Mono-, di- and trimethyl-branched alkanes in cultures of the filamentous cyanobacterium Calothrix scopulorum

Organic Geochemistry

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1367-1379

  Köster, Jürgen ^a   Volkman, John K ^b,c   Rullkötter, Jürgen ^a   Scholz Böttcher, Barbara M ^a   Rethmeier, Jörg ^d   Fischer, Ulrich ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg   (Germany)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Branched hydrocarbons; Calothrix; Cyanobacteria; Dimethylalkanes; Fatty acids; Mass spectrometry; Methylation; Monomethylalkanes; Retention index; Trimethylalkanes

Indexed keywords

CYANOBACTERIA; METHYLATION;

ALKANE DERIVATIVE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOINDICATOR; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ISOMERIZATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; ORGANIC MATTER; SEDIMENT;

ALGAE; BIOMARKERS; CARBON; FATTY ACIDS; ISOMERS; LIPIDS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PARAFFINS;

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY;

CYANOBACTERIUM; LIPID; ORGANIC MATTER; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY;

EID: 0040521456     PISSN: 01466380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0146-6380(99)00110-2     Document Type: Article

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