Table 1. PNG and Japanese sample information.
| Sampling area and year | ID | Sexa | Age | BMIb | N intakec | Sample typed | Analysese |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Activity | nifH | |||||||
| PNG | ||||||||
| Levani (2012) | L005 | M | 23 | 22.9 | 85.2 | R | ✓ | |
| Levani (2012) | L006 | M | 35 | 22.8 | 89.6 | R | ✓ | |
| Levani (2012) | L015 | M | 20 | 21.2 | 69.6 | R | ✓ | |
| Levani (2013) | V001 | M | 39 | 22.9 | 103.4 | Fro, R | ✓ | |
| Levani (2013) | V004 | M | 22 | 22.7 | 109.6 | Fro, R | ✓ | ✓ |
| Levani (2013) | V009 | M | 35 | 24.3 | 117.2 | Fro, R | ✓ | |
| Levani (2013) | V014 | M | 22 | 26.2 | 67.3 | Fro, R | ✓ | ✓ |
| Levani (2013) | V022 | F | 35 | 27.2 | 87.3 | Fro, R | ✓ | |
| Levani (2013) | V035 | M | 40 | 22.9 | 148.0 | Fro, R | ✓ | ✓ |
| Japanese | ||||||||
| Tokyo (2013) | J001 | M | 44 | 25.1 | 209.1 | Fro, R | ✓ | ✓ |
| Tokyo (2013) | J002 | M | 40 | 21.6 | 183.2 | Fro, R | ✓ | ✓ |
| Tokyo (2014) | J004 | M | 31 | 22.9 | 273.3 | R | ✓ | |
| Tokyo (2014) | J005 | M | 24 | 22.2 | 210.3 | R | ✓ | |
| Tokyo (2016) | N001 | M | 25 | 24.4 | 170.9 | Unfrozen | ✓ | |
| Tokyo (2016) | N002 | M | 23 | 22.7 | 176.4 | Unfrozen | ✓ | |
| Tokyo (2016) | N003 | F | 41 | 19.2 | 250.0 | Unfrozen | ✓ | |
| Tokyo (2016) | N004 | M | 39 | 24.6 | 177.1 | Unfrozen | ✓ | |
| Tokyo (2016) | N005 | F | 38 | 19.7 | 197.6 | Unfrozen | ✓ | |
aM, male; F, female.
bBMI, body mass index, calculated as body weight (kg) per body height (m)2.
cValues are given as total N (mg) per body weight (kg) per day.
dR, preserved in RNAlater; Fro, frozen.
eActivity, 15N2-incorporation and/or acetylene reduction assays; nifH, cloning analysis.