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Vitamin A and carotenoids in certain invertebrates: V. Mollusca: Cephalopoda

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

L. R. Fisher ,
S. K. Kon  and
S. Y. Thompson
L. R. Fisher
Affiliation:
National Institute for Research in Dairying, University of Reading
S. K. Kon
Affiliation:
National Institute for Research in Dairying, University of Reading
S. Y. Thompson
Affiliation:
National Institute for Research in Dairying, University of Reading
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In our previous paper (Fisher, Kon & Thompson, 1956) on Mollusca we pointed out that the Cephalopoda were so different from the other classes in vitamin A and carotenoid relationships that they would be more satisfactorily considered separately. We have so far analysed ten species of cephalopods and found vitamin A in all of them. The studies of previous investigators of vitamin A in these molluscs were confined to its function in the visual cycle and to its contribution to the vitamin A reserves of sperm whales feeding on cephalopods. The carotenoids of cephalopods have been given even less attention than vitamin A.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 35 , Issue 1 , February 1956 , pp. 63 - 80
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1956

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