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Relationship between nitrogen and carbon stable isotope effects and their sustainable food chains in marine ecosystems

Research Project

Project/Area Number 18K19862
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Exploratory)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Review Section Medium-sized Section 63:Environmental analyses and evaluation and related fields
Research InstitutionJapan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology

Principal Investigator

Aita Maki  国立研究開発法人海洋研究開発機構, 地球環境部門(地球表層システム研究センター), グループリーダー (90463091)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) 石井 励一郎  総合地球環境学研究所, 研究基盤国際センター, 准教授 (40390710)
Project Period (FY) 2018-06-29 – 2023-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2022)
Budget Amount *help
¥6,240,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,440,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥3,770,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥870,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥2,470,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥570,000)
Keywords同位体効果 / アミノ酸組成 / 窒素・炭素安定同位体比 / 同位体濃縮 / 代謝理論モデル / マイワシ / カタクチイワシ / 給餌実験 / 食物連鎖 / 海洋生態系
Outline of Final Research Achievements

To understand the mechanism of "fluctuation" in various isotope effects occurring in the organisms' bodies, we conducted feeding experiments on Japanese sardines and anchovies using food with known carbon and nitrogen stable isotope ratios. As a result, we succeeded in capturing the process in which the isotope ratio of the ovary increased as yolk formation progressed. In contrast, isotope ratios of the muscle and liver did not change. From this fact, we speculated that wild Japanese sardines accumulate nutrients in their muscles during their migration from the foraging grounds to the spawning grounds, where they efficiently and stably distribute as well as utilize the accumulated nutrition along with the ingested nutrition to the gonads to form the ovaries.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

海域規模の海水温の変動と小型浮魚類の数十年規模の変動が密接に関連していることは知られているが、自然界の代謝系の機能的適応戦略、特に加入量の予測に不可欠な産卵親魚群の繁殖能力に関する理論的・実験的な検証は未だ十分ではない。本研究で捉えた代謝系ダイナミクスについて、今後、アミノ酸レベルまで解明し、規格化することができれば、代謝ダイナミクスの解明を通じて、生物生理学研究の発展のみならず、水産海洋学分野においては新たな資源管理方策の提示・導入などにも貢献できると考えられる。

Report

(6 results)
  • 2022 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2021 Research-status Report
  • 2020 Research-status Report
  • 2019 Research-status Report
  • 2018 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (4 results)

All 2022 2021 2019

All Journal Article (1 results) Presentation (3 results)

  • [Journal Article] 安定同位体比で食物連鎖を紐解く2022

    • Author(s)
      野口(相田)真希
    • Journal Title

      Bulletin of the Plankton Society of Japan

      Volume: 69 Issue: 1 Pages: 49-50

    • DOI

      10.24763/bpsj.69.1_49

    • ISSN
      0387-8961, 2434-0839
    • Year and Date
      2022-02-25
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] 魚類の成長に伴う臓器の窒素同位体変動に関する代謝モデル2022

    • Author(s)
      石井励一郎、野口(相田)真希
    • Organizer
      日本生態学会第69回全国大会
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] 安定同位体比で食物連鎖を紐解く2021

    • Author(s)
      野口真希
    • Organizer
      プランクトン学会シンポジウム、次世代プランクトン研究を開拓する新技術・方法論
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] 炭素・窒素同位体比からみた海の食物連鎖2019

    • Author(s)
      野口(相田)真希、田所和明
    • Organizer
      白鳳丸30周年記念世界一周航海(HEAW30) へ向けた 研究戦略会議
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report

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