Assimilation and deposition of dietary fatty alcohols in Leach's storm petrel,Oceanodroma leucorhoa

✍ Scribed by Place, Allen R. ;Roby, Daniel D.

• Book ID: 102893798
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1986
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 992 KB
• Volume: 240
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0022-104X
• DOI: 10.1002/jez.1402400203

✦ Synopsis

The diet of Leach's storm petrel (Oceanodroma leucorhoa) chicks has a high lipid content (up to 60% of fresh mass), and, for certain populations, much of the dietary lipids are wax esters (up to 70% of total lipid).