The Central Carbon and Energy Metabolism of Marine Diatoms

Diatoms are heterokont algae derived from a secondary symbiotic event in which a eukaryotic host cell acquired an eukaryotic red alga as plastid. The multiple endosymbiosis and horizontal gene transfer processes provide diatoms unusual opportunities for gene mixing to establish distinctive biosynthe...

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Main Authors: Adriano Nunes-Nesi, Alisdair R. Fernie, Toshihiro Obata
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2013-05-01
Series:Metabolites
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2218-1989/3/2/325