Taxonomic implications of morphometric analysis of earless seal limb bones [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2019 Fossil Phocidae (earless seals) are mostly known from isolated postcranial material, forcing researchers to rely upon humeri and femora for the diagnosis of taxa and reconstruction of phylogeny.
Morgan Churchill, Mark D. Uhen
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Revista Minerva, 2022 Durante el mes de enero de 2021, se tuvo la visita de un “elefante marino del sur” Mirounga leonida [Linnaeus, 1758] en la costa de El Salvador, Océano Pacífico centroamericano, específicamente se observó en la zona occidental entre 15 y 16 de enero en ...
Wilfredo A. López +5 more
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Biogeography and taxonomy of extinct and endangered monk seals illuminated by ancient DNA and skull morphology [PDF]
, 2014 Extinctions and declines of large marine vertebrates have major ecological impacts and are of critical concern in marine environments. The Caribbean monk seal, Monachus tropicalis, last definitively reported in 1952, was one of the few marine mammal ...
Greenwood, A. +7 more
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Unique Short-Faced Miocene Seal Discovered in Grytsiv (Ukraine)
Zoodiversity, 2021 Numerous Miocene fossil terrestrial mammals have been discovered at the Gritsev locality of Ukraine, but this is the first record of a fossil marine mammal found at this site.
S. Rahmat, I. Koretsky
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A late surviving Pliocene seal from high latitudes of the North Atlantic realm: the latest monachine seal on the southern margin of the North Sea [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 Background The family of true seals, the Phocidae, is subdivided into two subfamilies: the southern Monachinae, and the northern Phocinae, following the subfamilies’ current distribution: extant Monachinae are largely restricted to the (sub-)Antarctic ...
Leonard Dewaele +2 more
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Harnessing Population Genomics, Gut Microbiota, and Environmental DNA Surveillance for the Conservation of Chinese Spotted Seals in a Changing World. [PDF]
Ecol EvolMarine mammals are sentinel species for ocean and human health. Multiple anthropogenic and environmental stressors threaten these organisms, particularly China's spotted seals, which have experienced significant decline over the past half‐century. Our review reveals low genetic diversity in Chinese spotted seal populations.
Li S, Li W, Zhang X, Zhou H, Zhan J.
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Prolonged transition time between colostrum and mature milk in a bear, the giant panda, Ailuropoda melanoleuca [PDF]
, 2015 Bears produce the most altricial neonates of any placental mammal. We hypothesized that the transition from colostrum to mature milk in bears reflects a temporal and biochemical adaptation for altricial development and immune protection.
Burchmore, Richard J. S. +9 more
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Complete mitochondrial genome of the Antarctic fur seal (Arctocephalus gazella)
Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources, 2019 The Antarctic fur seal (Arctocephalus gazella) is an abundant Antarctic otariid. Here, we present the complete mitochondrial DNA sequence of this species, which includes 13 protein-coding genes, 22 transfer RNA genes, 2 ribosomal RNA genes, and the ...
Rebecca Nagel +2 more
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Animals, 2022 The level of knowledge on microplastic exposure in marine mammals is limited by the access to dead and alive individuals. Focusing on the Northeast Atlantic area, some studies already confirmed the microplastic presence in free-ranging marine mammals ...
Carolin Philipp +2 more
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Mycoplasma phocidae sp. nov., Isolated from Harbor Seals (Phoca vitulina L.) [PDF]
International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology, 1992 In 1979 and 1980, more than 400 harbor seals (Phoca vitulina) along the New England coast of the United States died of epizootic pneumonia that was attributed to an influenza virus. Six mycoplasma isolates that were recovered from the respiratory tracts of affected seals were investigated and were found to be serologically identical and distinct from ...
H L, Ruhnke, S, Madoff
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