Lipid sac area as a proxy for individual lipid content of arctic calanoid copepods
We present an accurate, fast, simple and non-destructive photographic method to estimate wax ester and lipid content in single individuals of the calanoid copepod genus Calanus and test this method against gas-chromatographic lipid measurements.
Published in: | Journal of Plankton Research |
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Main Authors: | , , , , , |
Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2010
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Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10037/4416 https://doi.org/10.1093/plankt/fbq068 |
Summary: | We present an accurate, fast, simple and non-destructive photographic method to estimate wax ester and lipid content in single individuals of the calanoid copepod genus Calanus and test this method against gas-chromatographic lipid measurements. |
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