Browsing by Author "Amemiya, Chris T."

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Characterization of tongue worm (Pentastomida) chitin supports α- rather than β-chitin

Greven, Hartmut; Kaya, Murat; Junker, Kerstin; Akyüz, Lalehan; Amemiya, Chris T. (Elsevier GmbH, 2019)

The higher order relationships of the Pentastomida have historically been tenuous. In one early and influential study, analysis of extracted chitin implicated that pentastomids possess β-chitin, a paradoxical finding given ...
On chemistry of γ-chitin

Kaya, Murat; Mujtaba, Muhammad; Ehrlich, Hermann; Salaberria, Asier; Baran, Talat; Amemiya, Chris T.; Galli, Roberta; Akyüz, Lalehan (ELSEVIER SCI, 2017)

The biological material, chitin, is present in nature in three allomorphic forms: alpha, beta and gamma. Whereas most studies have dealt with alpha- and beta-chitin, only few investigations have focused on gamma-chitin, ...