Wax Esters in Marine Copepods

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 13 Mar 1970 English Publisher:American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)Journal:Science, volume 167, pages 1,510-1,511 (issn: 0036-8075, eissn: 1095-9203,

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Authors: R F, Lee; J C, Nevenzel; G A, Paffenhöfer;

doi: 10.1126/science.167.3924.1510

pmid: 17750349

Wax Esters in Marine Copepods

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Two pelagic copepods, Calanus helgolandicus and Gaussia princeps , contained wax esters with 28 to 44 carbon atoms as major lipid constituents. In laboratory cultures of the former species, changes in nutrition (amount or species of diatoms fed) affected both the amount of total lipid and the composition of the wax esters. Thus, the wax esters serve as a reserve energy store in this organism.

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