Phospholipids of marine invertebrates

✍ Scribed by V.E. Vaskovsky; E.Y. Kostetsky

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1969
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 166 KB
• Volume: 3
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0009-3084
• DOI: 10.1016/0009-3084(69)90034-6

✦ Synopsis

The study of marine lipids is an important field of the lipid chemistry. However, the major part of information concerns the depot lipids of fish. 1) Although studies on the comparative aspects of phospholipid distribution of various marine animals have been carried out, z-4) data on the phospholipids of marine invertebrates are insufficient.

Recently some new lipids were discovered in marine invertebrates. 5 7)

In the present paper we report the quantitative and qualitative phospholipid composition of all the main phyla of the marine animals.

No simple correlation was found between the phospholipid composition and taxonomic system of marine animals. Unusual phospholipids were shown in a great number of invertebrates.