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Science 24 June 1966:
Vol. 152. no. 3730, pp. 1753 - 1755
DOI: 10.1126/science.152.3730.1753
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Lipids of the Living Coelacanth, Latimeria chalumnae

Judd C. Nevenzel 1, Waldtraut Rodegker 1, James F. Mead 1, and Malcolm S. Gordon 2

1 Department of Biophysics and Nuclear Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles
2 Department of Zoology, University of California, Los Angeles

The muscle of Latimeria chalumnae contains 30 to 71 percent (dry weight) of lipid deposited extracellularly. Wax esters constituted 90 percent or more of the lipids from muscle and fat storage tissues. These esters, by gaschromatographic analysis, consisted of C30 to C40 homologs with one or two double bonds.


THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Urea and Its Formation in Coelacanth Liver.
G. W. Brown Jr. and S. G. Brown (1967)
Science 155, 570-573
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