Detection of food intake in a marine mammal using marine osmolytes and their analogues as dietary biomarkers

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 300, Issue , 2005, Pages 213-228

  Eisert, Regina ^a,e   Oftedal, Olav T ^a   Lever, Michael ^b   Ramdohr, Sven ^c   Breier, Bernhard H ^d   Barrell, Graham K ^e  

^a SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b CANTERBURY HEALTH LABORATORIES   (New Zealand)

^c ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^e LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Arsenobetaine; Dietary biomarker; Foraging; Lactation; Marine mammal; Osmolytes; Trimethylamine N oxide; Weddell seal

Indexed keywords

BIOMARKER; BLOOD; DETECTION METHOD; FOOD INTAKE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MARINE MAMMAL;

INVERTEBRATA; LEPTONYCHOTES WEDDELLII; MAMMALIA;

EID: 26944473995     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps300213     Document Type: Article

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