Biosynthesis of polyunsaturated fatty acids in aquatic ecosystems: general pathways and new directions

By M. V. Bell, D. Tocher. 2009

210 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Aquatic Science, Global and Planetary Change, Nutrition and Dietetics

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In Aquatic Science

1. S. Taipale
2. E. Peltomaa
3. Michael T. Brett
4. A. Galloway
5. Liliane Ruess
6. U. Strandberg
7. D. Müller-Navarra
8. Carla C. C. R. de Carvalho

In Global and Planetary Change

1. Michael T. Brett
2. Liliane Ruess
3. S. Taipale
4. A. Galloway
5. D. Müller-Navarra
6. Carla C. C. R. de Carvalho
7. C. Simenstad
8. E. Peltomaa

In Nutrition and Dietetics

1. D. Müller-Navarra
2. Carla C. C. R. de Carvalho
3. Liliane Ruess
4. Maria-José Caramujo

Citations in the corpus

• Addressing assumptions: variation in stable isotopes and fatty acids of marine macrophytes can confound conclusions of food web studies (2013, background): “These EFAs cannot be synthesized de novo by animals (Bell & Tocher 2009).”
• The Various Roles of Fatty Acids (2018, background): “Freshwater fish are reported to have a greater ability for conversion of C18 PUFA to long chain PUFA than marine species, which is attributed to deficiencies in at least one key enzyme of the long chain PUFA biosynthesis pathway in marine fish [28,29].”
• Bioconversion of fatty acids at the basis of marine food webs: insights from a compound-specific stable isotope analysis (2012, background): “Although these enzymatic pathways are well documented (Bell & Tocher 2009), the use of FA from differential food by consumers is far from well known.”
• Essential Biomolecules in Food Webs (2019, background): “Conversion rates among PUFA, especially from ALA to eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA: 20:5ω3) or docosahexaenoic acid (DHA: 22:6ω3), are low (Stanley-Samuelson et al., 1987; Bell and Tocher, 2009).”
• Fatty acids as dietary tracers in benthic food webs (2012, unknown): “However, because benthic invertebrates have a greater ability to modify dietary FAs (Dalsgaard et al. 2003, Bell & Tocher 2009), controlled feeding studies should be employed before using FAs as dietary tracers in field studies.”
• Diet-specific biomarkers show that high-quality phytoplankton fuels herbivorous zooplankton in large boreal lakes (2014, background): “Invertebrates may preferentially catabolise or modify FA molecules from dietary precursor FA (Bell & Tocher, 2009).”