Figure 5
Comparison of the colours of a live lobster with crystals of crustacyanin as well as a cooked lobster and a crystal of astaxanthin. Top row: live lobster, β-crustacyanin (Chayen, 1998) and α-crustacyanin crystals (Chayen et al., 2003). Bottom row: cooked lobster and an astaxanthin crystal grown by Dr M. Helliwell (Bartalucci et al., 2007). |