My life as an isotope scientist started in 1967, when the enrichment of
15N along a marine food chain in the western North Pacific Ocean was reported in my DS Dissertation. After 46 years, my newest paper which was published in March, 2013 concluded that the ratios of trophic fractionation of carbon and nitrogen isotopes (Δδ
15N/Δδ
13C) throughout marine and terrestrial food chains could be regarded to have similar correlation, expressed with the following linear regression line:
δ15N=1.61δ13C+44.3+ [ecosystem specific constant].
with standard errors of [±0.41] and [±9.7] for the slope and the intercept, respectively. After this long journey of isotope research, I finally reached to a hypothesis on "ISOTOPICALLY ORDERED WORLD" with emphasis on amino acid synthesis, which I will describe in this article.
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