Genetic biomarkers of the sterol-biosynthetic pathway in microalgae

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 35-44

  Villanueva, Laura ^a   Rijpstra, W Irene C ^a   Schouten, Stefan ^a   Damsté, Jaap S Sinninghe ^a  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOARTENOL SYNTHASE; MUTASE; RIBULOSEBISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE; STEROL;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DIATOM; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROALGA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; DIATOMS; GENETIC MARKERS; INTRAMOLECULAR TRANSFERASES; MICROALGAE; PHYLOGENY; RIBULOSE-BISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; STEROLS;

EID: 84892654351     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1758-2229.12106     Document Type: Article

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