Review

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