Production of eicosapentaenoic and arachidonic acids by an antarctic bacterium: Response to growth temperature

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 152, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 349-354

  Nichols, David S ^a   Brown, Janelle L ^a,b   Nichols, Peter D ^a,b   McMeekin, Tom A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antarctic; Arachidonic acid; Eicosapentaenoic acid; Psychrophile

Indexed keywords

ARACHIDONIC ACID; ICOSAPENTAENOIC ACID; POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACID;

ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FATTY ACID SYNTHESIS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; LIPID COMPOSITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0030745956     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(97)00224-3     Document Type: Article

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