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Analysis of fatty acid composition revealed differences in the diets of tadpoles of two amphibian species

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The study of the composition of fatty acid markers of tadpoles of cohabiting amphibian species for the first time revealed differences in their diets: the moor frog Rana arvalis prefers bacteria not associated with plant detritus, whereas the diet of the common spadefoot Pelobates fuscus is based on cyanobacteria, green algae, diatoms, and possibly higher plants. Major differences in the fatty acid composition are determined by the difference in the percentage of eicosapentaenoic and myristic acids.

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  1. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 119071, Russia

    Yu. Yu. Dgebuadze & I. V. Bashinskiy

  2. Institute of Biophysics, Krasnoyarsk Science Center, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Krasnoyarsk, 660036, Russia

    N. N. Sushchik, O. N. Makhutova, G. S. Kalacheva & M. I. Gladyshev

  3. Privolzhskaya Lesostep’ State Natural Reserve, Penza, Russia

    V. V. Osipov

  4. Siberian Federal University, Krasnoyarsk, 660041, Russia

    N. N. Sushchik, O. N. Makhutova & M. I. Gladyshev

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Original Russian Text © Yu.Yu. Dgebuadze, N.N. Sushchik, I.V. Bashinskiy, O.N. Makhutova, G.S. Kalacheva, V.V. Osipov, M.I. Gladyshev, 2017, published in Doklady Akademii Nauk, 2017, Vol. 472, No. 3, pp. 350–353.

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Dgebuadze, Y.Y., Sushchik, N.N., Bashinskiy, I.V. et al. Analysis of fatty acid composition revealed differences in the diets of tadpoles of two amphibian species. Dokl Biochem Biophys 472, 31–34 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1607672917010082

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