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1. Anthraquinone pigments forming derivatives of 1,6,8-trihydroxy-9,10-anthraquinone have been found in the starfishEchinaster echinophorus (Lamarck).
2. The structures of the pigments isolated are identical with those of pigments of sea lilies.
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Pacific Ocean Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Far Eastern Scientific Center of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Vladivostok. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 5, pp. 636–640, September–October, 1977.
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Utkina, N.K., Maksimov, O.B. An thraquin one pigments of the starfish Echinaster echinophorus. IV. Chem Nat Compd 13, 528–531 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00569580
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