The Algal Revolution

Trends in Plant Science

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2017, Pages 726-738

  Brodie, Juliet ^a   Chan, Cheong Xin ^b   De Clerck, Olivier ^c   Cock, J Mark ^d   Coelho, Susana M ^d   Gachon, Claire ^e   Grossman, Arthur R ^f   Mock, Thomas ^g   Raven, John A ^h,i   Smith, Alison G ^j   Yoon, Hwan Su ^k   Bhattacharya, Debashish ^l  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^e SCOTTISH MARINE INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^f GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^h SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^j UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^k Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

^l RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Author keywords

Archaeplastida; genomics; origin of multicellularity; plastid endosymbiosis; systems biology

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOTECHNOLOGY; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; STRAMENOPILE; SYMBIOSIS;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIOTECHNOLOGY; ECOLOGY; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; STRAMENOPILES; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 85020425440     PISSN: 13601385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2017.05.005     Document Type: Review

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