Application of liposome and stable isotope tracer techniques to study polyunsaturated fatty acid biosynthesis in marine zooplankton
We investigated the ability of four species of marine zooplankton to synthesise polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) during pulse-chase tracer experiments. Liposomes containing a deuterium labelled precursor fatty acid, D 5 -18:3(n-3), were fed to female Calanus finmarchicus, Calanoides acutus, Dropa...
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fthighwire:oai:open-archive.highwire.org:plankt:fbm025v1 2023-05-15T15:47:59+02:00 Application of liposome and stable isotope tracer techniques to study polyunsaturated fatty acid biosynthesis in marine zooplankton Bell, Michael V Dick, James R Anderson, Thomas R Pond, David W 2007-03-22 06:07:45.0 text/html http://plankt.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/fbm025v1 https://doi.org/10.1093/plankt/fbm025 en eng Oxford University Press http://plankt.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/fbm025v1 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/plankt/fbm025 Copyright (C) 2007, Oxford University Press Article TEXT 2007 fthighwire https://doi.org/10.1093/plankt/fbm025 2016-11-16T18:35:37Z We investigated the ability of four species of marine zooplankton to synthesise polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) during pulse-chase tracer experiments. Liposomes containing a deuterium labelled precursor fatty acid, D 5 -18:3(n-3), were fed to female Calanus finmarchicus, Calanoides acutus, Dropanopus forcipatus and calyptopus larvae of Euphausia superba during ship-board experiments. Although all species of zooplankton readily ingested the liposomes and incorporated the D 5 -18:3(n-3) tracer into their somatic lipid pool, only negligible products of elongation and desaturation; D 5 -18:4(n-3), D 5 -20:5(n-3) and D 5 -22:6(n-3) were detected after 96 hour incubations. We conclude that the four species of marine zooplankton examined here are unable to synthesis PUFA at ecologically significant rates and certainly not in amounts sufficient to support growth and reproductive processes i.e. not in amounts sufficient to support growth and reproductive processes, under the conditions of this experiment Text Calanus finmarchicus Euphausia superba HighWire Press (Stanford University) Journal of Plankton Research 29 5 417 422 |
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We investigated the ability of four species of marine zooplankton to synthesise polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) during pulse-chase tracer experiments. Liposomes containing a deuterium labelled precursor fatty acid, D 5 -18:3(n-3), were fed to female Calanus finmarchicus, Calanoides acutus, Dropanopus forcipatus and calyptopus larvae of Euphausia superba during ship-board experiments. Although all species of zooplankton readily ingested the liposomes and incorporated the D 5 -18:3(n-3) tracer into their somatic lipid pool, only negligible products of elongation and desaturation; D 5 -18:4(n-3), D 5 -20:5(n-3) and D 5 -22:6(n-3) were detected after 96 hour incubations. We conclude that the four species of marine zooplankton examined here are unable to synthesis PUFA at ecologically significant rates and certainly not in amounts sufficient to support growth and reproductive processes i.e. not in amounts sufficient to support growth and reproductive processes, under the conditions of this experiment |
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Application of liposome and stable isotope tracer techniques to study polyunsaturated fatty acid biosynthesis in marine zooplankton |
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Application of liposome and stable isotope tracer techniques to study polyunsaturated fatty acid biosynthesis in marine zooplankton |
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Application of liposome and stable isotope tracer techniques to study polyunsaturated fatty acid biosynthesis in marine zooplankton |
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Application of liposome and stable isotope tracer techniques to study polyunsaturated fatty acid biosynthesis in marine zooplankton |
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Application of liposome and stable isotope tracer techniques to study polyunsaturated fatty acid biosynthesis in marine zooplankton |
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application of liposome and stable isotope tracer techniques to study polyunsaturated fatty acid biosynthesis in marine zooplankton |
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