ecometabolomics

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noun

The branch of metabolomics that studies the ecological effects on the metabolites of an organism.

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Meanings

nounecometabolomics (uncountable)
  1. uncountablebiochemistryThe branch of metabolomics that studies the ecological effects on the metabolites of an organism.

    Similar to proteomics, the majority of ecometabolomics studies have focused on demonstrating that distinct metabolic profiles are observed for organisms exposed to different types of chemical stressors either in the laboratory or in the field [ 40 ].

    2015 May 29, Hyo Jeong Kim et al., “Ecotoxicogenomic Approaches for Understanding Molecular Mechanisms of Environmental Chemical Toxicity Using Aquatic Invertebrate, Daphnia Model Organism”, in International Journal of Molecular Sciences, volume 16, →DOI

Origin

From eco- + metabolomics.

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