Fatty-acid synthesis in the echinoderms:Asterias rubens, Echinus esculentusandHolothuria forskali
- 1 June 1968
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
- Vol. 48 (2), 521-533
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315400034640
Abstract
The fatty-acid compositions of tissue lipids ofAsterias rubensL.,Echinus esculentusL. andHolothuria forskaliDelia Chiaje were determined by means of gas-liquid chromatography. Considerable proportions of branched-chain, normal odd-numbered and eicosatetraenoic acids occur in the latter two animals. Tissues of all three animals were incubated with 1−14C-acetate. The relative specific activities of fatty-acid fractions isolated by thin-layer chromatography upon AgNO3-impregnated silica gel G fell in the order: saturates > monoenes — dienes > polyenes. The fatty-acid compositions of the alkoxydiglyceride, triglyceride and phospholipid classes of A. rubens hepatic caecal lipid were also determined.This publication has 20 references indexed in Scilit:
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