Elemental and fatty acid composition of snow algae in Arctic habitats

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 3, Issue OCT, 2012, Pages

  Spijkerman, Elly ^a   Wacker, Alexander ^a   Weithoff, Guntram ^a   Leya, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arctic snow algal bloom; Cellular C:N:P ratio; Ecology; Extremophiles; Lipids; Nutrients; Psychrophilic; Spitsbergen

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875821085     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2012.00380     Document Type: Article

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