Table 29 • Concentration of free amino acids in skeletal muscle of 

 plaice Pleuroncatec platessa from a reference station at 

 Loc Tudy and from oil -polluted Aber Benoit and Aber Wrac'h. 

 n = 5 unless otherwise stated. 



April 1979 (thirteen months after spill) 



FAA Concentration 



(^M/g wet weight and standard deviation) 



Amino Acid Loc Tudy Aber Benoit Aber Wrac'h 



0.18 + 0.11 

 0.56 + 0.35 



8.94 + 2.43* 

 0.06 + 0.02 

 0.59 + 0.27 

 0.66 + 0.16 

 0.30 + 0.05 

 0.56 + 0.31 

 8.86 + 3.01 

 1.15 + 0.24* 



0.12 + 0.01 + 

 0.06 + 0.02 + 

 0.07 + 0.01 + 

 0.06 + 0.05 + 



5.30 + 1.24 



22.18 



detected in one sample 



significantly different from reference at o = 0.05 



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