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Oxygen isotope fractionation between bird bone phosphate and drinking water

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Oxygen isotope compositions of bone phosphate (δ18Op) were measured in broiler chickens reared in 21 farms worldwide characterized by contrasted latitudes and local climates. These sedentary birds were raised during an approximately 3 to 4-month period, and local precipitation was the ultimate source of their drinking water. This sampling strategy allowed the relationship to be determined between the bone phosphate δ18Op values (from 9.8 to 22.5‰ V-SMOW) and the local rainfall δ18Ow values estimated from nearby IAEA/WMO stations (from −16.0 to −1.0‰ V-SMOW). Linear least square fitting of data provided the following isotopic fractionation equation: δ18Ow = 1.119 (±0.040) δ18Op − 24.222 (±0.644); R 2 = 0.98. The δ18Op–δ18Ow couples of five extant mallard ducks, a common buzzard, a European herring gull, a common ostrich, and a greater rhea fall within the predicted range of the equation, indicating that the relationship established for extant chickens can also be applied to birds of various ecologies and body masses. Applied to published oxygen isotope compositions of Miocene and Pliocene penguins from Peru, this new equation computes estimates of local seawater similar to those previously calculated. Applied to the basal bird Confuciusornis from the Early Cretaceous of Northeastern China, our equation gives a slightly higher δ18Ow value compared to the previously estimated one, possibly as a result of lower body temperature. These data indicate that caution should be exercised when the relationship estimated for modern birds is applied to their basal counterparts that likely had a metabolism intermediate between that of their theropod dinosaur ancestors and that of advanced ornithurines.

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Acknowledgements

Dr. Stanislaw Halas, co-author of this study, passed away the 3rd may 2017. Our thoughts are with his family and colleagues during these difficult times. The authors would like to thank V. Paulet, P. Touzeau, M. Mathis, D. Viscaïno, I. Buffetaut, J. Barnoud, M. and W. Halverson, G. and C. von Hahn, A. and O. von Lilienfeld, S. and G. Caillard, J., and J. and P. Angst for providing chicken bones and D. Berthet from the Musée des Confluences, Lyon, France, for providing the bone samples of Buteo buteo (50.001696), Larus argentatus (50.001682), and Anas platyrhynchos (50.001681). We also would like to thank the five anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments that greatly helped to improve the manuscript. This study was supported by the CNRS PICS project no. PIC07193, the National Basic Research Program of China grant 2012CB821900 (RA), and the Institut Universitaire de France (CL).

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  1. UMR 5276, Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon, Terre, Planètes et Environnement, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1/CNRS/École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 69622, Villeurbanne Cedex, France

    Romain Amiot, Serge Legendre, Abel Barral, Jean Goedert & Christophe Lécuyer

  2. Palaeobiology Research Group, Biological Sciences Department, University of Cape Town, Private Bag X3, Rhodes Gift, 7701, South Africa

    Delphine Angst

  3. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UMR 8538, Laboratoire de Géologie de l’Ecole Normale Supérieure, 75231, Paris Cedex 05, France

    Eric Buffetaut

  4. CNRS UMR 5023 Laboratoire d’Ecologie des Hydrosystèmes Naturels et Anthropisés, Université ClaudeBernard Lyon 1, 3 rue Raphaël Dubois, 69622, Villeurbanne Cedex, France

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    Jan Adolfssen

  6. Départements Biologie-Biochimie et Sciences de la Terre, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, CREA, 2 esplanade Roland-Garros, 51100, Reims, France

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  7. Department of Geography and Geology, Department of Mineralogy, Salzburg University, Hellbrunnerstraße 34, A-5020, Salzburg, Austria

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  8. Paleontology Research Lab, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences; Department of Biological Sciences, North Carolina State University, 11 W. Jones St, Raleigh, NC, 27601, USA

    Aurore Canoville

  9. Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, UMCS, pl. M. Curie-Sklodowskiej 1, 20-031, Lublin, Poland

    Stanislaw Halas

  10. Department of Earth’s Evolution and Environment, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ehime University, Ehime, 790-8577, Japan

    Nao Kusuhashi

  11. A.A. Trofimuk Institute of Petroleum Geology and Geophysics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, pr. Akademika Koptyuga 3, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia

    Ekaterina Pestchevitskaya

  12. Evolutionary Studies Institute and School of Geosciences, University of the Witwatersrand, P.O. WITS, Johannesburg, 2050, South Africa

    Kevin Rey

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Amiot, R., Angst, D., Legendre, S. et al. Oxygen isotope fractionation between bird bone phosphate and drinking water. Sci Nat 104, 47 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00114-017-1468-2

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