Bacterial Degradation and Use of Chitin in Aquatic Habitats

Chitin belongs to the most abundant biopolymers on earth where it has an important role as a structural element in crustaceans, insects, fungi and some phytoplankton. Missing evidence for long-term accumulation of chitin in nature implies fast turnover and as chitin is composed of aminosugar subunit...

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Main Author: Beier, Sara
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Uppsala universitet, Limnologi 2010
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Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-131128
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