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| Title |
Unusually High Levels of n‐6 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids in Whale Sharks and Reef Manta Rays
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| Published in |
Lipids, August 2013
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| DOI | 10.1007/s11745-013-3829-8 |
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| Authors |
L. I. E. Couturier, C. A. Rohner, A. J. Richardson, S. J. Pierce, A. D. Marshall, F. R. A. Jaine, K. A. Townsend, M. B. Bennett, S. J. Weeks, P. D. Nichols |
| Abstract |
Fatty acid (FA) signature analysis has been increasingly used to assess dietary preferences and trophodynamics in marine animals. We investigated FA signatures of connective tissue of the whale shark Rhincodon typus and muscle tissue of the reef manta ray Manta alfredi. We found high levels of n-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA), dominated by arachidonic acid (20:4n-6; 12-17 % of total FA), and comparatively lower levels of the essential n-3 PUFA-eicosapentaenoic acid (20:5n-3; ~1 %) and docosahexaenoic acid (22:6n-3; 3-10 %). Whale sharks and reef manta rays are regularly observed feeding on surface aggregations of coastal crustacean zooplankton during the day, which generally have FA profiles dominated by n-3 PUFA. The high levels of n-6 PUFA in both giant elasmobranchs raise new questions about the origin of their main food source. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| India | 1 | 50% |
| United States | 1 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 1 | 50% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 50% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 113 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Australia | 2 | 2% |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | <1% |
| Tanzania, United Republic of | 1 | <1% |
| Mozambique | 1 | <1% |
| South Africa | 1 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Mexico | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 105 | 93% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 30 | 27% |
| Researcher | 26 | 23% |
| Student > Master | 16 | 14% |
| Student > Bachelor | 11 | 10% |
| Other | 4 | 4% |
| Other | 6 | 5% |
| Unknown | 20 | 18% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 63 | 56% |
| Environmental Science | 20 | 18% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 3 | 3% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 2 | 2% |
| Philosophy | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 2 | 2% |
| Unknown | 22 | 19% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 02 August 2019.
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#14,789,079
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#1,525
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#118,359
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Outputs of similar age from Lipids
#8
of 13 outputs
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