Metabolomics and its use in ecology

Austral Ecology

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 713-720

  Jones, Oliver A H ^a   Maguire, Mahon L ^c   Griffin, Julian L ^d   Dias, Daniel A ^b   Spurgeon, David J ^e   Svendsen, Claus ^e  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Analytical chemistry; Biology; Ecotoxicology; Metabolic profiling; Metabonomics

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; ECOTOXICOLOGY; FOOD AVAILABILITY; METABOLISM; METABOLITE; PARASITE; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 84882684503     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: 14429993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/aec.12019     Document Type: Article

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