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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY
Volume 74, Issue 7, Pages 651-660Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/ajp.22019
Keywords
mechanistic model; Macaca fascicularis; stable isotopes; cynomolgus monkey
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- IC postdoctoral fellowship
- National Center for Research Resources [P40 RR021380]
- NSF-RTG
- Intelligence Community (IC)
- National Science Foundation - Research Training Group
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The stable isotopic composition of drinking water, diet, and atmospheric oxygen influence the isotopic composition of body water (H-2/H-1, O-18/O-16 expressed as delta H-2 and delta O-18). In turn, body water influences the isotopic composition of organic matter in tissues, such as hair and teeth, which are often used to reconstruct historical dietary and movement patterns of animals and humans. Here, we used a nonhuman primate system (Macaca fascicularis) to test the robustness of two different mechanistic stable isotope models: a model to predict the delta H-2 and delta O-18 values of body water and a second model to predict the delta H-2 and delta O-18 values of hair. In contrast to previous human-based studies, use of nonhuman primates fed controlled diets allowed us to further constrain model parameter values and evaluate model predictions. Both models reliably predicted the delta H-2 and delta O-18 values of body water and of hair. Moreover, the isotope data allowed us to better quantify values for two critical variables in the models: the delta H-2 and delta O-18 values of gut water and the O-18 isotope fractionation associated with a carbonyl oxygen-water interaction in the gut (alpha(ow)). Our modeling efforts indicated that better predictions for body water and hair isotope values were achieved by making the isotopic composition of gut water approached that of body water. Additionally, the value of aow was 1.0164, in close agreement with the only other previously measured observation (microbial spore cell walls), suggesting robustness of this fractionation factor across different biological systems. Am. J. Primatol. 74: 651-660, 2012. (C) 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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