Abstract

A survey of thirteen species of free-living and symbiotic flatworms for β-amino acids has been carried out. β-alanine and β-aminoisobutyric acid were found to occur most commonly as free amino acids in the symbiotic species in contact with the tissues of their host. These compounds were not detected as free amino acids in the two free-living species which were examined.

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