Further Studies of the Carotenoids of Two Pacific Marine Fishes, Fundulus Parvipinnis and Hypsypops Rubicunda, and of a Marine Annelid, Thoracophelia Sp
- 1 January 1936
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Vol. 22 (1) , 50-54
- https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.22.1.50
Abstract
The annelid seems to possess exclusively carotene(s); the garibaldi, Hypsypops rubicunda, yields a single xanthophyll; when fed upon either, the Pacific killifish, Fundulus parvipinnis, stores only a xanthophyll similar to or perhaps identical with the xanthophyll of the garibaldi. The carotene in Thoracophelia is preponderantly [alpha]-carotene; the xanthophyll of the 2 kinds of fish is almost or quite completely es-terified with organic acids in situ and is either taraxanthin, or an isomer of this carotenoid.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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