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Lipid and fatty acid composition and energy partitioning during embryo development in the shrimp Macrobrachium borellii

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Energy partitioning, composition of lipids and fatty acids, and their utilization by embryos were determined in the lecithotrophic shrimp Macrobrachium borellii during seven development stages. The biochemical composition at stage I is represented by lipids, proteins, and carbohydrates, with 29.3, 28.7, and 0.2% dry weight, respectively. The former two were identified as the major energy-providing components, contributing 131 and 60 cal/100 mg egg, dry weight, respectively. The overall conversion efficiency (CE) was 45.0% (calculated as percentage of vitelline energy transformed into embryonic tissues). Lipids were the most important energy reserve (CE 39.3%), followed by proteins (CE 57.1%), both being simultaneously utilized during development while carbohydrates were synthesized de novo (CE 587.5%). Variation in the lipid class composition of embryos and vitellus showed an accumulation of triacylglycerols (TAG) and phospholipids (PL) up to stage IV, a more active accumulation and selective utilization phase (stages V and VI), and a consumption and de novo synthesis period until hatching. Structural lipids (PL and cholesterol) and pigment astaxanthin were selectively conserved in embryos, but TAG, hydrocarbons, and esterified sterols were preferentially depleted. Monounsaturated fatty acids (FA) were the major group in TAG, whereas polyunsaturated FA (PUFA) were the major group in PL after organogenesis. Certain PUFA such as 22∶6n−3 and 20∶5n−3 were selectively accumulated in PL.

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Abbreviations

BSA:

bovine serum albumin

CE:

conversion efficiency

DHA:

docosahexaenoic acid

EPA:

eicosapentaenoic acid

FA:

fatty acid

HP-TL:

high-performance thin-layer chromatography

PL:

polar lipid

PUFA:

polyunsaturated fatty acid

SM:

sphingomyelin

TAG:

triacylglycerol

TLC:

thin-layer chromatography

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    Horacio Heras, M. R. Gonzalez-Baró & Ricardo J. Pollero

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Heras, H., Gonzalez-Baró, M.R. & Pollero, R.J. Lipid and fatty acid composition and energy partitioning during embryo development in the shrimp Macrobrachium borellii . Lipids 35, 645–651 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11745-000-0569-z

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