Article révisé par les pairs
Résumé : The sterol compositions of eight samples from marine brown algae of the Dictyotales and Fucales have been analysed qualitatively and quantitatively, mainly by GC-MS. Cholesterol or fucosterol were invariably the major components. Fucosterol, the typical brown algae sterol, was absent in some species. The amount of sterols in the Fucales was, in the mean, ten-fold that of the Dictyotales. 5α-Cholestan-3β-ol, ergosta-5,24-dien-3gb-ol and a C30-sterol were detected for the first time in brown algae. © 1994.