phrieken
@phrieken.bsky.social
PhD in biogeochemistry, stable isotope enthusiast, and beer judge.
🧬 New study teases apart how parasites “tap into” host metabolism using nitrogen isotope profiling. A cestode parasite shows just ~0.5 ‰ trophic shift from its host’s liver—revealing surprisingly direct nutrient assimilation.
#Ecology #Parasites #Isotopes
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#Ecology #Parasites #Isotopes
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
October 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
🧬 New study teases apart how parasites “tap into” host metabolism using nitrogen isotope profiling. A cestode parasite shows just ~0.5 ‰ trophic shift from its host’s liver—revealing surprisingly direct nutrient assimilation.
#Ecology #Parasites #Isotopes
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#Ecology #Parasites #Isotopes
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📣 New paper alert!
Parasites are everywhere, but we still do not fully understand where they fit in food webs. So, to speed up our understanding we built the largest global database of stable isotope values for host-parasite pairs ever compiled! 🪱🦈🦆
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Parasites are everywhere, but we still do not fully understand where they fit in food webs. So, to speed up our understanding we built the largest global database of stable isotope values for host-parasite pairs ever compiled! 🪱🦈🦆
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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April 15, 2025 at 12:38 PM
📣 New paper alert!
Parasites are everywhere, but we still do not fully understand where they fit in food webs. So, to speed up our understanding we built the largest global database of stable isotope values for host-parasite pairs ever compiled! 🪱🦈🦆
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Parasites are everywhere, but we still do not fully understand where they fit in food webs. So, to speed up our understanding we built the largest global database of stable isotope values for host-parasite pairs ever compiled! 🪱🦈🦆
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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🎉New paper🚩🚩 in TrAC an analytical chemistry review of the methods for analysis of amino acids via GC-C and LC-IRMS. Fairly comprehensive overview of the methods put out by Shaista Khaliq as part of her PhD project.
Collaboration between:
@unidue.bsky.social
NIOZ
Collaboration between:
@unidue.bsky.social
NIOZ
November 15, 2024 at 6:55 PM
🎉New paper🚩🚩 in TrAC an analytical chemistry review of the methods for analysis of amino acids via GC-C and LC-IRMS. Fairly comprehensive overview of the methods put out by Shaista Khaliq as part of her PhD project.
Collaboration between:
@unidue.bsky.social
NIOZ
Collaboration between:
@unidue.bsky.social
NIOZ