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The effect of starvation on the biochemical composition of the rotifer Brachionus plicatilis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

A.V. Frolov  and
S.L. Pankov
A.V. Frolov
Affiliation:
Mariculture Laboratory, All-Union Research Institute of Marine Fishery and Oceanography (VNIRO), 17-A V. Krasnoselskaya, Moscow 107140, Russia
S.L. Pankov
Affiliation:
Mariculture Laboratory, All-Union Research Institute of Marine Fishery and Oceanography (VNIRO), 17-A V. Krasnoselskaya, Moscow 107140, Russia
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Abstract

Alterations of the biochemical composition and survival of the rotifer Brachionus plicatilis have been investigated. During starvation the proportion of total protein increased from 45·3 to 62·7% while that of total lipid, carbohydrate and glycogen decreased from 20·1 to 6·9%, from 21·2 to 14·1% and from 17·3 to 4·9% dry weight, respectively. The proportion of polar lipids and free sterols in total lipids increased, from 8·3 to 32·0% and from 29·2 to 58·3% whereas triacylglycerol decreased from 54·7 to 4·2% dry weight. The most abrupt alteration in these fractions took place in the interval from 24 to 48 h. The proportion of monoacylglycerols, diacylglycerols, free fatty acids and esters of waxes and sterols in-creased from 1·2 to 3·0% (72 h), from 0·2 to 1·8 (48 h), from 0·7 to 2·4 (72 h) and from 5·7 to 12·1% (48 h) and then decreased to the level of 1·1, 0·9, 1·2 and 1·3%, respectively.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 72 , Issue 2 , May 1992 , pp. 343 - 356
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1992

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