A Note on the Free Amino Acids in Some Small Species of Pogonophora

Abstract
Previous studies on the significance of dissolved organic compounds in the nutrition of the smaller species of the phylum Pogonophora (Little & Gupta, 1968, 1969; Southward & Southward, 1968, 1970) were handicapped by lack of information about the levels of free amino acids in the tissues. In this brief note we give preliminary results for four species, using a modification of the technique described by Clark (1964, 1968, 1973) to estimate the amino acids in extracts of the whole body.