Effect of season and artificial diet on amino acids and nucleic acids in gonads of green sea urchin Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 133, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 389-398

  Liyana Pathirana, Chandrika ^a   Shahidi, Fereidoon ^a   Whittick, Alan ^a   Hooper, Robert ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Deoxyribonucleic acid; Dietary factors; Free amino acids; Green sea urchin gonads; Ribonucleic acid; Seasonal variations; Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis; Total amino acids

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; DNA; GLYCINE; PROTEIN; RNA; TYROSINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL DIET; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; DNA CONTENT; FEEDING; GONAD; GROWTH RATE; HARVESTING; MASS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONTENT; RNA ANALYSIS; SEA URCHIN; SEASONAL VARIATION;

ECHINOIDEA; LYTECHINUS VARIEGATUS; STRONGYLOCENTROTUS; STRONGYLOCENTROTUS DROEBACHIENSIS;

EID: 0036801066     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1095-6433(02)00178-2     Document Type: Article

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