Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 384572, 11 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/384572
Review Article
Genome-Based Studies of Marine Microorganisms to Maximize the Diversity of Natural Products Discovery for Medical Treatments
School of Life Science and Biotechnology, Dalian University of Technology, Linggong Road 2, Dalian 116024, China
Received 15 January 2011; Revised 15 April 2011; Accepted 3 June 2011
Copyright © 2011 Xin-Qing Zhao. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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