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Vitamin A and Carotenoids in Certain Invertebrates VII. Crustacea: Copepoda

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

L. R. Fisher ,
S. K. Kon  and
S. Y. Thompson
L. R. Fisher
Affiliation:
Unit for Biochemical Research bearing on Fisheries' Problems at the National Institute for Research in Dairying, Shinfield, near Reading Grant-aided by the Development Fund.
S. K. Kon
Affiliation:
Unit for Biochemical Research bearing on Fisheries' Problems at the National Institute for Research in Dairying, Shinfield, near Reading Grant-aided by the Development Fund.
S. Y. Thompson
Affiliation:
Unit for Biochemical Research bearing on Fisheries' Problems at the National Institute for Research in Dairying, Shinfield, near Reading Grant-aided by the Development Fund.
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Summary

Total fat, carotenoids, and vitamin A were determined physicochemically in sixty-nine species and fifteen generic groups of pelagic marine copepods.

Vitamin A was definitely present in Euchirella curticauda and Gaetanus kruppi and possibly so in Gaetanus pileatus and in a sample of Gaetanus spp. No vitamin A activity for vitamin A-depleted rats was found in fractions from a lipid extract of 1854 g of Calanus finmarchicus.

The significance of these findings is considered in relation to the high vitamin A reserves in many fish preying upon pelagic copepods.

Type
Research Article
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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 44 , Issue 3 , October 1964 , pp. 685 - 692
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1964

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