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Determination of Total Lipid and Lipid Classes in Marine Samples
Published on: December 11, 2021
Lipid sac area as a proxy for individual lipid content of arctic calanoid copepods
Daniel Vogedes1, Oystein Varpe, Janne E Søreide
1University Centre in Svalbard , Pb 156, 9171 Longyearbyen , Norway.
Journal of Plankton Research
|September 9, 2010
Abstract:
We present an accurate, fast, simple and non-destructive photographic method to estimate wax ester and lipid content in single individuals of the calanoid copepod genus Calanus and test this method against gas-chromatographic lipid measurements.

