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76
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Overview

Marilyn L. Fogel was affiliated with the University of California, Riverside in the United States. Their research spanned multiple fields, with a strong focus on Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Within these domains, they published extensively across several subfields including Ecology, Molecular Biology, Paleontology, Oceanography, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The scientist contributed to topics such as isotope analysis in ecology, metabolomics and mass spectrometry studies, microbial community ecology and physiology, fish ecology and management studies, geochemistry and elemental analysis, gut microbiota and health, and diet and metabolism studies.

Marilyn L. Fogel's research output included papers published in a range of scientific venues. Some of the prominent journals in which they published include Frontiers in Microbiology, Freshwater Biology, UNC Libraries, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, and Functional Ecology.

Recent papers authored by Marilyn L. Fogel covered diverse themes and were published over recent years. Selected examples include:

  • Isotopic and genetic methods reveal the role of the gut microbiome in mammalian host essential amino acid metabolism, 2020, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Amino acid δ13C fingerprints of nearshore marine autotrophs are consistent across broad spatiotemporal scales: An intercontinental isotopic dataset and likely biochemical drivers, 2022, Functional Ecology
  • Effect of Cover Crop on Carbon Distribution in Size and Density Separated Soil Aggregates, 2020, Soil Systems
  • Organic diagenesis in stromatolitic dolomite and chert from the late Palaeoproterozoic McLeary Formation, 2021, Precambrian Research
  • Molecular exploration of fossil eggshell uncovers hidden lineage of giant extinct bird, 2023, Nature Communications

The scientist collaborated frequently with other researchers. Frequent coauthors included B. J. Nakamoto, Seth D. Newsome, Carson A. Jeffres, Christina J. Bradley, and Cristina Takacs-Vesbach. These partnerships are reflected in the range of interdisciplinary studies and diverse topics Marilyn L. Fogel engaged with throughout their career.

Best Publications

  • Depletion of 13 C in lignin and its implications for stable carbon isotope studies

    Ronald Benner;Marilyn L. Fogel;E. Kent Sprague;Robert E. Hodson

  • The Effects of Sample Treatment and Diagenesis on the Isotopic Integrity of Carbonate in Biogenic Hydroxylapatite

    Paul L. Koch;Noreen Tuross;Marilyn L. Fogel

  • Isotope Fractionation during Primary Production

    Marilyn L. Fogel;Luis A. Cifuentes

  • Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope biogeochemistry in the Delaware estuary

    L. A. Cifuentes;J. H. Sharp;Marilyn L. Fogel

  • The Provenances of Asteroids, and Their Contributions to the Volatile Inventories of the Terrestrial Planets

    C. M. O’D. Alexander;R. Bowden;M. L. Fogel;K. T. Howard;K. T. Howard

  • The isotopic composition of carbon and nitrogen in individual amino acids isolated from modern and fossil proteins

    P. Edgar Hare;Marilyn L. Fogel;Thomas W. Stafford;Alva D. Mitchell

  • Isotopic fractionation of nitrogen and carbon in the synthesis of amino acids by microorganisms

    Stephen A. Macko;Marilyn L. Fogel;P.E. Hare;T.C. Hoering

  • The origin and evolution of chondrites recorded in the elemental and isotopic compositions of their macromolecular organic matter

    C.M.O’D. Alexander;M. Fogel;H. Yabuta;G.D. Cody

  • Photosynthetic Fractionation of the Stable Isotopes of Oxygen and Carbon.

    Robert D. Guy;Marilyn L. Fogel;Joseph A. Berry

  • Ecosystem collapse in pleistocene australia and a human role in megafaunal extinction

    Gifford H. Miller;Marilyn L. Fogel;John W. Magee;Michael K. Gagan

  • Pleistocene Extinction of Genyornis newtoni: Human Impact on Australian Megafauna

    Gifford H. Miller;John W. Magee;Beverly J. Johnson;Marilyn L. Fogel

  • Extraterrestrial nucleobases in the Murchison meteorite

    Zita Martins;Oliver Botta;Oliver Botta;Marilyn L. Fogel;Mark A. Sephton

  • Nitrogen-isotope compositions of metasedimentary rocks in the Catalina Schist, California: Implications for metamorphic devolatilization history

    Gray E. Bebout;Marilyn L. Fogel

  • A food web analysis of the juvenile blue crab, Callinectes sapidus, using stable isotopes in whole animals and individual amino acids

    Matthew S. Fantle;Ana I. Dittel;Sandra M. Schwalm;Charles E. Epifanio

  • Using stable isotopes to investigate individual diet specialization in California sea otters (Enhydra lutris nereis)

    Seth D. Newsome;M. Tim Tinker;Daniel H. Monson;Olav T. Oftedal

  • Unique Meteorite from Early Amazonian Mars: Water-Rich Basaltic Breccia Northwest Africa 7034

    Carl B. Agee;Nicole V. Wilson;Francis M. McCubbin;Karen Ziegler

  • Renewable and nonrenewable resources: Amino acid turnover and allocation to reproduction in Lepidoptera

    Diane M. O'Brien;Marilyn L. Fogel;Carol L. Boggs

  • Diagenesis of belowground biomass of Spartina alterniflora in salt-marsh sediments

    Ronald Benner;Marilyn L. Fogel;E. Kent Sprague

  • Variability in the preservation of the isotopic composition of collagen from fossil bone

    Noreen Tuross;Marilyn L Fogel;P.E Hare

  • Isotope fractionation associated with ammonium uptake by a marine bacterium

    Matthew P. Hoch;Marilyn L. Fogel;David L. Kirchman

  • Isotopic Tracking of Change in Diet and Habitat Use in African Elephants

    Paul L. Koch;Jennifer Heisinger;Cynthia Moss;Richard W. Carlson

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew Steele
Andrew Steele Carnegie Institution for Science
Seth D. Newsome
Seth D. Newsome University of New Mexico
George D. Cody
George D. Cody Carnegie Institution for Science
Gifford H. Miller
Gifford H. Miller University of Colorado Boulder
Dominic Papineau
Dominic Papineau University College London
David M. Baker
David M. Baker University of Hong Kong
Matthew J. Wooller
Matthew J. Wooller University of Alaska Fairbanks
Conel M. O'd. Alexander
Conel M. O'd. Alexander Carnegie Institution for Science
Liane G. Benning
Liane G. Benning Freie Universität Berlin
Asmeret Asefaw Berhe
Asmeret Asefaw Berhe University of California, Merced

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