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The Annual Dynamics of Tissue Carotenoids in a Bivalve Mollusk Cerastoderma glaucum (Bruguière, 1789)

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The annual dynamics of carotenoids was investigated in a bivalve mollusk Cerastoderma glaucum (Bruguière, 1789) and compared to that in another bivalve species, Anadara kagoshimensis (Tokunaga, 1906), both inhabiting the Black Sea’s Cossack Bay. In C. glaucum, the carotenoid spectrum was found to be represented by 11 free and 4 esterified forms. Of them, β-carotene, heteroxanthin and mactraxanthin, as well as esters of the latter two carotenoids, were present all the year through and accounted for 50–60% of total carotenoids, with mactraxanthin being species- specific. The other (minor) carotenoid fractions were present inconstantly being subject to seasonal fluctuations. In C. glaucum and A. kagoshimensis, despite similar feeding types and habitats, the qualitative carotenoid composition and patterns of seasonal changes in carotenoid levels were found to be considerably different. Distinctions were also revealed in carotenoid spectra of C. glaucum and other Cerastoderma species living in different habitats.

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This study was implemented within a state assignment to the A.O. Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas (Sevastopol) “Functional, metabolic and toxicological aspects of the existence of hydrobionts and their popula tions in biotopes with different physicochemical regimes” (reg. no. AAAA-A 18-118021490093-4 of February 14, 2018). The equipment exploited in this work belonged to the Center for Collective Use “Far Eastern Center of Structural Studies” at the Institute of Chemistry (Vladivostok).

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Russian Text © The Author(s), 2020, published in Zhurnal Evolyutsionnoi Biokhimii i Fiziologii, 2020, Vol. 56, No. 1, pp. 3–12.

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Borodina, A.V., Zadorozhny, P.A. The Annual Dynamics of Tissue Carotenoids in a Bivalve Mollusk Cerastoderma glaucum (Bruguière, 1789). J Evol Biochem Phys 56, 1–10 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0022093020010019

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