@article{9637445493d14483b936ccf09984a9bb,
title = "Characterization of blubber fatty acid signatures in northern elephant seals (Mirounga angustirostris) over the postweaning fast",
keywords = "Blubber, Catabolism, Fasting, Fatty acid, Marine mammal, Mobilization",
author = "Noren, {Dawn P.} and Budge, {Suzanne M.} and Iverson, {Sara J.} and Goebel, {Michael E.} and Costa, {Daniel P.} and Williams, {Terrie M.}",
note = "Funding Information: Acknowledgments D. Crocker, P. Webb, S. Hayes, J. Burns, and many graduate and undergraduate students provided assistance in the field. The rangers and staff at A{\~n}o Nuevo State Reserve, California State Park were invaluable to the completion of the project. J. Pett-inger and A. Banks provided assistance in the laboratory at the University of California, Santa Cruz; and S. Lang, C. Beck and others provided assistance in the laboratory at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. This project was supported by grants to D.P. Noren from the American Museum of Natural History (Lerner-Gray Fund for Marine Research), Friends of Long Marine Laboratory, and University of California Natural Reserve System (Mildred E. Mathias Graduate Student Research Grant). Further support was provided by National Science Foundation grants to T.M. Williams (OPP-9909862) and to D.P. Costa and M.E. Goebel (OPP-9500072). Grants to S.J. Iverson through the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research council (NSERC) of Canada provided additional support. D.P. Noren was supported in part by NSF grant 9730462 to H. Kibak and D.P. Costa and by a Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need Fellowship, Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC). A portion of this work was performed while D.P. Noren was a National Research Council Postdoctoral Research Associate at the National Marine Mammal Laboratory, Alaska Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Seattle, Washington. All procedures comply with the current laws of the United States of America. Research was approved by the Chancellor{\textquoteright}s Animal Research Committee (UCSC) and conducted under U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service permit 836. Two anonymous reviewers provided constructive comments on the manuscript.",
year = "2013",
month = dec,
doi = "10.1007/s00360-013-0773-0",
language = "English",
volume = "183",
pages = "1065--1074",
journal = "Journal of Comparative Physiology B: Biochemical, Systemic, and Environmental Physiology",
issn = "0174-1578",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
number = "8",
}
