1. Fatty Acids of Marine Algae from the Pacific Coast of North California
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Tamara V. Titlyanova, V. E. Vaskovsky, and Svetlana V. Khotimchenko
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chemistry.chemical_classification ,biology ,Ecology ,Fatty acid ,Plant Science ,Aquatic Science ,biology.organism_classification ,Brown algae ,chemistry ,Habitat ,Algae ,Botany ,Green algae ,Fatty acid composition ,Bay ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics ,Polyunsaturated fatty acid - Abstract
Nineteen species of marine macrophytic algae collected in Bodega Bay, California were investigated for their fatty acid composition. Red, brown and green algae have distinguishing fatty acid profiles, which have a chemotaxonomic significance for seaweeds. This does not depend on the geographical location of the algae. Algal habitat conditions affect quantitative characteristics of the fatty acids. The content of polyunsaturated fatty acids in algae from California was found to be noticeably higher for most of the algal species examined in comparison with the same or related species from other regions.
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- 2002
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