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Annual Dynamics of the Composition of Polar Lipids, Storage Lipids, and Fatty Acid Markers in the Hydrocoral Millepora dichotoma Forskål, 1775 from Coastal Waters of Vietnam

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The amount of structural and storage lipids and the composition of fatty acids (FA) in the symbiotic hydroid coral Millepora dichotoma were determined monthly throughout the year. In the first half of the year, the hydrocoral actively accumulated lipids, as indicated by a twofold increase in the content of reserve lipid classes of (waxes, triglycerides, and monoalkyl diacyl glycerides) concurrent with a relatively stable level of polar phospholipids (PL) and sterols. There was a decrease in the proportion between choline and ethanolamine glycerophospholipids (PC/PE) in July, a sharp drop in the content of triglycerides in August, and a large dispersion the PL values in September, which may be due to energy expenditures and structural changes in the colonies during spawning. The level of 22:6n-3, which is synthesized in hydrocoral from FA of plankton, was maximum in the summer, and the level of 18:4n-3, the FA marker of photosynthetic symbionts, doubled in the winter. This indicates the predominance of the heterotrophic mode of nutrition in M. dichotoma in the summer and an increased role of symbionts (an autotrophic food source) in the winter with a drop in water temperature and the onset of a stormy period.

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The authors are grateful to D.S. Dat (Institute of Oceanography, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology) for the collection of biological material and to B.S. Hoang (Institute of Oceanography, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology) for the species identification.

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  1. Zhirmunsky National Scientific Center of Marine Biology, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, 690041, Vladivostok, Russia

    A. B. Imbs

  2. Institute of Natural Products Chemistry, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam

    L. T. P. Dang & L. Q. Pham

  3. Graduate University Science and Technology, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam

    L. T. P. Dang & K. B. Nguyen

  4. Hanoi University of Natural Resources and Environment, Hanoi, Vietnam

    H. V. Luu

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This work was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (grant no. 19-54-54002) and the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (grant nos. QTRU01.05/19-20 and QTRU04.05/18-19).

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Imbs, A.B., Dang, L.T., Nguyen, K.B. et al. Annual Dynamics of the Composition of Polar Lipids, Storage Lipids, and Fatty Acid Markers in the Hydrocoral Millepora dichotoma Forskål, 1775 from Coastal Waters of Vietnam. Russ J Mar Biol 46, 221–225 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063074020030062

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