The fatty-acid composition of the deep-water Baikal amphipod Polyacanthisca calceolata Baz., 1937, that was collected in the vicinity of hydrocarbon-gas releases (near the submerged mud volcano St. Petersburg) at depths of 1300–1400 m during the international expedition Miry in Baikal was studied for the first time. Gas-chromatography–mass-spectrometry (GC–MS) detected in the amphipod tissues 46 fatty acids, the principal ones of which were 16:0, 14:0, 18:0, 18:1n9, 16:1n7, 18:3n3, and 20:4n6. The high 18:1n9/18:1n7 ratio and low 16:1n7/16:0 and 20:5n3/22:6n3 ratios confirmed that the deep-water amphipod P. calceolata was a necrophage.
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Specimens were collected by the Mir DWP with organizational and financial support of the Foundation for Preservation of Lake Baikal and the Metropol group of companies. The scientific part of the work was sponsored by RFBR Grants Nos. 14-05-00516 and 14-44-04126 and the Basic Research Program of the RAS (Project V.46.5.2). The authors thank Cand. Biol. Sci. I. V. Mekhanikova, Limnological Institute, SB, RAS for determining the amphipod species.
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Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 6, November–December, 2015, pp. 899–901.
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Bazarsadueva, S.V., Radnaeva, L.D., Sitnikova, T.Y. et al. Fatty-Acid Composition of the Deep-Water Baikal Amphipod Polyacanthisca calceolata . Chem Nat Compd 51, 1042–1045 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10600-015-1486-2
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