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Integumental Pigments of the Amphipod, Jassa

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THE integumental pigments of the isopod Crustacea are ommochromes1,2, but by contrast the effectively similar colour of the amphipod Gammarus is due to carotenoids3, probably in the form of carotenoproteins. The implication of these findings was that this constitutes a general distinction between these rather closely related orders.

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NEEDHAM, A. Integumental Pigments of the Amphipod, Jassa. Nature 228, 1336–1337 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/2281336a0

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