Fatty acid composition of six freshwater wild cyanobacterial species

Folia Microbiologica

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 71-75

  Rezanka T ^a   Dor, I ^b   Prell, A ^a   Dembitsky, V M ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROOCOCCUS; CHROOCOCCUS MINUTUS; CYANOBACTERIA; LINCKIA; LYNGBYA; LYNGBYA CEYLANICA; MERISMOPEDIA GLAUCA; NODULARIA; NODULARIA SPHAEROCARPA; NOSTOC; NOSTOC LINCKIA; SYNECHOCOCCUS; SYNECHOCOCCUS AERUGINOSUS;

FATTY ACID; FRESH WATER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CYANOBACTERIUM; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; ISRAEL; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MICROBIOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CYANOBACTERIA; FATTY ACIDS; FRESH WATER; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; ISRAEL;

EID: 0038605364     PISSN: 00155632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02931279     Document Type: Article

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