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Phytyl esters in a marine dinoflagellate

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The first naturally occurring phytyl esters from a marine alga were isolated from a dinoflagellate,Peridinium foliaceum (Stein) Biecheler, cultured photosynthetically and harvested at stationary phase of growth. At this stage, phytyl esters were the major wax esters present, constituting 5% of the total lipid, and may be present largely in the “eyespot” structure. The fatty acids esterified to the phytol were predominantly polyunsaturated: 16∶3 n−3 (15%), 18∶5 n−3 (6%), 20∶5 n−3 (36%), and 22∶6 n−3 (17%).

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  1. Marine Biology Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, 92093, La Jolla, CA

    Nancy W. Withers & Judd C. Nevenzel

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Withers, N.W., Nevenzel, J.C. Phytyl esters in a marine dinoflagellate. Lipids 12, 989–993 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02533324

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