Secondary metabolites their function and evolution.

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Corporate Authors: Symposium on Secondary Metabolites: Their Function and Evaluation Ciba Foundation; Ciba Foundation
Group Author: Chadwick, Derek; Whelan, Julie
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Literature type: Electronic eBook
Language: English
Series: Ciba Foundation symposium ; 171
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Online Access: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9780470514344
Item Description: Proceedings of the Symposium on Secondary Metabolites: Their Function and Evaluation, held at Ciba Foundation, Feb. 18-20, 1992.
"A Wiley-Interscience publication."
Editors: Derek J. Chadwick and Julie Whelan.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (ix, 318 p.) : ill.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780470514351 (electronic bk.)
0470514353 (electronic bk.)
9780470514344
0470514345
Index Number: QH521
CLC: Q591
Contents: Microbial secondary metabolism: a new theoretical frontier for academia, a new opportunity for industry / A.L. Demain -- Evolution of secondary metabolite production: potential roles for antibiotics as prebiotic effectors of catalytic RNA reactions / J. Davies ... [et al.] -- Why are secondary metabolites synthesized? Sophistication in the inhibition of cell wall biosynthesis by vancomycin group antibiotics / D.H. Williams and R.A. Maplestone -- Origins of secondary metabolism / T. Cavalier-Smith -- Genes for polyketide secondary metabolic pathways in microorganisms and plants / D.A. Hopwood