SEQUESTRATION OF DIETARY SECONDARY METABOLITES BY 3 SPECIES OF SEA HARES - LOCATION, SPECIFICITY AND DYNAMICS

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PENNINGS, SC
PAUL, VJ
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[1] Marine Laboratory, University of Guam, Mangilao, 96923, Guam
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10.1007/BF00349763
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Q17 [水生生物学];
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071004 ;
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We examined the location of sequestered secondary metabolites in three species of sea hares, Stylocheilus longicauda, Dolabella auricularia, and Aplysia californica (Opisthobranchia: Anaspidea). The sea hares ate a natural diet or were fed an artificial diet containing secondary metabolites in the laboratory. In all three species, sequestered secondary metabolites were located almost exclusively in the digestive gland, an internal organ, rather than in the exterior parts of the body, in eggs, or in ink (released when sea hares are disturbed). S. longicauda, a specialist sea hare, was able to sequester measurable amounts of all six algal metabolites offered (caulerpenyne, halimedatetraacetate, pachydictyol A, malyngamides A and B, and ochtodene) and two (luffariellolide and Dysidea spp. brominated diphenyl ether) of three sponge metabolites offered (chondrillin was not sequestered). Malyngamides A and B, found in the host plant of S. longicauda, were sequestered at high, but not unique concentrations. D. auricularia, a generalist sea hare, was fed caulerpenyne, pachydictyol A and malyngamide B; patterns of sequestration of these three compounds did not differ markedly between S. longicauda and D. auricularia. S. longicauda did not lose measurable amounts of malyngamides after 18 d on a malyngamide-free diet. These results suggest that sea hares have generic mechanisms for sequestering algal metabolites rather than mechanisms that are tightly linked to particular compounds, that these mechanisms do not differ dramatically between species, and that sequestered secondary metabolites are not located optimally for defense.
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