Search Results - "Leichliter, Jennifer"
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Formation and Replacement of Bone and Tooth Mineralized Tissues in Green Iguanas (Iguana iguana) Revealed by In-Vivo Fluorescence Marking
Published in Integrative and comparative biology (15-09-2023)“…Synopsis Hard tissue formation patterns and rates reveal details of animal physiology, life history, and environment, but are understudied in reptiles. Here,…”
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Dietary and homeostatic controls of Zn isotopes in rats: a controlled feeding experiment and modeling approach
Published in Metallomics (04-06-2024)“…The stable isotope composition of zinc (δ66Zn), which is an essential trace metal for many biological processes in vertebrates, is increasingly used in…”
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The turnover of dental microwear texture: Testing the” last supper” effect in small mammals in a controlled feeding experiment
Published in Palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology (01-11-2020)“…Dental microwear texture (DMT) analysis is commonly applied for dietary reconstruction of vertebrates. The temporal scale on which dietarily informative…”
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Shape, size, and quantity of ingested external abrasives influence dental microwear texture formation in guinea pigs
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (08-09-2020)“…Food processing wears down teeth, thus affecting tooth functionality and evolutionary success. Other than intrinsic silica phytoliths, extrinsic mineral…”
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Severe cold-water bleaching of a deep-water reef underscores future challenges for Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems
Published in The Science of the total environment (15-11-2024)“…Elevated sea surface temperatures are causing an increase in coral bleaching events worldwide, and represent an existential threat to coral reefs. Early…”
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Laboratory Assessment of the Impact of Chemical Oxidation, Mineral Dissolution, and Heating on the Nitrogen Isotopic Composition of Fossil‐Bound Organic Matter
Published in Geochemistry, geophysics, geosystems : G3 (01-08-2022)“…Fossil‐bound organic material holds great potential for the reconstruction of past changes in nitrogen (N) cycling. Here, with a series of laboratory…”
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Grass leaves as potential hominin dietary resources
Published in Journal of human evolution (01-04-2018)“…Discussions about early hominin diets have generally excluded grass leaves as a staple food resource, despite their ubiquity in most early hominin habitats. In…”
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The ecomorphology of southern African rodent incisors: Potential applications to the hominin fossil record
Published in PloS one (20-02-2019)“…The taxonomic identification of mammalian fauna within fossil assemblages is a well-established component of paleoenvironmental reconstructions. However, many…”
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A simple CO2 equilibration method for measuring blood oxygen isotope compositions
Published in Rapid communications in mass spectrometry (15-04-2022)“…Rationale Blood water oxygen isotope compositions can provide valuable insights into physiological processes and ecological patterns. While blood samples are…”
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Seasonal and habitat effects on the nutritional properties of savanna vegetation: Potential implications for early hominin dietary ecology
Published in Journal of human evolution (01-08-2019)“…The African savannas that many early hominins occupied likely experienced stark seasonality and contained mosaic habitats (i.e., combinations of woodlands,…”
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Enameloid-bound δ 15 N reveals large trophic separation among Late Cretaceous sharks in the northern Gulf of Mexico
Published in Geobiology (01-01-2024)“…The nitrogen isotopic composition ( N/ N ratio, or δ N) of enameloid-bound organic matter (δ N ) in shark teeth was recently developed to investigate the…”
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Enameloid‐bound δ15N reveals large trophic separation among Late Cretaceous sharks in the northern Gulf of Mexico
Published in Geobiology (01-01-2024)“…The nitrogen isotopic composition (15N/14N ratio, or δ15N) of enameloid‐bound organic matter (δ15NEB) in shark teeth was recently developed to investigate the…”
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Tooth enamel nitrogen isotope composition records trophic position: a tool for reconstructing food webs
Published in Communications biology (07-04-2023)“…Nitrogen isotopes are widely used to study the trophic position of animals in modern food webs; however, their application in the fossil record is severely…”
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Cenozoic megatooth sharks occupied extremely high trophic positions
Published in Science advances (24-06-2022)“…Trophic position is a fundamental characteristic of animals, yet it is unknown in many extinct species. In this study, we ground-truth the 15 N/ 14 N ratio of…”
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Strontium Uptake and Intra-Population 87Sr/86Sr Variability of Bones and Teeth—Controlled Feeding Experiments With Rodents (Rattus norvegicus, Cavia porcellus)
Published in Frontiers in ecology and evolution (07-12-2020)“…Strontium isotopes in biogenic apatite, especially enamel, are widely employed to determine provenance and track migration in palaeontology and archaeology…”
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Stable isotope evidence for trophic niche partitioning in a South African savanna rodent community
Published in Current zoology (01-06-2015)“…Species' partitioning of resources remains one of the most integral components for understanding community assem- bly. Analysis of stable carbon and nitrogen…”
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Carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen stable isotopes in modern tooth enamel: A case study from Gorongosa National Park, central Mozambique
Published in Frontiers in ecology and evolution (24-11-2022)“…The analyses of the stable isotope ratios of carbon (δ 13 C), nitrogen (δ 15 N), and oxygen (δ 18 O) in animal tissues are powerful tools for reconstructing…”
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Published in Rapid communications in mass spectrometry (15-04-2022)“…The cover image is based on the Research Article A simple CO2 equilibration method for measuring blood oxygen isotope compositionsy by Daniel R. Green et al.,…”
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Nitrogen isotopes in tooth enamel record diet and trophic level enrichment: Results from a controlled feeding experiment
Published in Chemical geology (05-03-2021)“…Nitrogen isotope ratios (δ15N) are a well-established tool for investigating the dietary and trophic behavior of animals in terrestrial and marine food webs…”
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