Isolation and characterization of chitin from bumblebee (Bombus terrestris)

International Journal of Biological Macromolecules

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 237-241

  Majtán, Juraj ^a   Bíliková, Katarína ^a   Markovič, Oskar ^a   Gróf, Ján ^b   Kogan, Grigorij ^c   Šimúth, Jozef ^a  

^a Institute of Molecular Biology Slovak Academy of Sciences   (Slovakia)

^b sro   (Slovakia)

^c INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Bumblebee; Chitin; Microscopy; Shrimp; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

CHITIN;

ACETYLATION; ARTICLE; BUMBLEBEE; CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CRUSTACEA; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; POLARIZATION; SHRIMP; SOLID STATE; SPECTROSCOPY; SPECTRUM;

BOMBUS TERRESTRIS; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); HEXAPODA;

EID: 33846876514     PISSN: 01418130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2006.07.010     Document Type: Article

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