Odontocetes possess specialized fat bodies in and around the mandibles for sound reception which have complex topographical distributions of unique endogenous lipids (triacylglycerols and wax esters [WE]). Although there is diversity across species in the fatty acid (FA) and fatty alcohol (FAlc) components of
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