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The early Miocene balaenid Morenocetus parvus from Patagonia (Argentina) and the evolution of right whales [PDF]

PeerJ, 2017
Balaenidae (right and bowhead whales) are a key group in understanding baleen whale evolution, because they are the oldest surviving lineage of crown Mysticeti, with a fossil record that dates back ∼20 million years.
Mónica R. Buono, Marta S. Fernández, Mario A. Cozzuol, José I. Cuitiño, Erich M.G. Fitzgerald   +4 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Cellular Composition of the Brain of a Northern Minke Whale. [PDF]

J Comp Neurol
Avelino‐de‐Souza et al. show that the minke whale has 3.2 billion neurons in the cerebral cortex, as predicted for a generic cetartiodactyl species, which places it and other cetaceans between monkeys and great apes in a ranking of mammal and bird species by total numbers of neurons in the pallium/cerebral cortex.
Avelino-de-Souza K, Patzke N, Karlsson KÆ, Manger PR, Herculano-Houzel S.   +4 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

A record of fossil shallow-water whale falls from Italy [PDF]

, 2014
Twenty-five Neogene-Quaternary whales hosted in Italian museum collections and their associated fauna were analysed for evidence of whale-fall community development in shallow-water settings.
Allison, Amano, Amano, Bellinzona, Bianucci, Bianucci, Bianucci, Bianucci, Bianucci, Bianucci, Bisconti, Bisconti, Bisconti, Borselli, Braby, Britton, Capellini, Capellini, Caretto, Carmignani, Chicchi, Coleman, Cortesi, Dahlgren, Damarco, Dando, Danise, Danise, Danise, Dominici, Dubilier, Esperante, Fergusson, Ferrero, Glover, Glover, Goedert, Goffredi, Higgs, Higgs, Hogler, Kauffman, Kiel, Kiel, Kiel, Kiel, Kubodera, Lancaster, Lundsten, Marshall, Martill, Martill, Martill, Mojetta, Naganuma, Nesbitt, Owen, Pavlyuk, Portis, Pyenson, Reisdorf, Ricci Lucchi, Richardson, Rouse, Rouse, Sahling, Sarti, Scabelli, Schäfer, Shapiro, Smith, Smith, Smith, Smith, Squires, Strobel, Tarasov, Taylor, Thorson, Trevisan, Vai, Warén   +81 more
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A new balaenopterid whale from the late Miocene of the Southern North Sea Basin and the evolution of balaenopterid diversity (Cetacea, Mysticeti) [PDF]

PeerJ, 2019
Background Balaenopterid mysticetes represent the most successful family-rank group of this clade. Their evolutionary history is characterized by a rich fossil record but the origin of the living genera is still largely not understood. Recent discoveries
Michelangelo Bisconti, Dirk K. Munsterman, Klaas Post   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

A phylogenomic analysis of the role and timing of molecular adaptation in the aquatic transition of cetartiodactyl mammals [PDF]

, 2015
This work was funded by the European Research Council (ERC 1076 Starting grant no. 310482) awarded to S.J.R.
Bertelsen, MF, Davies, KTJ, Jarman, S, McGowen, MR, Polanowski, A, Rossiter, SJ, Tsagkogeorga, G   +6 more
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THE OLDEST ESCHRICHTIID MYSTICETE AND A NEW MORPHOLOGICAL DIAGNOSIS OF ESCHRICHTIIDAE (GRAY WHALES)

Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 2006
A close inspection of the dentary of Eschrichtius robustus (Cetacea, Mysticeti, Eschrichtiidae) revealed a peculiar organization of the coronoid region.
MICHELANGELO BISCONTI, ANGELO VAROLA
doaj   +1 more source

Life Expectancy in Marine Mammals Is Unrelated to Telomere Length but Is Associated With Body Size

Frontiers in Genetics, 2021
Marine mammals vary greatly in size and lifespan across species. This study determined whether measures of adult body weight, length and relative telomere length were related to lifespan.
Kittisak Buddhachat, Kittisak Buddhachat, Janine L. Brown, Manthanee Kaewkool, Anocha Poommouang, Patcharaporn Kaewmong, Kongkiat Kittiwattanawong, Korakot Nganvongpanit, Korakot Nganvongpanit   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Crossing the equator: a northern occurrence of the pygmy right whale

Zoological Letters, 2018
Here we document the first stranding record of the pygmy right whale in the Northern Hemisphere—on the coast of The Gambia, Africa (NE Atlantic Ocean, around latitude 13° N)—a location in stark contrast to its current distribution exclusively south of ...
Cheng-Hsiu Tsai, James G. Mead
doaj   +1 more source

Revision of “Balaena” belgica reveals a new right whale species, the possible ancestry of the northern right whale, Eubalaena glacialis, and the ages of divergence for the living right whale species [PDF]

PeerJ, 2017
In 1941, Abel established Balaena belgica based on a series of fused cervical vertebrae and citing other cranial fragments from the late Neogene of the Antwerp harbor (northern Belgium).
Michelangelo Bisconti, Olivier Lambert, Mark Bosselaers   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Mysticeti: Reaching the Limits of Latency with Uncertified DAGs

, 2023
We introduce Mysticeti-C, the first DAG-based Byzantine consensus protocol to achieve the lower bounds of latency of 3 message rounds. Since Mysticeti-C is built over DAGs it also achieves high resource efficiency and censorship resistance. Mysticeti-C achieves this latency improvement by avoiding explicit certification of the DAG blocks and by ...
Babel, Kushal, Chursin, Andrey, Danezis, George, Kichidis, Anastasios, Kokoris-Kogias, Lefteris, Koshy, Arun, Sonnino, Alberto, Tian, Mingwei   +7 more
openaire   +2 more sources