土姫虫のつぶやき　muttering of a proturologist

Proturaの食性に関する論文が公表された． 

Protura are unique: first evidence of specialized feeding on ectomycorrhizal fungi in soil invertebrates

by Sarah L. Bluhm, Anton M. Potapov, Julia Shrubovych, Silke Ammerschubert, Andrea Polleand Stefan Scheu1

in BMC Ecol (2019) 19:10

https://doi.org/10.1186/s12898-019-0227-y

3つの手法に依る解析

pulse labelling (of tree seedlings to investigate the incorporation of root-derived C and N.)

neutral lipid fattyu acid (NLFA) 

natural variation in stable isotope ratios