Isoprenoid fatty acids from marine sponges. Are sponges selective?
- 1 October 1987
- Vol. 22 (10), 767-769
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02533980
Abstract
The burrowing spongesAnthosigmella varians andSpheciospongia vesparium were found to be rich in the isoprenoid phospholipid fatty acid 4,8,12-trimethyltridecanoic (5.2% and 23%, respectively, of the total fatty acid composition), while the burrowing spongeChondrilla nucula and the demospongeAgelas dispar contained the acid 3,7,11,15-tetramethylhexadecanoic (13.8% and 8.6%, respectively, of the total phospholipid fatty acid composition). No other isoprenoid fatty acid was found, and the two acids described in this work did not occur concomitantly in the same sponge.This publication has 15 references indexed in Scilit:
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