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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| Format: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Language: | English |
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Uppsala universitet, Limnologi
2010
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| Online Access: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-131128 http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:isbn:978-91-554-7902-2 |