Metabolic innovations towards the human lineage

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>We describe a function-driven approach to the analysis of metabolism which takes into account the phylogenetic origin of biochemical reactions to reveal subtle lineage-specific metabolic innovations, undetectable by more traditional...

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Main Authors: Ouzounis Christos A, Goldovsky Leon, Freilich Shiri, Thornton Janet M
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2008-09-01
Series:BMC Evolutionary Biology
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/8/247