Origin of the natural variation in the storage of dietary carotenoids in freshwater amphipod crustaceans.

Carotenoids are diverse lipophilic natural pigments which are stored in variable amounts by animals. Given the multiple biological functions of carotenoids, such variation may have strong implications in evolutionary biology. Crustaceans such as Gammarus amphipods store large amounts of these pigmen...

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Main Authors: Aurélie Babin, Sébastien Motreuil, Maria Teixeira, Alexandre Bauer, Thierry Rigaud, Jérôme Moreau, Yannick Moret
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0231247