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Fatty acid relationship in an aquatic food chain
Author(s) -
Jezyk Peter F.,
Penicnak A. John
Publication year - 1966
Publication title -
lipids
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.601
H-Index - 120
eISSN - 1558-9307
pISSN - 0024-4201
DOI - 10.1007/bf02532547
Subject(s) - brine shrimp , algae , artemia salina , fatty acid , biology , shrimp , food science , polyunsaturated fatty acid , phospholipid , biochemistry , chemistry , botany , fishery , toxicity , membrane , organic chemistry
The relationships amongst the fatty acids of the lipids from members of a model aquatic food chain were examined. The basic pattern of the fatty acids in the members, algae‐brine shrimp‐hydra, originated in the phytoplankton. Fatty acids in the neutral lipids of adult brine shrimp, Artemia salina , closely resembled dietary, or algal, fatty acids, whereas the phospholipid acids differed considerably from those in the algae. Fatty acids from the total lipids of Hydra pseudoligactis fed brine shimp nauplii also resembled the dietary acids, but more C 20 polyunsaturates and fewer C 18 unsaturated acids were present in those raised at 10C than were found at 20C.