Abstract:Stable isotope ratios in organisms can be used to estimate source contributions to the organism. However, during lipid synthesis light isotopes of carbon (12C) and hydrogen (1H) are preferentially incorporated into the lipids, potentially causing source contributions to be poorly estimated. Contrary to expectations and other published examples in animals, larval lampreys, which are basal vertebrates, have lipids which are enriched in heavy isotopes of carbon (13C), but still depleted in heavy hydrogen (deuteri… Show more
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