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Article: The lipid composition of early stage western rock lobster (Panulirus cygnus) phyllosoma: importance of polar lipid and essential fatty acids.
- Article from:
- Journal of Shellfish Research
- Article date:
- April 1, 2004
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ABSTRACT Total lipid, lipid class, and fatty acid analyses were conducted on fed and starved stage I and II phyllosoma of the western rock lobster Panulirus cygnus. In both stages, the decrease in dry mass of starved larvae and increase in dry mass of Artemia-fed larvae were accompanied by a decrease and increase in lipid content, respectively. Lipid accounted for 6.7% of the decrease in dry mass in starved stage I larvae, which increased to 35.0% in stage II larvae. Also, lipid accounted for 6.2% of the increase in dry mass of fed stage I larvae, increasing to 19.2% in stage II larvae. The major lipid classes in all phyllosoma samples were polar lipids (84.1-94.3%) ...