Comparison of the lipid properties of captive, healthy wild, and pansteatitis-affected wild Nile crocodiles (Crocodylus niloticus)

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 155, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 64-69

  Osthoff, Gernot ^a   Hugo, Arno ^a   Bouwman, Henk ^b   Buss, Peter ^c   Govender, Danny ^c   Joubert, Chris C ^a   Swarts, Jannie C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE   (South Africa)

^b NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^c SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL PARKS   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Crocodile; Crocodylus; Fat; Lipid; Pansteatitis; Yellow fat disease

Indexed keywords

FATTY ACID; FATTY ACID ESTER; OMEGA 3 FATTY ACID; OMEGA 6 FATTY ACID; POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACID; SATURATED FATTY ACID; UNSATURATED FATTY ACID;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ALLIGATOR; ANIMAL FOOD; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CADAVER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LIPID COMPOSITION; MOISTURE; MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; STEATITIS; TISSUE STRUCTURE; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; CROCODYLIDAE (ALL CROCODILES); CROCODYLUS; CROCODYLUS NILOTICUS;

EID: 71549165144     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2009.09.025     Document Type: Article

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