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Do pingers cause stress in fish? An experimental tank study with European sardine, Sardina pilchardus (Walbaum, 1792) (Actinopterygii, Clupeidae), exposed to a 70 kHz dolphin pinger [PDF]

, 2014
Date of acceptance: 06/12/2014 Acknowledgments The study was funded by the Portuguese Ministry of Science (Fundac¸a˜o para a Cieˆncia e Tecnologia– FCT) through a PhD Grant of SG (SFRH/BD/47931/2008).
Begona Santos, M., Costas Costas, Damian, Goetz, Sabine, Gonzalez Villanueva, Antonio, Pierce, Graham John, Vingada, Jose   +5 more
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Harbor Porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) Reaction to a 3D Seismic Airgun Survey in the North Sea

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2020
The most common cetacean in the North Sea is the harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena). Underwater noise is increasingly recognized as a source of impact on the marine environment and seismic airguns were one of the first man-made high intensity sound ...
Joanna Sarnocińska, Jonas Teilmann, Jeppe Dalgaard Balle, Floris M. van Beest, Matthieu Delefosse, Jakob Tougaard   +5 more
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Estimating abundance of an elusive cetacean in a complex environment: Harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) in inland waters of Southeast Alaska

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022
The harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) is common in temperate waters of the eastern North Pacific Ocean, including Southeast Alaska inland waters, a complex environment comprised of open waterways, narrow channels, and inlets.
Alexandre N. Zerbini, Alexandre N. Zerbini, Kimberly T. Goetz, Karin A. Forney, Karin A. Forney, Charlotte Boyd, Charlotte Boyd   +6 more
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Comparative Analysis of Blood Transcriptome in the Yangtze Finless Porpoise (Neophocaena asiaeorientalis)

Fishes, 2022
The Yangtze finless porpoise (Neophocaena asiaeorientalis) is the sole freshwater subspecies of Neophocaenaphocaenoides, and there is a lack of data on its transcriptome.
Di-An Fang, Kai Liu, Dong-Po Xu, Yin-Ping Wang, Pao Xu   +4 more
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Phylogeny and adaptive evolution of the brain-development gene microcephalin (MCPH1) in cetaceans. [PDF]

, 2011
BACKGROUND: Representatives of Cetacea have the greatest absolute brain size among animals, and the largest relative brain size aside from humans. Despite this, genes implicated in the evolution of large brain size in primates have yet to be surveyed in ...
Clark, Clay, Gatesy, John, McGowen, Michael R, Montgomery, Stephen H   +3 more
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Finless Porpoise Bycatch and Stranding along the Shandong Peninsula, China, Based on Public Reports from 2000 to 2018

Animals, 2023
The Shandong Peninsula is located on the western coast of the Pacific and is adjacent to the Bohai Sea (BS) and the Yellow Sea (YS) to the east. The East Asian finless porpoise Neophocaena asiaeorientalis sunameri, a subspecies of the narrow-ridged ...
Tao Zuo, Yongtao Li, Zhaolong Cheng, Jun Wang, Jianqiang Sun, Wei Yuan, Mingxiang Niu   +6 more
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Hydromechanics of swimming propulsion. Part 2. Some optimum shape problems [PDF]

, 1971
The optimum shape problems considered in this part are for those profiles of a two-dimensional flexible plate in time-harmonic motion that will minimize the energy loss under the condition of fixed thrust and possibly also under other isoperimetric ...
Wu, T. Yao-Tsu
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An evolutionary divergent pestivirus lacking the Npro gene systemically infects a whale species

Emerging Microbes and Infections, 2019
Pestiviruses typically infect members of the order Artiodactyla, including ruminants and pigs, although putative rat and bat pestiviruses have also been described. In the present study, we identified and characterized an evolutionary divergent pestivirus
Wendy K. Jo, Cornelis van Elk, Marco van de Bildt, Peter van Run, Monique Petry, Sonja T. Jesse, Klaus Jung, Martin Ludlow, Thijs Kuiken, Albert Osterhaus   +9 more
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Hardly seen, often heard: acoustic presence of harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) in one of the most urbanised estuaries in the world

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023
The New York-New Jersey (NY-NJ) Harbour Estuary and surrounding waters support the largest port along the U.S. East Coast, commercial and recreational fishing, and a burgeoning offshore wind energy industry.
Melinda L. Rekdahl, Sarah G. Trabue, Sarah G. Trabue, Carissa D. King-Nolan, Samantha Strindberg, Howard C. Rosenbaum, Howard C. Rosenbaum   +6 more
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Dating the Cryptococcus gattii Dispersal to the North American Pacific Northwest. [PDF]

, 2018
The emergence of Cryptococcus gattii, previously regarded as a predominantly tropical pathogen, in the temperate climate of the North American Pacific Northwest (PNW) in 1999 prompted several questions.
Bodo Wanke, Chandler C. Roe, Colleen Lysen, Crystal M. Hepp, David M. Engelthaler, David P. Overy, Emilio DeBess, George R. Thompson, Hanna Oltean, J. Andrew Alspaugh, Jolene Bowers, Philippe J. Dufresne, Scott McBurney, Shawn R. Lockhart, Tom Chiller, Wieland Meyer   +15 more
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