Signature fatty acids provide tools for determination of the distribution and interactions of mycorrhizal fungi in soil

PA Olsson - FEMS microbiology ecology, 1999 - academic.oup.com
… In biomass estimation primarily the phospholipid fatty acids (… as lipids and by using the
signature fatty acids it is possible to … Various aspects of how the fatty acid signatures can be used …

Quantitative fatty acid signature analysis: a new method of estimating predator diets

SJ Iverson, C Field, W Don Bowen… - Ecological …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
acid signature. To estimate the composition of the predator's diet based on these signatures,
we take a weighted mixture of the fatty acid signatures of the potential prey types and …

The fat that matters: soil food web analysis using fatty acids and their carbon stable isotope signature

L Ruess, PM Chamberlain - Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2010 - Elsevier
… Within the framework of this review we introduce fatty acid biomarkers and their isotope
signatures as tools in assigning feeding strategies to decomposer invertebrates and in …

Signature fatty acids in phospholipids and lipopolysaccharides as indicators of microbial biomass and community structure in agricultural soils

L Zelles, QY Bai, T Beck, F Beese - Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 1992 - Elsevier
fatty acids, including unsubstituted, straight- and branched-chain,unsaturated and hydroxy
fatty acids … Good correlations between the total amounts of fatty acids derived from …

qfasar: quantitative fatty acid signature analysis with R.

JF Bromaghin, T Poisot - Methods in Ecology & Evolution, 2017 - search.ebscohost.com
… of research., Quantitative fatty acid signature analysis (QFASA) is a … of a library of prey
signature data, compute goodness-of-fit … Use of the package is illustrated with signature data from …

Phospholipid fatty acid and lipopolysaccharide fatty acid signature lipids in methane-utilizing bacteria

JP Bowman, JH Skerratt, PD Nichols… - FEMS Microbiology …, 1991 - academic.oup.com
… have been found to be mainly C10-C1s, even chain fatty acids [5]. Profiles of both PLFAs,
LPS-OH fatty acids and other lipids of a specific organism provide a signature useful for its …

Distance measures and optimization spaces in quantitative fatty acid signature analysis

JF Bromaghin, KD Rode, SM Budge… - Ecology and …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
… for differential metabolism of individual fatty acids have been conducted with several …
prey and predator fatty acid signature spaces. Fatty acid signatures of pseudopredators were …

Evaluating quantitative fatty acid signature analysis (QFASA) in fish using controlled feeding experiments

A Happel, L Stratton, C Kolb, C Hays… - Canadian Journal of …, 2016 - cdnsciencepub.com
… that resembles the observed predator’s signature the closest … -predators using prey fatty
acid signatures to investigate accuracy … sampling one prey fatty acid signature subsample (with …

Use of the signature fatty acid 16: 1ω5 as a tool to determine the distribution of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in soil

C Ngosong, E Gabriel, L Ruess - Journal of lipids, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
… the fatty acid 16:1ω5. We briefly reviewed the application of this signature fatty acid, followed
… , spore biomass estimated by the neutral lipid fatty acid (NLFA) 16:1ω5 decreased to almost …

Managing the essential zeros in quantitative fatty acid signature analysis

C Stewart, C Field - Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental …, 2011 - Springer
… QFASA is based on the relationship between fatty acid (FA) signatures of predators and …
the FA signature (the distribution of all FAs) in the predator is a reflection of the FA signature