Carotenoids and their importance in the nutrition of fish and crustaceans
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Carotenoids and their importance in the nutrition of fish and crustaceans
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Easterson, D C V
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Fish Nutrition
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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 |
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1987
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Conference or Workshop Item
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application/pdf
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en
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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. |
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