Diet-switching experiments show rapid accumulation and preferential retention of highly unsaturated fatty acids in Daphnia

Oikos

Volumn 120, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1674-1682

  Taipale, Sami J ^a   Kainz, Martin J ^b   Brett, Michael T ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

^b DANUBE UNIVERSITY KREMS   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOMARKER; CARBON ISOTOPE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CRUSTACEAN; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; DIET; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FATTY ACID; FISHERY PRODUCTION; PHOSPHOLIPID; TIMESCALE; TROPHIC LEVEL; ZOOPLANKTON;

ARA; COPEPODA; CRYPTOMONAS; DAPHNIA; DAPHNIA MAGNA; SCENEDESMUS;

EID: 80055076399     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2011.19415.x     Document Type: Article

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