Detection and Characterization of Mycolic Acids and Their Use in Taxonomy and Classification

Methods in Microbiology

Volumn 38, Issue , 2011, Pages 207-237

  Yassin, Atteyet Alla Fetouh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chemotaxonomy; GC; GC MS; HPLC; Methanolysis; Mycolic acid pattern; Mycolic acids; One dimensional TLC; Pyrolysis; TLC; Two dimensional TLC

Indexed keywords

EID: 83155188469     PISSN: 05809517     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-387730-7.00010-3     Document Type: Chapter

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