| Literature DB >> 17716942 |
Chad L Leverette1, Melissa Warren, Marie-Ange Smith, Garriet W Smith.
Abstract
The production of purple pigment in gorgonian sclerites in response to biotic insults has been used to determine the disease state of these organisms. The chemical nature of the pigment present in the sclerites has until now been unknown. Using Raman microscopy, it was determined that this pigment is a carotenoid with a polyene chain containing between 14 and 15 carbon double bonds.Entities:
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Year: 2007 PMID： 17716942 DOI： 10.1016/j.saa.2007.07.018
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Spectrochim Acta A Mol Biomol Spectrosc ISSN： 1386-1425 Impact factor: 4.098