Underestimated biodiversity as a major explanation for the perceived rich secondary metabolite capacity of the cyanobacterial genus Lyngbya

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1601-1610

  Engene, Niclas ^a   Choi, Hyukjae ^a   Esquenazi, Eduardo ^a,b   Rottacker, Erin C ^c   Ellisman, Mark H ^c   Dorrestein, Pieter C ^d,e   Gerwick, William H ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research   (United States)

^d Departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOSYNTHESIS; CLASSIFICATION; CYANOBACTERIUM; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NETHERLANDS ANTILLES; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTS; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; CYANOBACTERIA; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NETHERLANDS ANTILLES; PHYLOGENY;

ALGAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; LYNGBYA;

EID: 79957982955     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2011.02472.x     Document Type: Article

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