Open AccessL-TIROSINA: ANIMALE O VEGETALE?
Author(s) -
Claudio Fuganti
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
rendiconti. classe di scienze matematiche e naturali
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2384-986X
pISSN - 1974-6989
DOI - 10.4081/scie.2014.200
Subject(s) - animal species , biology , abundance (ecology) , zoology , chemistry , ecology
An investigation has been carried out to show how it is possible to collect information on the animal or vegetal nature of the diet of a certain animal, by determining the O18 isotopic abundance of the OH group of tyrosine samples extracted from proteins obtained from the animal itself.