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Science 5 November 1965:
Vol. 150. no. 3697, pp. 771 - 773
DOI: 10.1126/science.150.3697.771
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Absence or Singular Specificity of Carotenoids in Some Lower Fishes

Denis L. Fox 1 and George F. Crozier 1

1 Department of Marine Biology, Scripps Institution of Ocednography, La Jolla, California

No colored carotenoids were recovered from the scales or liver of the coelacanth, Latimeria chalumnae, or from skin, immature eggs, or liver of the Pacific hagfish, Eptatretus stoutii. Zeaxanthin, present as esters in the skin and largely unesterified in the liver, was the only carotenoid identified in the thornback ray, Platyrhinoidis triseriata, and in the horned shark, Heterodontus francisci, whereas the skin of the Pacific mako shark, Isurus glaucus, yielded no carotenoids.


THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Lipids of the Living Coelacanth, Latimeria chalumnae.
J. C. Nevenzel, W. Rodegker, J. F. Mead, and M. S. Gordon (1966)
Science 152, 1753-1755
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