A Targeted Metabolomics Assay to Measure Eight Purines in the Diet of Common Bottlenose Dolphins, Tursiops truncates

Ardente AJ¹, Garrett TJ², Wells RS^1,3, Michael Walsh¹, Smith CR⁴, Colee J⁵ and Richard C Hill^1*

¹College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA, E-mail: hillr@ufl.edu

²Southeast Center for Integrated Metabolomics, Mass Spectrometry Core Laboratory, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA, E-mail: hillr@ufl.edu

³Chicago Zoological Society’s Sarasota Dolphin Research Program, C/O Mote Marine Laboratory, Sarasota, FL, USA, E-mail: hillr@ufl.edu

⁴National Marine Mammal Foundation, San Diego, CA, USA, E-mail: hillr@ufl.edu

⁵Department of Statistics, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA, E-mail: hillr@ufl.edu

^*Corresponding Author: Richard C Hill, Small Animal Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida, 2015 SW 16th Ave., Gainesville, FL 32608, USA, Tel: +13523922235 Email: