Brief communication: Tissue isotopic enrichment associated with growth depression in a pig: Implications for archaeology and ecology

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 141, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 486-493

  Warinner, Christina ^a   Tuross, Noreen ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diet modeling; Growth rate; Nutritional stress; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

CARBON 13; ISOTOPE; KERATIN; NITROGEN 15; OXYGEN 18;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGY; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FRACTIONATION; GROWTH INHIBITION; GROWTH RATE; HAIR; HUNGER; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; MALNUTRITION; MINERALIZATION; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; POPULATION MIGRATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SWINE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; ANIMALS; BONE AND BONES; CARBON ISOTOPES; COLLAGEN; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; GROWTH; MALNUTRITION; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; STARVATION; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; WATER; ZEA MAYS;

ANIMALIA; SUIDAE;

EID: 76149134066     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.21222     Document Type: Article

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