lipochrome

Noun

(plural lipochromes)

Any naturally-occurring, fat-soluble pigment such as carotenes or chlorophyll

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In many cases the colour-production is dependent on certain definite conditions - temperature, presence of oxygen, nature of the food-medium, &c. Ewart's important discovery that some of these lipochrome pigments occlude oxygen, while others do not, may have bearings on the facultative anaerobism of these organisms.
It contains chromatophores in many species, coloured by a mixed lipochrome pigment which FIG.

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