the presence of chitin or cellulose in cell walls could be used as a basis for esta-
blishing phylogenetic relationships among groups of fungi, especially among
thePhycomycetes. However, this concept has been criticized byNabel (1939)
who also used microchemical methods, but later supported byFrey (1950)
who used X-ray methods of detection.
Table 1.1Selected studies on chitin published at the beginning of the last century.
Topic References
Distribution Zaitschek (1904),Mirande (1905),Rosenheim (1905),
Rippel (1908),Scholl (1908a,b),von Lippmann (1912),
Biedermann (1914),Bounoure (1919),von Wettstein
(1921),Lacroix (1923),Dous and Ziegenspeck (1926),
Proskuriakow (1926),Takata (1929),Anderson and
Brown (1930),Rammelberg (1931),Norman and
Peterson (1932),Abderhalden and Heyns (1933),Ruser
(1933),Diehl and van Iterson Jr (1935),Diehl (1936), and
Nabel (1939)
Isolation and
preparation
Benecke (1905),Scholl (1908a,b),Bounoure (1911, 1912a,b,
1913),von Wettstein (1921),Dous and Ziegenspeck
(1926), andProskuriakow (1926)
Detection and
determination
Wester (1909, 1910),Komori (1926),Proskuriakow (1926),
K€uhnelt (1928a,b), andHopkins (1929)
Physical evidence
and properties
Holmgren (1902a,b, 1910),Sollas (1907),Irvine (1909),
Brach (1912),Schmiedeberg (1920),Eidmann (1922),
Herzog (1924),Herzog and Gonell (1924),Becking and
Chamberlin (1925),Dous and Ziegenspeck (1926),Gonell
(1926),Knecht and Hibbert (1926),Fr€ankel
(1927),M€uller (1928),Merker (1929a,b),Yonge (1932,
1936),Diehl and van Iterson Jr (1935), andAlexandrov
(1934, 1935)
Molecular structureNeuberg (1902),Fraenkel and Kelly (1903),Benecke (1905),
Biedermann (1907),Brach and von F€urth (1912),Hase
(1916)
Chemistry Steudel (1902),Stolte (1907),von F€urth and Scholl (1907),
Alsberg and Hedblom (1909),Vouk (1915),Morgulis
(1916, 1917), andArmbrecht (1919)
Biochemistry Benecke (1905),Wester (1909),Dous and Ziegenspeck
(1926),Karrer and Hofmann (1929),Needham (1929),
Karrer (1930),Brug (1932), andNorman and Peterson
(1932)
Fiber productionvon Weimarn (1926a,b, 1927)
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