Carotenoids Database: Structures, chemical fingerprints and distribution among organisms

Database

Volumn 2017, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Yabuzaki, Junko ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

^b NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAROTENOID;

BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; FACTUAL DATABASE; GENETICS;

CAROTENOIDS; DATABASES, FACTUAL;

EID: 85015953689     PISSN: 17580463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/database/bax004     Document Type: Article

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