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Carotenoids and their importance in the nutrition of fish and crustaceans

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Title Carotenoids and their importance in the nutrition of fish and crustaceans
 
Creator Easterson, D C V
 
Subject Fish Nutrition
 
Description Carotenoids are quantitatively very prominent among
the substances which render colour - Biochrome. There are
an immense array of carotenoids in the animal kingdom and
so also in the plants. They are present predominantly in
the eye spot of the protozoans, in the body of coelentrates,
sponges and other' organisms. The only clear cut physiological
function they perform/as precursor for vitamin A.
Apart from this though many a varied roles ascribed to them
in the physiology of the organism are highly speculative in
nature. We, at the dawn of revolutionary findings in the
function of carotenoids
 
Date 1987
 
Type Conference or Workshop Item
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/5036/1/07.pdf
Easterson, D C V (1987) Carotenoids and their importance in the nutrition of fish and crustaceans. In: Summer Institute in Recent Advances in Finfish and Shellfish Nutrition, 11-30 May 1987, Kochi.