Table 4. Categories of the top 30 prioritized serum biochemicals, based on random forest regression, that changed in the bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) metabolome due to the modified fish diet.
| Biochemical or Biochemical Group | Placement or numbers in the biochemical importance plot (top 30 compounds) related to the modified diet vs. control groups | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Month 0 | Month 1 | Month 3 | |
| Prioritization placement of OCFAs | |||
| C15:0 | none | 9th | 5th |
| C17:0 | none | 13th | 11th |
| C19:0 | none | 24th | 27th |
| Number of biochemicals in top 30 list | |||
| Amino acids | 7 | 2 | 2 |
| Carbohydrate | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Cofactors and vitamins | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Complex lipids | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Energy | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Lipids | 12 | 25 | 23 |
| - OCFAs and OCFA-containing lipids | 0 | 10 | 9 |
| Nucleotides | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Peptides | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Xenobiotics | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Unknown biochemicals | 5 | 3 | 5 |
| Predictive accuracy of importance plot to group | 50%* | 100% | 100% |
*50% predictive accuracy is equal to random chance