Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India

Volume 29 Issue 1&2

Lipids and fatty acids of the bivalve Anadara granosa from lower Long Sand of Gangetic deltaic region of West Bengal.

Subhasish Chattopadhyay, Prasanta K. Pal, Amitabha Ghosh, Suniti Misra, Tarun K. Dam and Amalesh Choudhury
Abstract

The lipids of flesh and combined hepatopancreas and gonad of Anadara granosa were fractionated into hydrocarbons, sterol esters, triglycerides, wax esters and polar lipids. Fatty acids of total lipids, sterol esters, triglycerides and wax esters were analysed by gas chromatography. Significant quantitative variations were observed in the fatty acid compositions of the various lipid components of the two samples studied.

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Date : 31-12-1987