Phylogenomic study of lipid genes involved in microalgal biofuel production-candidate gene mining and metabolic pathway analyses

Evolutionary Bioinformatics

Volumn 2012, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 545-564

  Misra, Namrata ^a   Panda, Prasanna Kumar ^a   Parida, Bikram Kumar ^a   Mishra, Barada Kanta ^a  

^a CSIR INSTITUTE OF MINERALS AND MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Biofuel; Bioinformatics; Lipid biosynthetic genes; Microalgae; Phylogenomics

Indexed keywords

ALGA; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BIOFUEL PRODUCTION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; COMPARATIVE GENE MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANIDIOSCHYZON MEROLAE; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENOME ANALYSIS; LIPOGENESIS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; MICROALGA; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; OSTREOCOCCUS; OSTREOCOCCUS LUCIMARINUS; OSTREOCOCCUS TAURI; PHYLOGENOMICS; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PLANT GENE; PLANT GENOME; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; VOLVOX; VOLVOX CARTERI;

ALGAE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CYANIDIOSCHYZON MEROLAE; OSTREOCOCCUS; OSTREOCOCCUS TAURI; STREPTOPHYTA; VOLVOX CARTERI;

EID: 84866753040     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11769343     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4137/EBO.S10159     Document Type: Article

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