Eye lenses contain chronological isotopic records and can be used to create a temporal isotopic history throughout an individual's lifetime. The authors analyzed eye lens amino-acid d15N to address spatio-temporal baseline variability and to reconstruct trophic histories of 10 individual Red Snapper.

bt.wallace.2023

Format

The data frame 166 × 20 contains the following columns:

fish_idcharacterfish number assigned at capture
lamina_layerintegernumber assigned lamina during disection; 1 = eye lens core
laminar_radial_midpointnumericaverage of the two radius measurements(mm) (before and after) taken during eye lens delamination per Wallace et al. (2014)
estimated_Lengthnumericfish standard length estimated at each laminar radial midpoint (cm)
d15nnumericbulk d15N (‰) of lamina
d13cnumericbulk d13C (‰) of lamina
alaninenumericamino acid d15N (‰) of corresponding lamina
glycinenumericamino acid d15N (‰) of corresponding lamina
valinenumericamino acid d15N (‰) of corresponding lamina
leucinenumericamino acid d15N (‰) of corresponding lamina
isoleucinenumericamino acid d15N (‰) of corresponding lamina
threoninenumericamino acid d15N (‰) of corresponding lamina
prolinenumericamino acid d15N (‰) of corresponding lamina
serinenumericamino acid d15N (‰) of corresponding lamina
aspartic_acidnumericamino acid d15N (‰) of corresponding lamina
methioninenumericamino acid d15N (‰) of corresponding lamina
lysinenumericamino acid d15N (‰) of corresponding lamina
glutamic_acidnumericamino acid d15N (‰) of corresponding lamina
phenylalaninenumericamino acid d15N (‰) of corresponding lamina
trophic_positionnumerictrophic position calculated using equation TL=[(Glu-Phe-β)/TDF]+1, where TDF = 5.7 and β = 3.6 (Bradley et al. (2015))

Details

The dataset contains bulk eye-lens stable isotope (d13C and d15N) 10 individual Red Snapper.

Instrument: GC-C-IRMS (gas-chromatography combustion isotope-ratio-mass-spectrometer)

Source

Wallace, A.A., Ellis, G.S., & Peebles, E.B. (2023). Reconstructions of individual fish trophic geographies using isotopic analysis of eye-lens amino acids. PLoS One, 18(3): e0282669 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0282669

Wallace, A. A., Hollander, D. J., & Peebles, E. B. (2014). Stable isotopes in fish eye lenses as potential recorders of trophic and geographic history. PLoS One, 9(10), e108935. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0108935

Bradley, C. J., Wallsgrove, N. J., Choy, C. A., Drazen, J. C., Hetherington, E. D., Hoen, D. K., & Popp, B. N. (2015). Trophic position estimates of marine teleosts using amino acid compound specific isotopic analysis. Limnology and oceanography: Methods, 13(9), 476-493. https://doi.org/10.1002/lom3.10041

Data availability are available at https://digitalcommonsdata.usf.edu/datasets/vhmf7w5zyr

Traversing the paper's information via Semantic Scholar ID 773e2c7b665353bb198f82597997b00d8dac4736 using S2miner package

Author

Liuyong Ding, ly_ding@126.com

Concepts

eye lenses, stable isotope, d13C, d15N, d34S

Examples

### copy data into 'dat'
dat <- bt.wallace.2023
tibble::tibble(dat)
#> # A tibble: 166 × 20
#>    fish_id  lamina_layer laminar_radial_midpoint estimated_Length  d15n  d13c alanine glycine valine
#>    <chr>           <int>                   <dbl>            <dbl> <dbl> <dbl>   <dbl>   <dbl>  <dbl>
#>  1 4-40-002            1                   0.275             2.75 NA     NA      12.4   2.62    17.2
#>  2 4-40-002            2                   0.625             6.25 NA     NA      11.8  -0.135   14.9
#>  3 4-40-002            3                   0.775             7.75  9.57 -17.2    NA    NA       NA  
#>  4 4-40-002            4                   0.9               9     9.70 -17.3    NA    NA       NA  
#>  5 4-40-002            5                   1.02             10.2   9.68 -17.3    NA    NA       NA  
#>  6 4-40-002            6                   1.18             11.8  NA     NA      14.6   2.25    15.7
#>  7 4-40-002            7                   1.38             13.8  10.3  -17.4    NA    NA       NA  
#>  8 4-40-002            8                   1.62             16.2  10.6  -17.8    NA    NA       NA  
#>  9 4-40-002            9                   1.82             18.2  11.2  -18.2    NA    NA       NA  
#> 10 4-40-002           10                   2                20    11.6  -18.4    16.3   0.165   20.5
#> # ℹ 156 more rows
#> # ℹ 11 more variables: leucine <dbl>, isoleucine <dbl>, threonine <dbl>, proline <dbl>, serine <dbl>,
#> #   aspartic_acid <dbl>, methionine <dbl>, lysine <dbl>, glutamic_acid <dbl>, phenylalanine <dbl>,
#> #   trophic_position <dbl>

if (FALSE) {
library(dplyr)
library(ggplot2)

### bulk d15N of lamina
ggplot(data = dat, aes(lamina_layer,d15n))+
  geom_point(aes(colour = fish_id),size = 2, show.legend = F, na.rm = T)+
  facet_grid(fish_id~.,scales = "free_y")+
  xlab("Laminae")+
  ylab(expression(delta * ""^15 * "N" * " (‰)"))+
  scale_x_continuous(breaks = 0:30)+
  theme_bw() +
  theme(
    panel.grid.major = element_blank(), panel.grid.minor = element_blank(),
    panel.background = element_blank(), axis.line = element_line(colour = "black"),
    text = element_text(size = 10), legend.title = element_blank(),
    plot.title = element_text(face = "bold")
  )

### bulk d13C of lamina
ggplot(data = dat, aes(lamina_layer,d13c))+
  geom_point(aes(colour = fish_id),size = 2, show.legend = F, na.rm = T)+
  facet_grid(fish_id~.,scales = "free_y")+
  xlab("Laminae")+
  ylab(expression(delta * ""^13 * "C" * " (‰)"))+
  scale_x_continuous(breaks = 0:30)+
  theme_bw() +
  theme(
    panel.grid.major = element_blank(), panel.grid.minor = element_blank(),
    panel.background = element_blank(), axis.line = element_line(colour = "black"),
    text = element_text(size = 10), legend.title = element_blank(),
    plot.title = element_text(face = "bold")
  )
}