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Adaptation at the Extremes of Life: Experimental Evolution with the Extremophile Archaeon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius
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Adaptation at the Extremes of Life: Experimental Evolution with the Extremophile Archaeon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius

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Total synthesis of calditol: structural clarification of this typical component of Archaea order Sulfolobales

Yves Blériot1, Edouard Untersteller, Benoît Fritz

  • 1Département de Chimie, Associé au CNRS Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France.

Chemistry (Weinheim an Der Bergstrasse, Germany)
|February 2, 2002
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