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Sterols, aliphatic hydrocarbons, and fatty acids of a nonphotosynthetic diatom,Nitzschia alba

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The unsaponifiable lipids and total fatty acids of a nonphotosynthetic diatom,Nitzschia alba, have been examined. The major fatty acids were found to be 14∶0, 16∶0, 18∶1, and 20∶5; small amounts of 15∶0, 16∶1, 18∶0, 18∶2, 18∶3, and 20∶4 acids also were present. The unsaponifiable lipids consisted mostly of sterols, with only traces (<0.1%) of hydrocarbons (chiefly C16, C18, and C28 normal olefins). The sterols contained brassicasterol (major) and clionasterol (minor), as well as traces of an unidentified sterol; clionasterol was present only in glycosidically bound form.

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  1. Department of Microbiology, Colorado State University, 80521, Ft. Collins, Colorado

    T. G. Tornabene (National Research Council of Canada Postdoctorate Fellow, 1967–68)

  2. Department of Biochemistry, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, KIN 6N5, Canada

    M. Kates

  3. Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, 92037, California, La Jolla

    B. E. Volcani

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Tornabene, T.G., Kates, M. & Volcani, B.E. Sterols, aliphatic hydrocarbons, and fatty acids of a nonphotosynthetic diatom,Nitzschia alba . Lipids 9, 279–284 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02532206

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