High prevalence of polyunsaturated-fatty-acid producing bacteria in arctic invertebrates

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 151, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 95-101

  Jøstensen, Jens Petter ^a   Landfald, Bjarne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Arctic; Docosahexaenoic acid; Eicosapentaenoic acid; Marine bacteria; Polyunsaturated fatty acids

Indexed keywords

POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACID;

ANIMAL DISEASE; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; FATTY ACID SYNTHESIS; INVERTEBRATE; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030740906     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(97)00148-1     Document Type: Article

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