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Composition and Content of Carotenoids of Gastropod Tritia reticulata in the Black Sea

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The results of a 2-year study of the composition and content of carotenoids of sea snails Tritia reticulata (L., 1758) living in a mixed bottom community of bivalve mollusks in the sandy zone of the upper sublittoral (depth 0–1 m) of Cossack Bay in Sevastopol are presented. The highest content of total carotenoids are detected in June (1.8–2.09 mg/100 g of wet weight); the average for both years is 1.54 mg/100 g of wet weight. In the qualitative composition of T. reticulata taken from the pastures of bivalves on sandy–silt soil, 15 free carotenoids are identified: β-carotene, echinenone, hydroxyechinenone, astaxanthin, didehydroastaxanthin, diadinoxanthin, diatoxanthin, fucoxanthin, halocynthiaxanthin, fucoxanthinol, mactraxanthin, heteroxanthin, lutein, zeaxanthin, alloxanthin, and esters of the last four carotenoids. The possibility of metabolic transformations of carotenoids is discussed.

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In experiments, we used the equipment of the Center for Collective Use “Far Eastern Center for Structural Research” of the Institute of Chemistry, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences.

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This work was carried out as part of the State Task of the Federal Research Center of the Institute of Biology of the South Seas of the Russian Academy of Sciences “Functional, Metabolic and Toxicological Aspects of the Existence of Hydrobionts and Their Populations in Biotopes with Different Physicochemical Regimes,” theme no. 121041400077-1.

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Abbreviations: HPLC, high performance liquid chromatography; TCC, total carotenoid content.

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Borodina, A.V., Zadorozhny, P.A. Composition and Content of Carotenoids of Gastropod Tritia reticulata in the Black Sea. Inland Water Biol 16, 1166–1172 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1995082923060068

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