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PACIFIC SCIENCE, Vol. XV, January 1961 
TABLE 1 
Free Amino Acids Present in Specimens of the Abalone, 
Halt otis cracherodii. from a Polluted and Three Nonpolluted Areas 
3NINVTV 
ARGININE 
ASPARTIC ACID 
ASPARAGINE 
CYSTINE 
| GLUTAMIC ACID 
GLYCINE 
1 HISTIDINE 
C/3 
z 
0 
D 
u; 
LYSINE 
METHIONINE 
PHENYLALANINE 
PROLINE 
SERINE 
THREONINE 
TYROSINE 
VALINE 
5 
z 
o 
z 
u 
z 
3 
UNKNOWN #2 
UNKNOWN #3 || 
Santa Catalina Is 
X 
X 
X* 
X 
x. 
X 
X 
><^ 
>< 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
Anacapa Is. 
\x_ 
x 1 
X 
b 
X 
x^ 
X_' 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
San Clemente Is 
X 
x'b 1 
X 
X 
X 
X 
x^ 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
White’s Point 
X 
X 
x 
X 
VI 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
* Very faint. 
Fig. 5. Chromatogram of free amino acids of Pachygrapsus eras sipes from the mouth of the San Gabriel 
River at Alamitos Bay, a polluted area. 
