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Presence oftrans-6-Hexadecenoic acid in the White JellyfishAurelia aurita Lamarck and in a Caribbean gorgonian

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Abstract

An unusual fatty acid,trans-6-hexadecenoic, previously found in the lipids of marine turtles, the ocean sunfish and a sea anemone, is also present in the lipids of the white jellyfish and in a common Caribbean sublittoral gorgonian.

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  1. Halifax Laboratory, Fisheries Research Board of Canada, Halifax, Nova Scotia

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An erratum to this article is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02534338.

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Hooper, S.N., Ackman, R.G. Presence oftrans-6-Hexadecenoic acid in the White JellyfishAurelia aurita Lamarck and in a Caribbean gorgonian. Lipids 7, 624–626 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02531966

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