Polymer networks produced by marine diatoms in the northern Adriatic Sea

Marine Drugs

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 666-679

  Svetličić, Vesna ^a   Žutić, Vera ^a   Radić, Tea Mišić ^a   Pletikapić, Galja ^a   Zimmermann, Amela Hozić ^a   Urbani, Ranieri ^b  

^a RUDER BO KOVI INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Atomic force microscopy; Cylindrotheca closterium; Extracellular polysaccharides; Marine gel network; Northern Adriatic macroaggregates; Self assembly

Indexed keywords

POLYMER; POLYSACCHARIDE;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYLINDROTHECA CLOSTERIUM; DIATOM; GEL; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; SEA;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYLINDROTHECA CLOSTERIUM; NITZSCHIA ALBA;

EID: 79955620749     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16603397     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/md9040666     Document Type: Article

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