Lipid sac area as a proxy for individual lipid content of arctic calanoid copepods
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We present an accurate, fast, simple and non-destructive photographic method to estimate wax ester and lipid content in single individuals of the calanoid copepod genus Calanus and test this method against gas-chromatographic lipid measurements.
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