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Environmental DNA Documents Ecosystem‐Wide Biodiversity Within the Marine Protected Area Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary

Environmental DNA, Volume 7, Issue 3, May–June 2025.
Three marker genes targeting prokaryotic, eukaryotic, and vertebrate diversity were used to assess biodiversity within Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary. High levels of biodiversity were seen across the sampled area, with distinct communities across surface water, bottom water, and sediment.
Jennifer M. Polinski, Emma L. Strand, Timothy P. O'Donnell, Tammy L. Silva, David N. Wiley, Matthew J. Harke   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Circumpolar Population Structure, Diversity and Recent Evolutionary History of the Bearded Seal in Relation to Past and Present Icescapes

Molecular Ecology, Volume 34, Issue 4, February 2025.
ABSTRACT The Arctic environment plays a critical role in the global climate system and marine biodiversity. The region's ice‐covered expanses provide essential breeding and feeding grounds for a diverse assemblage of marine species, who have adapted to thrive in these harsh conditions and consequently are under threat from global warming.
Morgan L. McCarthy, Alba Refoyo Martínez, Steven H. Ferguson, Aqqalu Rosing‐Asvid, Rune Dietz, Binia De Cahsan, Lennart Schreiber, Eline D. Lorenzen, Rikke Guldborg Hansen, Raphaela Stimmelmayr, Anna Bryan, Lori Quakenbush, Christian Lydersen, Kit M. Kovacs, Morten Tange Olsen   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Characterization of pinniped vibrissal type and number

Marine Mammal Science, Volume 41, Issue 1, January 2025.
Abstract Pinnipeds have vibrissae with which they can explore their environment. Two vibrissal parameters that differ in pinnipeds are shape and number. Regarding shape, most phocids have undulated vibrissae, whereas the vibrissae of a few phocids, all otariids and walruses are smooth.
Katharina Morgenthal, Yvonne Krüger, Tracey Rogers, Guido Dehnhardt, Frederike D. Hanke   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

MLVA-16 typing of 295 marine mammal Brucella isolates from different animal and geographic origins identifies 7 major groups within Brucella ceti and Brucella pinnipedialis

BMC Microbiology, 2009
Background Since 1994, Brucella strains have been isolated from a wide range of marine mammals. They are currently recognized as two new Brucella species, B. pinnipedialis for the pinniped isolates and B.
Jacques Isabelle, Al Dahouk Sascha, Djønne Berit, Ramisse Françoise, Tryland Morten, Foster Geoffrey, Le Flèche Philippe, Maquart Marianne, Neubauer Heinrich, Walravens Karl, Godfroid Jacques, Cloeckaert Axel, Vergnaud Gilles   +12 more
doaj   +1 more source

Status of the Hooded Seal, Cystophora cristata, in Canada

The Canadian field-naturalist, 1997
(Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
openaire   +1 more source

An unsual record of Hooded seal (Cystophora cristata) in SW Spain

, 1988
(Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
Ibáñez, Carlos, Delibes, M., Castroviejo, Javier, Martín, Rosalía, Beltrán, Juan F., Moreno, Sacramento   +5 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Geographical Distribution of Carnivore Hosts and Genotypes of Canine Distemper Virus (CDV) Worldwide: A Scoping Review and Spatial Meta‐Analysis

Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, Volume 2025, Issue 1, 2025.
Background: Emerging viral diseases are spreading to new geographic locations, influenced by human activities and climate change. Morbillivirus canis (also known as canine distemper virus, CDV), the etiological agent of CD, is distributed worldwide and shared between wild and domestic animals.
A. Wipf, P. Perez-Cutillas, N. Ortega, A. Huertas-López, C. Martínez-Carrasco, M. G. Candela, Abdelfattah Selim   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Multidecadal shifts in hooded seal dive behaviour in a changing ocean

Arctic Science
The high northern latitudes are warming rapidly, reducing sea ice coverage and altering salinity regimes, with widespread ecosystem-level consequences. Although horizontal range shifts of marine animals under climate change are well documented, long-term
Andrea Mendez-Bye, Tiphaine Jeanniard-du-Dot, Xavier Bordeleau, Jade Vacquié-Garcia, Nadège Fonvieille, Mike O. Hammill, Garry Stenson, Ruth Joy   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Dive descent rate as a buoyancy indicator to infer body condition of Weddell seals in the Antarctic

Marine Mammal Science, Volume 40, Issue 4, October 2024.
Abstract Changes in buoyancy of marine mammals can be used to infer environmental changes. In multiple seal species, how “fast” an animal sinks reveals body condition changes through shifts in buoyancy as the ratio between lean and lipid tissue changes.
Chuanji Yong, Robert Harcourt, Clive R. McMahon, Daniel P. Costa, Luis A. Huckstadt, Mark Hindell, Ian Jonsen   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pinnipeds in New York (1996–2021) are stranding less frequently but human interaction cases are increasing

NAMMCO Scientific Publications
Every year pinnipeds from five different species—gray (Halichoerus grypus), harbour (Phoca vitulina), harp (Pagophilus groenlandicus), hooded (Cystophora cristata), and ringed (Pusa hispida) seals—haul out on New York’s beaches.
Maxine Montello, Wendy McFarlane, Meghan Rickard, Joseph Warren   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source