Skeletal lipid depletion in spawning salmon

• Published in: Lipids
• Main Authors: Phleger, C. F., Laub, R. J., Benson, A. A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1989
• Subjects: Cell Biology; Organic Chemistry; Biochemistry; Pacific; Sockeye; Keta; Oncorhynchus gorbuscha; Pink salmon
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02535164; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1007/BF02535164

Abstract Skeletal tissues in Pacific salmon are composed of significant amounts of lipid (which serves as an energy supply), that is then depleted during migration and freshwater spawning. The vertebral centra and neurocrania of ocean prespawning pink salmon Oncorhynchus gorbuscha , although compose...