Michael,

There is a lab at UNL that routinely does C:N analyses. I'll have to check
on the amino acid analyses. I think a researcher here was doing these routinely.

Glen


At 11:03 AM 1/15/98 -0800, you wrote:
>Dear List members:
>
>We are currently working on a project involving the nutritional ecology of
>extinct bears.  I am concerned that exogenous material may have infiltrated
>the bone matrix; consequently, I'm looking for a lab (commercial or
>otherwise) that has experience analyzing the purity of bone collagen.  As I
>understand it the main assays are C:N ratio and amino acid composition.  I
>have less than 10 samples and it would be easiest to simply send them to the
>"experts" to be done.
>
>Thanks in advance for any information you guys may have.
>
>Michael
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