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In the sense employed here, chemotaxonomy is taken to refer to the taxonomic use of information about principally small molecules that are generally produced by the actions of enzymes, and it is not taken to include information about proteins and nucleic acids.
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Taxonomists have great experience in distinguishing what characters may or may not be significant in morphology and anatomy, but significance is not so obvious to them in chemistry.
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Quicke, D.L.J. (1993). Chemotaxonomy and Related Topics. In: Principles and Techniques of Contemporary Taxonomy. Experimental and Clinical Neuroscience. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2134-7_8
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