Diversity of the fatty acids of the Nostoc species and their statistical analysis

Microbiological Research

Volumn 162, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 308-321

  Temina, Marina ^a   Rezankova, Hana ^b   Rezanka, Tomas ^c   Dembitsky, Valery M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS   (Czech Republic)

^c INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^d HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cyanobacteria; Fatty acids; GC MS; Nostoc; Statistic analysis

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; STATISTICAL METHODS; WATER;

CYANOBACTERIAL SPECIES; GENUS NOSTOC; NOSTOC SPECIES; UNSATURATED FATTY ACIDS;

FATTY ACIDS;

CYANOBACTERIUM; FATTY ACID; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CYANOBACTERIA; NOSTOC;

EID: 34748835770     PISSN: 09445013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micres.2006.01.010     Document Type: Article

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