Ratios of carbon isotopes in microbial lipids as an indicator of substrate usage

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 4202-4209

  Abraham, Wolf Rainer ^a   Hesse, Christian ^a   Pelz, Oliver ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON 13; FATTY ACID; GLUCOSE; GLYCEROL; GLYCOLIPID; LACTOSE; MANNOSE; MYRISTIC ACID; PALMITIC ACID; PHOSPHOLIPID; STEARIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BURKHOLDERIA; CALIBRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; FATTY ACID METABOLISM; FUNGUS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; LIPID ANALYSIS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; ZYGOMYCETES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BURKHOLDERIA; BURKHOLDERIA GLADIOLI; FUNGI; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; ZYGOMYCETES; ZYGOMYCOTINA;

EID: 0031734570     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.11.4202-4209.1998     Document Type: Article

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