The Identification of Fatty Acids in Bacteria

Methods in Microbiology

Volumn 38, Issue , 2011, Pages 183-196

  Da Costa, Milton S ^a   Albuquerque, Luciana ^b   Nobre, M Fernanda ^a   Wait, Robin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fatty acid methyl esters; Fatty acids; Gas chromatography; Mass spectrometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 83155188474     PISSN: 05809517     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-387730-7.00008-5     Document Type: Chapter

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