Estimating blue whale skin isotopic incorporation rates and baleen growth rates: Implications for assessing diet and movement patterns in mysticetes. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Stable isotope analysis in mysticete skin and baleen plates has been repeatedly used to assess diet and movement patterns. Accurate interpretation of isotope data depends on understanding isotopic incorporation rates for metabolically active tissues and ...
Geraldine Busquets-Vass +6 more
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Royal Society Open Science, 2021 Baleen from mysticete whales is a well-preserved proteinaceous material that can be used to identify migrations and feeding habits for species whose migration pathways are unknown. Analysis of δ13C and δ15N values from bulk baleen have been used to infer
Philip M. Riekenberg +11 more
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Severe Bone Loss as Part of the Life History Strategy of Bowhead Whales. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 The evolution of baleen constituted a major evolutionary change that made it possible for baleen whales to reach enormous body sizes while filter feeding on tiny organisms and migrating over tremendous distances.
John C George +6 more
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Long-term frequency changes of a potential baleen whale call from the central Indian Ocean during 2002–2019 [PDF]
JASA Express Letters, 2021 The multiple baleen whales of the central Indian Ocean use distinct calls, with their acoustic signatures marking their respective geographic distributions.
Nikita R. Pinto, Tarun K. Chandrayadula
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Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Isotopic analyses of the incrementally growing baleen in Mysticeti have been used to learn about their feeding and movement patterns. Using methods previously applied to Pacific minke whales, stable δ15N and δ13C isotope values were measured along the ...
Dafne Eerkes‐Medrano +2 more
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Case studies on longitudinal mercury content in humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) baleen
Heliyon, 2022 Quantification of contaminant concentrations in baleen whales is important for individual and population level health assessments but is difficult due to large migrations and infrequent resighings.
Carley L. Lowe +8 more
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Lifetime glucocorticoid profiles in baleen of right whale calves: Potential relationships to chronic stress of repeated wounding by Kelp Gulls [PDF]
, 2018 Baleen tissue accumulates stress hormones (glucocorticoids, GC) as it grows, along with other adrenal, gonadal and thyroid hormones. The hormones are deposited in a linear fashion such that a single plate of baleen allows retrospective assessment and ...
Ajó, Alejandro A. Fernández +7 more
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Scaling of swimming performance in baleen whales [PDF]
Journal of Experimental Biology, 2019 The scale-dependence of locomotor factors have long been studied in comparative biomechanics, but remain poorly understood for animals at the upper extremes of body size. Rorqual baleen whales include the largest animals, but we lack basic kinematic data about their movements and behavior below the ocean surface.
William T. Gough +20 more
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Longitudinal progesterone profiles in baleen from female North Atlantic right whales (Eubalaena glacialis) match known calving history [PDF]
, 2016 © The Author(s), 2016. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Conservation Physiology 4 (2016): cow014, doi:10.1093/conphys/cow014.Reproduction of mysticete whales ...
Hunt, Kathleen E. +3 more
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Retrophylogenomics in rorquals indicate large ancestral population sizes and a rapid radiation
Mobile DNA, 2019 Background Baleen whales (Mysticeti) are the largest animals on earth and their evolutionary history has been studied in detail, but some relationships still remain contentious.
Fritjof Lammers +3 more
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