The main aim of this work was to determine the principal lipid classes and compositions of fatty acids (FFAs) in triacylglycerols (TAGs) and phospholipids in adult shrimps Crangon crangon from coastal areas of the Gulf of Gdansk (Baltic Sea, Poland). High performance liquid chromatography with a laser light-scattering detector (HPLC-LLSD) was used to separate the lipid classes. The FFA composition was determined with gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) and matrix-assisted laser-desorption time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF-MS). The following lipid classes were separated using HPLC-LLSD: TAGs, FFAs, sterols (ST) and polar lipids (PL). The HPLC-LLSD analysis showed the dominance of sterols, which were missing from MALDI-TOF-MS, sterols made up 2.5 mg g-1 of the total lipids on the basis of this analysis. TAGs and FFAs were the next most abundant lipid classes, accounting 1.9 mg g-1 and 2.0 mg g-1 of the total lipids, respectively.
Crangon crangon; lipid components; HPLC-LLSD; GC-MS; MALDI-TOF
