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Fatty Acids of Hydrothermal Vent Ridgeia Piscesae and Inshore Bivalves Containing Symbiotic Bacteria

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

J. Gregor Fullarton ,
Paul R. Dando ,
John R. Sargent ,
Alan J. Southwards  and
Eve C. Southward
J. Gregor Fullarton
Affiliation:
NERC Unit of Aquatic Biochemistry, Department of Biological & Molecular Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA.
Paul R. Dando
Affiliation:
Marine Biological Association, Citadel Hill, Plymouth, PL1 2PB.
John R. Sargent
Affiliation:
NERC Unit of Aquatic Biochemistry, Department of Biological & Molecular Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA.
Alan J. Southwards
Affiliation:
Marine Biological Association, Citadel Hill, Plymouth, PL1 2PB. Department of Biology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, V8W 2Y.
Eve C. Southward
Affiliation:
Marine Biological Association, Citadel Hill, Plymouth, PL1 2PB.
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Ridgeia piscesae from a hydrothermal vent and lucinid and thyasirid bivalves from inshore Canadian and UK waters, known to contain sulphur-oxidizing symbiotic bacteria, had lipids rich in 16:0,16:l(n-7) and 18:l(n-7) fatty acids in both bacteria-rich trophosome or gill tissue and in tissues without symbiotic bacteria. The results are consistent with the animals deriving these fatty acids from their sulphur-oxidizing symbionts. Ridgeia piscesae, Lucinoma annulata, Parvilucina tenuisculpta, Lucinoma borealis and Myrtea spinifera also contained substantial amounts of the non-methylene-interrupted dienoic fatty acids 20:2δ5,13 and 22:2δ7,15. It is proposed that these fatty acids are produced by chain elongation and δ5 desaturation in animal tissues of 18:l(n-7) produced by the bacterial symbionts. Thyasira flexuosa did not contain 20:2δ5,13 or 22:2δ7,15 but instead contained 18:l(n-ll) and 20:l(n-13) which were not present in the other species analysed. It is proposed that 18:l(n-ll) and 20:l(n-13) arise from the δ9 desaturation of 20:0 and 22:0, respectively, followed by chain shortening of the mono-unsaturated fatty acid products of δ9 desaturation. It is considered that 20:2δ5,13 and 22:2δ7,15 are formed in the animals in response to a relative excess of 16:0, 16:l(n-7) and 18:l(n-7), accompanied by a relative deficiency of (n-3) and (n-6) polyunsaturated fatty acids. The results are discussed in relation to the lipid nutrition of marine invertebrates containing bacterial symbionts.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 75 , Issue 2 , May 1995 , pp. 455 - 468
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1995

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