title: Lipid correction model of carbon stable isotopes for a cosmopolitan predator, spiny dogfish Squalus acanthias.
abstract: Three lipid correction models were evaluated for liver and white dorsal muscle from Squalus acanthias. For muscle, all three models performed well, based on the Akaike Information Criterion value corrected for small sample sizes (AIC(c) ), and predicted similar lipid corrections to δ(13) C that were up to 2.8 ‰ higher than those predicted using previously published models based on multispecies data. For liver, which possessed higher bulk C:N values compared to that of white muscle, all three models performed poorly and lipid-corrected δ(13) C values were best approximated by simply adding 5.74 ‰ to bulk δ(13) C values.
authors.affiliation: School of Aquatic and Fisheries Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, 1122 NE Boat St, Seattle, WA 98105, USA. reumj@u.washington.edu
authors.forename: J C P
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Reum
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002247:Carbon Isotopes / Q000032:analysis / Q000378:metabolism*; D004032:Diet; D008055:Lipids; D008099:Liver / Q000378:metabolism; D008954:Models, Biological; D018656:Muscle Fibers, Fast-Twitch / Q000378:metabolism; D011235:Predatory Behavior; D013045:Species Specificity; D048251:Squalus acanthias / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D002247:Carbon Isotopes; D008055:Lipids