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Unsaturated aldehydes
Chemical defense
Algae
Copepods
Blooms
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Aquatic Sciences in Current Contents(R)/Agricultural, Biology
& Environmental Sciences.
Abstract:
Like marine diatoms, some freshwater diatoms produce alpha, beta, gamma, delta-polyunsaturated aldehydes (PUA) when damaged. Some of these oxylipins are suspected of impairing egg viability in marine copepods. To determine whether these compounds also p