Copepod Fecal Pellets as a Source of Dihydrophytol in Marine Sediments
- 15 June 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 224 (4654) , 1235-1237
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.224.4654.1235
Abstract
Dihydrophytol(3,7,11,15-tetramethylhexadecanol) was identified in the nonsaponified lipid fraction of fecal pellets from the copepod Calanus helgolandicus fed in the laboratory on a unialgal diet. Direct deposition in the fecal pellets of certain zooplankton species may explain the presence of dihydrophytol in marine sediments. Microbial reduction of phytol in sediment cores does not account for the origin of this compound in all sedimentary environments.This publication has 15 references indexed in Scilit:
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