Nutrient, fatty acid, amino acid and mineral analysis of natural prey of the Hawaiian monk seal, Monachus schauinslandi

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 137-146

  Goodman Lowe, G D ^a   Carpenter, J R ^b   Atkinson, S ^a   Ako, H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Amino acid; Energy; Fatty acid; Hawaiian monk seal; Minerals; Prey composition; Protein; Proximate analysis

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ESSENTIAL AMINO ACID; FATTY ACID; MINERAL;

ARTICLE; CEPHALOPOD; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CRUSTACEA; DIET; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; OCTOPUS; SEAL; TELEOST;

BODIANUS BILULUNATUS; GYMNOTHORAX EUROSTUS; GYMNOTHORAX UNDULATUS; OCTOPUS CYANEA; PANULIRUS MARGINATUS;

EID: 0033030751     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1095-6433(99)00038-0     Document Type: Article

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