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Comparative review of entanglement risk assessments for cetacean conservation and management

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Cetacean entanglement in fishing gear remains a major global threat that exposes persistent gaps in how fisheries management frameworks manage risk to nontarget species. Ecological risk assessment (ERA) offers a structured way to link exposure and consequences to an explicit statement of risk, but entanglement risk assessments vary widely in ...
Laura Joan Feyrer, Clair Evers, Hilary Moors‐Murphy   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Accelerated Evolution of Limb-Related Gene Hoxd11 in the Common Ancestor of Cetaceans and Ruminants (Cetruminantia)

G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, 2020
Reduced numbers of carpal and tarsal bones (wrist and ankle joints) are extensively observed in the clade of Cetacea and Ruminantia (Cetruminantia). Homebox D11 (Hoxd11) is one of the important genes required for limb development in mammals. Mutations in
Jun Li, Songyang Shang, Na Fang, Yubo Zhu, Junpeng Zhang, David M. Irwin, Shuyi Zhang, Zhe Wang   +7 more
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The MacBrain Resource Center (MBRC) rhesus macaque postnatal brain histology datasets: Enabling new discoveries through NHP tissue and digital data Repositories

Journal of Anatomy, EarlyView.
The MacBrain Resource Center (MBRC) postnatal rhesus macaque brain histology datasets are organized into Collections that promote cost‐effective de novo research. This article provides examples from Collections 5, 6, and 7 and describes the histo‐ and immunohistochemical (IHC) processing of materials for Collection 6.
Valeria Mendoza‐Silva, Lucy Greene, Emma Burke, Cristina Canales, Julia Chocarro, Jose L. Lanciego, Khuleshwari Kurrey, Phil Barello, Aya Nusir, Nadine Kabbani, Kathleen S. Rockland, Dibyadeep Datta, Jon I. Arellano, Amy F. T. Arnsten, Yury M. Morozov, Bashir Ahmed, Zoltán Molnár, Caroline J. Zeiss, Pasko Rakic, Alvaro Duque   +19 more
wiley   +1 more source

Using Photographs in Fishers’ Ecological Knowledge Research: A Review and Field Study on Small‐Scale Fishers’ Knowledge of Coastal Habitats in the Central Mediterranean Sea

Aquaculture, Fish and Fisheries, Volume 6, Issue 4, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Fishers interact daily with coastal environments, which generate a deep understanding of habitat characteristics, species associations and ecological change. Fishers’ ecological knowledge (FEK) is therefore a critical source of insight for marine science, offering observations that uniquely complement scientific data and, when incorporated ...
Chiara D'Agata, Sieglind Wallner‐Hahn, Wiebren Johannes Boonstra   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

New Skeletons of the Ancient Dolphin Xenorophus sloanii and Xenorophus simplicidens sp. nov. (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Oligocene of South Carolina and the Ontogeny, Functional Anatomy, Asymmetry, Pathology, and Evolution of the Earliest Odontoceti

Diversity, 2023
The early diverging, dolphin-sized, cetacean clade Xenorophidae are a short-lived radiation of toothed whales (Odontoceti) that independently evolved two features long thought to be odontocete synapomorphies: the craniofacial and cochlear morphology ...
Robert W. Boessenecker, Jonathan H. Geisler   +1 more
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pylifemap: Mapping data onto the tree of life

Methods in Ecology and Evolution, Volume 17, Issue 6, Page 1696-1702, June 2026.
Abstract The need to visualize data associated with NCBI Taxonomy Identifiers is growing in various biological fields ranging from comparative genomics to metagenomics and metabarcoding, and even for outreach. No tool today allows visualization of such data while still keeping the full vision of the whole taxonomy, possibly causing a biased view of the
Julien Barnier, Cassandra Bompard, Aurélie Siberchicot, Vincent Navratil, Joaquim Martin, Damien M. de Vienne   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evolutionary and Ecological Determinants of the Phenology of Births in Wild Large Herbivores, a Systematic Review

Mammal Review, Volume 56, Issue 2, June 2026.
This semi‐systematic review supports the two dominant drivers of birth phenology: the seasonality and predation hypotheses. Even though there is evidence of their importance, the effects of female, offspring and population characteristics remain marginally accounted for. Asian and South and Central American species are currently understudied.
Lucie Thel, Christophe Bonenfant, Simon Chamaillé‐Jammes   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Genomic Insights Into the Evolutionary History of Berardius Beaked Whales: Speciation Driven by Resource Specialization, Gigantism and Thermal Barriers?

Molecular Ecology, Volume 35, Issue 12, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Understanding the diversity of our oceans is fundamental now more than ever as climate change and human activities put increasing pressure on marine species and ecosystems. Beaked whales (family Ziphiidae) are among the most poorly understood marine mammals, in part due to their affinity to offshore underwater canyons and prolonged diving ...
Morgan L. McCarthy, Michael V. Westbury, Mark S. Springer, John Gatesy, Morten Tange Olsen, Phillip A. Morin   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Alterations of pleiotropic neuropeptide-receptor gene couples in Cetacea

BMC Biology
Background 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, Miguel Cordeiro, Bernardo Pinto, André Machado, Filipe Alves, Isabel Sousa-Pinto, Raquel Ruivo, L. Filipe C. Castro   +7 more
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Osteological correlates of evolutionary transitions in cetacean feeding and related oropharyngeal functions

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023
Teeth are often the first structures that anatomists and paleontologists examine to understand the ecology and morphology of feeding, both because teeth are highly specialized structures that provide precise information, and because they are among the ...
Alexander J. Werth, Brian L. Beatty
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