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Communications Biology, 2023 In this study, we investigate how the terrestrial-aquatic transition influenced patterns of axial integration and modularity in response to the secondary adaptation to a marine lifestyle.
Juan Miguel Esteban +5 more
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Ecology and Evolution, 2021 The duration of offspring care is critical to female fitness and population resilience by allowing flexibility in life‐history strategies in a variable environment.
Kelly K. Hastings +4 more
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Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources, 2021 The Japanese sea lion, Zalophus japonicus, is an extinct pinniped species, which had inhabited along the coast of the Japanese archipelago and Korean peninsula.
Eun-Bi Kim +5 more
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Fatal hepatic sarcocystosis in three captive and one free-ranging pinniped
International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife, 2023 Fatal hepatic sarcocystosis was diagnosed as the cause of death in four pinnipeds: two captive Hawaiian monk seals (Monachus schauinslandi), a captive, and a free-ranging California sea lion (Zalophus californianus).
Judy St. Leger +6 more
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Patterns of the fecal microbiota in the Juan Fernández fur seal (Arctocephalus philippii)
MicrobiologyOpen, 2021 As apex predators, pinnipeds are considered to be useful bioindicators of marine and coastal environments. Endemic to a small archipelago in the South Pacific, the Juan Fernandez fur seal (JFFS) is one of the less‐studied members of the pinniped family ...
Constanza Toro‐Valdivieso +4 more
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Studies on the Hemoglobins of Pinnipeds [PDF]
Blood, 1973 Abstract The hemoglobins of seven species of pinnipeds-elephant, ribbon, fur, harbor, and grey seals, walrus, and California sea lion-had two major and one minor hemoglobin fractions on electrophoresis at pH 8.6. One of the major fractions in all seven species had the same electrophoretic mobility.
D R, Lincoln +3 more
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The Underwater Soundscape at Gulf of Riga Marine-Protected Areas
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2021 Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) is widely used as an initial step towards an assessment of environmental status. In the present study, underwater ambient sound recordings from two monitoring locations in marine-protected areas (MPAs) of the Gulf of ...
Muhammad Saladin Prawirasasra +2 more
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Sealpox Virus in Marine Mammal Rehabilitation Facilities, North America, 2007–2009
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2011 Sealpox, a zoonotic disease affecting pinnipeds (seals and sea lions), can occur among captive and convalescing animals. We surveyed 1 worker each from 11 marine mammal centers and interviewed 31 other marine mammal workers to ascertain their knowledge ...
Amira Roess +6 more
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Hunting on the coast: An image gallery of Rompecráneos
Journal of Lithic Studies, 2021 The Rompecráneo is a special kind of lithic artifact which was, presumably, involved in the capture of pinnipeds carried out along the Patagonian coast of Argentina during prehistoric times.
Daniela Soledad Cañete Mastrángelo
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Social associations between California sea lions influence the use of a novel foraging ground [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2017 Social relationships define an individual's position in its social network, which can influence the acquisition and spread of information and behavioural variants through the population. Thus, when nuisance behaviours spread through wildlife populations,
Zachary A. Schakner +5 more
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