Trophic discrimination of nitrogen stable isotopes in amino acids varies with diet quality in a marine fish

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A Guide to Using Compound-Specific Stable Isotope Analysis to Study the Fates of Molecules in Organisms and Ecosystems (2019, background): “, high biological quality) generally have lower ∆(15)NC-D values, suggestive of little metabolic processing and extensive direct protein routing [62].”
Embracing variability in amino acid δ15N fractionation: mechanisms, implications, and applications for trophic ecology (2016, methodology): “…particularly in systems where significant changes in diet quality and/or mode of nitrogen excretion take place within a food web (e.g., Lorrain et al. 2009, Dale et al. 2011, Choy et al. 2012, Germain et al. 2013, ruiz- Cooley et al. 2013, 2014, Matthews and Ferguson 2014, McMahon et al. 2015b).”
Trophic position estimates of marine teleosts using amino acid compound specific isotopic analysis (2015, unknown): “…& , Dale et al. 2011), harbor seals (4.3 6 1.2 & , Ger-main et al. 2013), and captive ﬁsh reared on diets with low AA imbalance (5.1–5.9 & , McMahon et al. 2015b), but higher than that found in penguin blood (3.4–3.8 & , Lorrain et al. 2009) and feathers (3.5 6 0.4 & , McMahon et al. 2015a).”