Cover Picture: The Chemical Basis of Fungal Bioluminescence (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 28/2015). Issue 28 (12th June 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Purtov, Konstantin V.; Petushkov, Valentin N.; Baranov, Mikhail S.; Mineev, Konstantin S.; Rodionova, Natalja S.; Kaskova, Zinaida M.; Tsarkova, Aleksandra S.; Petunin, Alexei I.; Bondar, Vladimir S.; Rodicheva, Emma K.; Medvedeva, Svetlana E.; Oba, Yuichi; Oba, Yumiko; Arseniev, Alexander S.; Lukyanov, Sergey; Gitelson, Josef I.; Yampolsky, Ilia V.
• Is Part Of: Angewandte Chemie international edition. Volume 54:Issue 28(2015)
• Page Start: 8001
• Page End: 8001
• Publication Date: 2015-06-12
• Subjects: Chemistry -- Periodicals; 540
• DOI: 10.1002/anie.201505051
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1433-7851

Abstract

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