Chemotaxonomy of heterocystous cyanobacteria using FAME profiling as species markers

Protoplasma

Volumn 249, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 651-661

  Shukla, Ekta ^a   Singh, Satya Shila ^a,b   Singh, Prashant ^a   Mishra, Arun Kumar ^a  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b GURU GHASIDAS UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Cyanobacteria; Euclidean distance; FAME; Fatty acids; Linolenic acid

Indexed keywords

FATTY ACID; UNSATURATED FATTY ACID;

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CYANOBACTERIUM; CYTOLOGY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY;

CHROMATOGRAPHY, GAS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CYANOBACTERIA; FATTY ACIDS; FATTY ACIDS, UNSATURATED; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY;

ANABAENA; ANABAENA SP.; CYANOBACTERIA; CYLINDROSPERMUM; SCYTONEMA BOHNERII;

EID: 84862680715     PISSN: 0033183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00709-011-0303-4     Document Type: Article

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