ecometabolomics
English
editEtymology
editFrom eco- + metabolomics.
Noun
editecometabolomics (uncountable)
- (biochemistry) The branch of metabolomics that studies the ecological effects on the metabolites of an organism.
- 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[1], volume 16, :
- 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 ].