The metabolism of wax esters and other lipids by the marine copepod, Calanus helgolandicus
The polyunsaturated wax esters which occur in an oil droplet in Calanus helgolandicus apparently serve as a short term reserve metabolic fuel. The lipids of the copepods were labeled by feeding them 14C-labeled diatoms, Skeletonema costatum, after which starvation and turnover experiments were carri...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
1970-05-01
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| Series: | Journal of Lipid Research |
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| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002222752042989X |