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Carotenoids DB: Phaeodactylum tricornutum   [   About  |   Help  |   Search carotenoid entry  |   Search organism entry  |   Search similar carotenoids  |   Predict biological activities of a carotenoid   ] Organism name Phaeodactylum tricornutum                                Find images with Google NCBI taxonomy ID 2850 Lineage Lineage (full); root; cellular organisms; Eukaryota; Stramenopiles; Bacillariophyta; Bacillariophyceae; Bacillariophycidae; Naviculales; Phaeodactylaceae; Phaeodactylum; Description Alga: Diatom  (Primary producer of carotenoids)                              Japanese Carotenoid Profile   [   Reconstructed carotenoid biosynthesis pathways of the Phaeodactylum tricornutum carotenoids  |   Search similar profiled organisms   ]  CA00309  β-Carotene  (Ref.36)    CA00324  Diatoxanthin  (Ref.36)    CA00404  Diadinoxanthin  (Ref.36)    CA00519  Fucoxanthin  (Ref.36)    CA00827  Apo-10'-fucoxanthinal  (Ref.56)    CA00818  Apo-12'-fucoxanthinal  (Ref.56)   References Ref.36 : F. Pennington, R. R. L. Guillard and S. Liaaen-Jensen, Biochemical Systematics and Ecology, Vol.16, No.7/8, pp. 589-592, 1988, "Carotenoid Distribution Patterns in Bacillariophyceae (Diatoms)" Ref.56 : B. A. Shaw, R. J. Anderson, P. J. Harrison, Marine Biology (1995) 124:467-472, "Feeding deterrence properties of apo-fucoxanthinoids from marine diatoms. I. Chemical structures of apo-fucoxanthinoids produced by Phaeodactylum tricornutum"    Search other references with Google Scholar