Sterol compositions of the filamentous nitrogen-fixing terrestrial cyanobacterium Scytonema sp.

Folia Microbiologica

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 357-360

  Rezanka T ^a   Dembitsky, V M ^b   Go, J V ^b   Dor, I ^c   Prell, A ^a   Hanus L ^b  

^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

CYANOBACTERIA; SCYTONEMA; SCYTONEMA SP.;

EID: 0041886414     PISSN: 00155632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02931366     Document Type: Article

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