Characterization of Lipids in Myctophid Fish in the Subarctic and Tropical Pacific Ocean

Fisheries Science

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 447-453

  Seo, Hwan Sook ^a   Endo, Yasushi ^a   Fujimoto, Kenshiro ^a   Watanabe, Hikaru ^b   Kawaguchi, Kouichi ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Lipid; Myctophid fish; Vertical migration; Wax ester

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001473072     PISSN: 09199268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2331/fishsci.62.447     Document Type: Article

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