Geochemical evolution of amino acids in dentine of Pleistocene bears

Chirality

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 517-521

  De Torres, Trinidad ^a   Ortiz, José E ^a   García, María J ^a   Llamas, Juan F ^a   Canoira, Laureano ^a   De La Morena, Miguel A García ^a   Juliá, Ramón ^b  

^a Dpto de Automatic Ingenieria Electronica e Informatics Industrial DISAM   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES JAUME ALMERA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Age calculation; Aspartic acid racemization; Kinetics; Pleistocene; Ursids

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ASPARTIC ACID; COLLAGEN; GLUTAMIC ACID; NITROGEN; WATER;

ATMOSPHERE; BEAR; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; CONFERENCE PAPER; DENTIN; EVOLUTION; HEATING; HYDROLYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGE DETERMINATION BY TEETH; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ASPARTIC ACID; DENTIN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FOSSILS; GLUTAMIC ACID; KINETICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, CHEMICAL; STEREOISOMERISM; URSIDAE;

EID: 0034899825     PISSN: 08990042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/chir.1070     Document Type: Conference Paper

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