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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

A. J. Southward  and
D. R. Dixon
A. J. Southward
Affiliation:
The Laboratory, Marine Biological Association, Citadel Hill, Plymouth
D. R. Dixon
Affiliation:
The Laboratory, Marine Biological Association, Citadel Hill, Plymouth
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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.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 60 , Issue 1 , February 1980 , pp. 171 - 174
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1980

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