Lipid sac area as a proxy for individual lipid content of arctic calanoid copepods

• Published in: Journal of Plankton Research
• Main Authors: Vogedes, Daniel Ludwig, Varpe, Øystein, Søreide, Janne, Graeve, M, Berge, Jørgen, Falk-Petersen, Stig
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 2010
• Subjects: VDP::Mathematics and natural science: 400::Zoology and botany: 480::Marine biology: 497; VDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Zoologiske og botaniske fag: 480::Marinbiologi: 497; Arctic; Copepods
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10037/4416; https://doi.org/10.1093/plankt/fbq068

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.