Carotenoids from green-algae and cyanobacteria as phyco- and photobionts of Peltigera species

ABSTRACT. Column, thin-layer and high-performance liquid chromatography revealed the presence of the following carotenoids in the thalli of 12 species (27 specimens) of Peltigera from various ecological niches: a-, fJ-carotene, fJ-cryptoxanthin, lutein, zeaxanthin, diatoxanthin, antheraxanthin, echinenone, 3' -, 4' -hydroxyechinenone, canthaxanthin, fJ-doradexanthin, neoxanthin, rubixanthin, astaxanthin, violaxanthin and capsochrome. All species with cyanobacteria as their photobiont, irrespective of the site from which they were collected, contained fJ-carotene and zeaxanthin, and those with green-algae as their phycobiont contained fJ-carotene and lutein.

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