Whale and porpoise voices : a phonograph record [PDF]
Includes accompanying booklet and image of record jacketThe vocal sounds of cetaceans are a little known and even less understood feature of the complex adaptation of these animals, whose ancestors lived on the dry land, to an entirely aquatic ...
Schevill, William E. +1 more
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Whale Vision: A tool for identifying sperm whales and other cetaceans by their flank or fluke
The Mediterranean sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) is classified as endangered, and effective conservation strategies require accurate knowledge of individual whales’ movements and behaviours.
Sammie Fuller +4 more
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A small sperm whale (Cetacea: Odontoceti, Physeteridae) from the Miocene of Antwerp [PDF]
In the summer of 1967 during the construction of the circular highway in the city of Antwerp (Belgium) the fossil remains of a small physeterid whale were discovered.
Monteiro, H., Peters, N.
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Accurate Reconstruction of Molecular Phylogenies for Proteins Using Codon and Amino Acid Unified Sequence Alignments (CAUSA) [PDF]
Based on molecular clock hypothesis, and neutral theory of molecular evolution, molecular phylogenies have been widely used for inferring evolutionary history of organisms and individual genes.
Chandra Sekhar Pedamallu +7 more
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Abundance of cetaceans in the oceanic northern Gulf of Mexico from 2003 and 2004 ship surveys [PDF]
The Gulf of Mexico (GMx) is a subtropical marginal sea of the western North Atlantic Ocean with a diverse cetacean community. Ship-based, line-transect abundance surveys were conducted in oceanic waters (>200 m deep) of the northern GMx within U.S ...
Mullin, Keith D.
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PCR-based sex determination of cetaceans and dugong from the Indian seas [PDF]
A sex-determination technique based on PCR amplifi- cation of genomic DNA extracted from the skin tissue has been standardized in cetaceans and dugong sam-pled from the Indian seas. A Y-chromosome-specific region (SRY or Sex-determining Y-chromosome gene)
Anoop, B, Jayasankar, P, Rajagopalan, M
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En el tomo III de la Description physique de la Republique Argentine (Buenos Aires 1879) el Dr. Germán Burmeister, cuyo reciente fallecimiento deploramos, ha dado la siguiente nómina de los Cetáceos que habitan las costas de la República y cuyos restos ...
Francisco P. Moreno
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Patterns of enrichment and acceleration in evolutionary rates of promoters suggest a role of regulatory regions in cetacean gigantism. [PDF]
Silva FA +3 more
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Exposición de cetáceos a contaminantes ambientales con actividad hormonal en el Atlántico
El objetivo de este trabajo fue determinar los niveles de varios compuestos con actividad hormonal en mamíferos marinos residentes en las Islas Canarias.
M. Carballo +6 more
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Analysis of sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) vocalisa
Os cachalotes são cetáceos cosmopolitas, demonstrando possuir uma estrutura social altamente complexa e vocalizações sofisticadas. Essas vocalizações, compostas quase inteiramente de sons de cliques, não são usadas apenas para alimantação em grandes profundidades, mas também para executar todas as outras funções da sua vida.
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