Boron-containing organic pigments from a Jurassic red alga

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 45, 2010, Pages 19374-19378

  Wolkenstein, Klaus ^a   Gross, Jürgen H ^b   Falk, Heinz ^a  

^a JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fossil red algae; Liquid chromatography mass spectrometry; Molecular preservation; Optical activity; Phenolic boric acid esters

Indexed keywords

BORIC ACID; BORON; ESTER; ORGANIC COMPOUND; PIGMENT;

CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COLOR; CONFERENCE PAPER; EXTINCT SPECIES; FOSSIL; GEOLOGICAL TIME; JURASSIC; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RED ALGA;

ALGAE; RHODOPHYTA; SOLENOPORA;

EID: 78650621919     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1007973107     Document Type: Article

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