study on the Antarctic krill, Euphausia superba

• Main Authors: Dorothea Stübing, Wilhelm Hagen, Katrin Schmidt
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Antarctic; Bellingshausen Sea; Lazarev; Lazarev Sea; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctic Krill; Euphausia superba; ice algae
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.419.7560; http://www.aslo.org/lo/toc/vol_48/issue_4/1685.pdf

The application of marker fatty acids to trace the feeding habits of Euphausia superba (krill) has produced contradictory results. We examined the effects of various diets on the fatty acid composition of larval, juvenile, and adult E. superba collected in April 1999 in the southwest Lazarev Sea and...