Probable loss of chlorophyll‐derived pigments during passage through the gut of zooplankton, and some of the consequences
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- 1 July 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Limnology and Oceanography
- Vol. 31 (4), 878-886
- https://doi.org/10.4319/lo.1986.31.4.0878
Abstract
By use of biogenic silica as an inert marker, it is shown that chlorophyll a and its derivatives can be destroyed or absorbed during passage through the gut of a herbivorous copepod. This observation is contradictory to the hypothesis that chlorophyll a is converted to pheophorbide a with 100% molar efficiency. The currently used equations for measuring chlorophyll and pheopigment by fluorescence cannot be used to give concentration of pheopigment.This publication has 13 references indexed in Scilit:
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