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Measuring Diet in the Lab: The Pros and Cons of QFASA

The secrets of a sea lion’s diet may lie in the chemical composition of its blubber. Scientists hope that analyzing the fatty acids in blubber using a new technique called Quantitative Fatty Acid Signature Analysis (QFASA) will help them describe long-term dietary trends. But is QFASA a reliable means to determine the diets of seals and sea lions? A new Consortium paper looks into this promising approach. April 22, 2013.

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RECENT PUBLICATIONS

High diving metabolism results in a short aerobic dive limit for Steller sea lions (Eumetopias jubatus).
Gerlinsky, C. D., D. A. S. Rosen and A. W. Trites. 2013.
In Journal of Comparative Physiology. B, Biochemical, Systemic, and Environmental Physiology. DOI: 101007/s00360-013-0742-7

Prey patch patterns predict habitat use by top marine predators with diverse foraging strategies.
Benoit-Bird, K. J., B. C. Battaile, S. A. Heppell, B. Hoover, D. Irons, N. Jones, K. J. Kuletz, C. A. Nordstrom, R. Paredes, R. M. Suryan, C. M. Waluk and A. W. Trites. 2012.
PLoS ONE Vol 8(1):e53348.

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