Can the carbon and nitrogen isotope values of offspring be used as a proxy for their mother’s diet? Using foetal physiology to interpret bulk tissue and amino acid δ15N values

Lubcker, NicoWhiteman, John P.Newsome, Seth D.Millar, Robert P.De Bruyn, P.J. Nico2020-09-252020-09-252020-07Lübcker N, Whiteman JP, Newsome SD, Millar RP, de Bruyn PJN (2020) Can the carbon and nitrogen isotope values of offspring be usedas a proxy for their mother’s diet? Using foetal physiology to interpret bulk tissue and amino acidδ15N values. Conservation Physiology 8(1): coaa060;doi:10.1093/conphys/coaa060.2051-1434 (online)10.1093/conphys/coaa060http://hdl.handle.net/2263/76221Data will be made available on the Dryad Digital Repository.Please read abstract in the article.en© The Author 2020. Published by Oxford University Press and the Society for Experimental Biology. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.Foetal physiologyBulk tissue nitrogenCarbon isotope valuesMother–offspring stable isotope valuesMother–offspring bulk tissuesCan the carbon and nitrogen isotope values of offspring be used as a proxy for their mother’s diet? Using foetal physiology to interpret bulk tissue and amino acid δ15N valuesArticle