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Vitamin A and carotenoids in certain invertebrates VI. Crustacea: Penaeidea

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

L. R. Fisher ,
S. K. Kon  and
S. Y. Thompson
L. R. Fisher
Affiliation:
Unit for Biochemical Research bearing on Fisheries’ Problemscor1corresp
*
at the National Institute for Research in Dairying, Shinfield, near Reading
S. K. Kon
Affiliation:
Unit for Biochemical Research bearing on Fisheries’ Problemscor1corresp
*
at the National Institute for Research in Dairying, Shinfield, near Reading
S. Y. Thompson
Affiliation:
Unit for Biochemical Research bearing on Fisheries’ Problemscor1corresp
*
at the National Institute for Research in Dairying, Shinfield, near Reading
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Vitamin A and carotenoids were measured in six species of Penaeidae and seven species of Sergestidae.

Vitamin A was present in at least one sample of all species except Gennadas borealis at concentrations mostly of the same order as previously found in other Decapoda, but usually higher in the Sergestidae than in the Penaeidae.

Carotenoids in the Penaeidae included astaxanthin and its esters, carotenes and xanthophylls, but only astaxanthin or its esters with occasional traces of xanthophylls were found in the Sergestidae.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 36 , Issue 3 , November 1957 , pp. 501 - 507
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1957

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