Carotenoid Composition in the Exoskeleton of Commercial Black Tiger Prawns

Fisheries science

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 1994, Pages 213-215

  Okada, Shigeru ^a   Nur E Borhan, Shah Amran ^a   Yamaguchi, Katsumi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

astaxanthin; black tiger prawn; carotenoid; exoskeleton

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008062073     PISSN: 09199268     EISSN: 14442906     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2331/fishsci.60.213     Document Type: Article

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