Molecular Evolution of Fern Squalene Cyc
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Junichi Shinozakiβ; Masaaki Shibuyaβ; Yukiko Takahata; Kazuo Masuda; Yutaka Ebiz
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Article
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2010
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract __Triterpenes, a diverse group of natural products comprising six isoprene units, are distributed across various organisms from bacteria to higher plants. Ferns are sporophytes that produce triterpenes and are lower on the evolutionary scale than higher plants. Among ferns that produce