A model experiment of aquatic food chain with special significance in fatty acid conversion

Abstract

In general, plants synthesize all of their fatty acids de novo. Animals not only synthesize most fatty acids, but they also reflect the diet components and alter exo-genous and endogenous sources. In the aquatic field, phytoplankton is the basic food. It serves as food for zooplankton, which then serves as diet for small fish and other sea animals which, in turn, are eaten by larger species. The present study with special significance in fatty acid synthesis, deposition and conversion was designed and performed as a model experiment of an aquatic food chain: phytoplankton (Chaetoceros simplex)→ zooplankton (Artemia sarina) →small fish (Lebistes reticulatus). © 1963, The Japanese Society of Fisheries Science. All rights reserved.