Sterols of the phylum Zygomycota: Phylogenetic implications

Lipids

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1309-1316

  Weete, J D ^a,b   Gandhi, S R ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; DESMOSTEROL; ERGOSTEROL; STEROL;

CONFERENCE PAPER; GAS LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LIPID COMPOSITION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; STEROL ANALYSIS; ZYGOMYCETES;

BASIDIOBOLUS; CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; CONIDIOBOLUS; DELACROIXIA; DELACROIXIA CORONATUS; DIMARGARITALES; ENTOMOPHTHORA; ENTOMOPHTHORALES; KICKXELLALES; MORTIERELLACEAE; MUCORALES; ZOOPAGALES; ZYGOMYCOTA;

EID: 0031461227     PISSN: 00244201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11745-006-0169-y     Document Type: Conference Paper

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