Fig. 6.

Change in brain (A), liver (B), and adipose (C) δ¹³C_DHA signatures following the dietary switch from mice equilibrated to the DHA diet. Changes in carbon isotope ratios for the ALA diet group were fit with a one-phase decay function on untransformed data (n = 3–5 per time point). Carbon isotope ratios from the ALA + DHA group were not adequately modeled by a one-phase decay function and were instead fit by linear regression; slopes from linear regression analyses from all tissues did not deviate from zero (P > 0.05). ALA, α-linolenic acid; VPDB, Vienna Peedee Belemnite.