Characterising the gut microbiomes of two baleen whales with different feeding and migratory strategies [PDF]
Animal MicrobiomeBackground Mammalian gut microbiomes are essential for supporting digestion, nutrient absorption and overall host health. While diet and phylogeny are the two main influences on gut microbial composition, other factors, including life history and ...
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A high-resolution 3D reconstructed skeleton of the extinct dwarf whale Cetotherium riabinini from Ukraine [PDF]
Scientific DataCetotheres (family Cetotheriidae) were small-sized extinct baleen whales, likely the smallest among toothless baleen whales. Cetotherium riabinini Hofstein, 1948 is known as a single specimen, the holotype.
Svitozar Davydenko +3 more
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A new Miocene baleen whale from Peru deciphers the dawn of cetotheriids [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2017 Felix G Marx +2 more
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Water Biology and Security, 2022 On January 12, 2011, a very young juvenile Bryde's-like baleen whale was found stranded alive on the east coast of Hainan Island, in the South China Sea. Unfortunately, it died the next morning.
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Assessing the viability of estimating baleen whale abundance from tourist vessels
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023 Many populations of southern hemisphere baleen whales are recovering and are again becoming dominant consumers in the Southern Ocean. Key to understanding the present and future role of baleen whales in Southern Ocean ecosystems is determining their ...
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A new Miocene baleen whale from the Peruvian desert [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2016 Felix G Marx
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Oil adsorption does not structurally or functionally alter whale baleen [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2019 Mysticete whales filter small prey from seawater using baleen, a unique keratinous oral tissue that grows from the palate, from which it hangs in hundreds of serial plates.
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Large-scale spatial variabilities in the humpback whale acoustic presence in the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2020 Southern Hemisphere humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) inhabit a wide variety of ecosystems including both low- and high-latitude areas. Understanding the habitat selection of humpback whale populations is key for humpback whale stock management ...
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Environmental drivers of large-scale movements of baleen whales in the mid-North Atlantic Ocean [PDF]
, 2020 © The Author(s), 2020. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Perez-Jorge, S., Tobena, M., Prieto, R., Vandeperre, F., Calmettes, B., Lehodey, P., & Silva, M.
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The genome of the pygmy right whale illuminates the evolution of rorquals
BMC Biology, 2023 Background Baleen whales are a clade of gigantic and highly specialized marine mammals. Their genomes have been used to investigate their complex evolutionary history and to decipher the molecular mechanisms that allowed them to reach these dimensions ...
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