Crowdfunding the Azolla fern genome project: A grassroots approach

GigaScience

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Li, Fay Wei ^a   Pryer, Kathleen M ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Azolla; Crowdfunding; Cyanobacteria; Fern; Genome sequencing; Nitrogen fixation; Nostoc; Op ed; Social media; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

AZOLLA; CROWDFUNDING; EXPLORATORY RESEARCH; FERN; FUNDING; GENE SEQUENCE; NOTE; PLANT GENOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL PARTICIPATION; TRANSCRIPTOMICS;

EID: 84941786551     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2047217X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2047-217X-3-16     Document Type: Note

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