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The biochemical composition of Lepas anatifera (L.) cement (Crustacea: Cirripedia)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

G. Walkera  and
A. Youngson
G. Walkera
Affiliation:
NERC Unit of Marine Invertebrate Biology, Marine Science Laboratories, Menai Bridge, Anglesey, U.K.
A. Youngson*
Affiliation:
NERC Unit of Marine Invertebrate Biology, Marine Science Laboratories, Menai Bridge, Anglesey, U.K.
*
*NERC Institute of Marine Biochemistry, St Fittick's Road, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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In an earlier study of the biochemical composition of barnacle cement, Walker (1972) found that the cements of two sessile barnacles, Balanus hameri and B. crenatus contained small amounts of lipid (< 1% of total dry wt.) and carbohydrate (♎ 2% of total dry wt.) but were mainly composed of protein ( > 85 % ° of total dry wt.). Lindner & Dooley (1973) similarly found that a large proportion of B. crenatus cement was protein (80%), but Cook (1970) found only 70% protein, lipid (27.4%) being the other major constituent. There is therefore general agreement that barnacle cement is mainly a proteinaceous secretion, but controversy still exists over the amount of lipid present.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 55 , Issue 3 , August 1975 , pp. 703 - 707
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1975

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