Homarine as a feeding deterrent in common shallow-water antarctic lamellarian gastropodMarseniopsis mollis: A rare example of chemical defense in a marine …

…, BJ Baker, MT Hamann, W Yoshida, M Slattery…

Index: McClintock, J. B.; Baker, B. J.; Hamann, M. T.; Yoshida, W.; Slattery, M.; et al. Journal of Chemical Ecology, 1994 , vol. 20, # 10 p. 2539 - 2550

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Abstract The common bright yellow antarctic lamellarian gastropod Marseniopsis mollis was examined for the presence of defensive chemistry. Proton nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy indicated that a major component of ethanolic extracts purified by reversed-phase column chromatography was homarine. Further high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) analysis of the mantle, foot, and viscera verified the presence of ...