Artigo Acesso aberto Revisado por pares

Chemosystematics and coevolution

1977; International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; Volume: 49; Issue: 9 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1351/pac197749091403

ISSN

1365-3075

Autores

Jeffrey B. Harborne,

Tópico(s)

Analytical Chemistry and Chromatography

Resumo

The utility of secondary chamical characters employed in plant systematics is reconsidered in the light of their ecological importance in plant-animal interactions.The taxonomic significance of.biochemicalcharacters representing adaptions to environmental stress is also considered.Taxonomie aspects of the increasing number of secondary compounds found in animals are briefly discussed.Methods of applying chemical data to systems of biological classification are reviewed.

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