Alterations of pleiotropic neuropeptide-receptor gene couples in Cetacea [PDF]
BMC BiologyBackground Habitat transitions have considerable consequences in organism homeostasis, as they require the adjustment of several concurrent physiological compartments to maintain stability and adapt to a changing environment.
Raul Valente +7 more
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Phylogeny and adaptive evolution of the brain-development gene microcephalin (
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2011 Background Representatives of Cetacea have the greatest absolute brain size among animals, and the largest relative brain size aside from humans. Despite this, genes implicated in the evolution of large brain size in primates have yet to be surveyed in ...
Montgomery Stephen H +3 more
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Back to Water: Signature of Adaptive Evolution in Cetacean Mitochondrial tRNAs. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 The mitochondrion is the power plant of the eukaryotic cell, and tRNAs are the fundamental components of its translational machinery. In the present paper, the evolution of mitochondrial tRNAs was investigated in the Cetacea, a clade of Cetartiodactyla ...
Stefano Montelli +4 more
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Studies of Tasmanian Cetacea. Part IV. Delphinus delphis (the common dolphin) [PDF]
, 1920 The dolphin is common around the Tasmanian coast and in the estuaries of the larger rivers, sometimes ascending them for many miles from the open sea.
Herbert Hedley Scott
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Wild Cetacea Identification using Image Metadata
Journal of Computer Science and Technology, 2017 Identification of individuals in marine species, especially in Cetacea, is a critical task in several biological and ecological endeavours. Most of the times this is performed through human-assisted matching within a set of pictures taken in different ...
Débora Pollicelli +2 more
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Correction to: ‘Rostrum morphology and feeding strategy of the baleen whale indicate that right whales and pygmy right whales became skimmers independently’ (2022), by Tanaka [PDF]
Royal Society Open ScienceYoshihiro Tanaka
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A new diminutive fossil ziphiid from the deep-sea floor off northern Chile and some remarks on the body size evolution and palaeobiogeography of the beaked whales [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2023 The evolutionary history of the beaked whales (Ziphiidae), odontocetes nowadays adapted to deep diving, is well known thanks to a significant fossil record mainly from the deep ocean floors.
Giovanni Bianucci +3 more
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Vestnik MGTU, 2022 This paper describes one of the most acute problem for both environmental companies and fisheries – bycatch of marine mammals caused by bioresource exploitation in the Northwest Atlantic (NWA).
Mishin T. V.
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Animals, 2022 We investigated the relationship between age and body length, and age at sexual maturity of Physeter macrocephalus individuals stranded along the Italian coast.
Nicola Maio +17 more
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PERCEPÇÃO DE ALUNOS DE GRADUAÇÃO SOBRE ECOLOGIA E CONSERVAÇÃO DE CETÁCEOS, FORTALEZA-CE
Holos, 2021 Cetáceos são mamíferos aquáticos que habitam boa parte do globo, e que tornaram-se ameaçadas devido a ações como caças ilegais, poluição e turismo. Com isso, objetivou-se avaliar a percepção de alunos de graduação sobre Ecologia e Conservação de Cetáceos.
Marcos Adelino Almeida Filho +4 more
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