The potential of ergosterol as chemotaxonomic marker to differentiate between "Chlorella" species (chlorophyta)

Journal of Phycology

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1296-1300

  Görs, Manuela ^a   Schumann, Rhena ^a   Gustavs, Lydia ^a   Karsten, Ulf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

"Chlorella like" species; Chemotaxonomy; Chlorella vulgaris; Ergosterol; Trebouxiophyceae

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; CHLORELLA (CHLORELLALES); CHLORELLA (PRASIOLALES); CHLORELLA (UNCLASSIFIED CHLOROPHYCEAE); CHLORELLA (UNCLASSIFIED TREBOUXIOPHYCEAE); CHLORELLA VULGARIS; CHLORELLACEAE; CHLOROPHYCEAE; CHLOROPHYTA; COCCOIDEA; TREBOUXIOPHYCEAE;

EID: 78649872596     PISSN: 00223646     EISSN: 15298817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1529-8817.2010.00920.x     Document Type: Note

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