Lipids of Three Highly Migratory Fishes: Euthynnus affinis, Sarda orientalis, and Elagati

Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry

Volumn 63, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 2028-2030

  Saito, Hiroaki ^a   Yamashiro, Rieko ^b   Ishihara, Kenji ^a   Xue, Changhu ^c  

^a FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

^b Okinawa Industrial Technology Center   (Japan)

^c OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Chemoecology; Docosahexaenoic acid; Highly migratory fish; Marine grazing food chain; N 3 polyunsaturated fatty acid

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001092017     PISSN: 09168451     EISSN: 13476947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1271/bbb.63.2028     Document Type: Article

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