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Science 13 March 1970:
Vol. 167. no. 3924, pp. 1510 - 1511
DOI: 10.1126/science.167.3924.1510
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Wax Esters in Marine Copepods

Richard F. Lee 1, Judd C. Nevenzel 1, and G. -A. Paffenhöfer 1

1 Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla 92037

Two pelagic copepods, Calanus helgolandicus and Gaussia princeps, contained wax esters with 28 to 44 carbon atoms as major lipid constituents. In laboratory cultures of the former species, changes in nutrition (amount or species of diatoms fed) affected both the amount of total lipid and the composition of the wax esters. Thus, the wax esters serve as a reserve energy store in this organism.


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