Occurence of high crystalline cellulose in the most primitive tunicate, appendicularian

Progress in Biotechnology

Volumn 18, Issue C, 2001, Pages 121-125

  Kimura, Satoshi ^a   Itoh, Takao ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Appendicularian; Cellulose; electron diffraction; house; tunicate

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957056866     PISSN: 09210423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-0423(01)80063-0     Document Type: Chapter

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