The Ancestral Carnivore Karyotype As Substantiated by Comparative Chromosome Painting of Three Pinnipeds, the Walrus, the Steller Sea Lion and the Baikal Seal (Pinnipedia, Carnivora). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Karyotype evolution in Carnivora is thoroughly studied by classical and molecular cytogenetics and supplemented by reconstructions of Ancestral Carnivora Karyotype (ACK).
Violetta R Beklemisheva +6 more
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Characterization of Photobacterium damselae subsp. damselae isolated from a spotted seal (Phoca largha) (Pinnipedia: Phocidae) stranded in Korea [PDF]
Frontiers in Veterinary ScienceIntroductionPhotobacterium damselae subsp. damselae (PDD) is an emerging marine bacterial pathogen that infects marine animals and humans, causing fatal necrotizing fasciitis and histamine fish poisoning.
Tae Seon Cha +13 more
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First Description of the Underwater Sounds in the Mediterranean Monk Seal Monachus monachus in Greece: Towards Establishing a Vocal Repertoire [PDF]
Animals, 2023 The Mediterranean monk seal Monachus monachus is one of the most endangered pinnipeds in the world, and is classified as “Endangered” by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.
Isabelle Charrier +4 more
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Seal finger: a literature review [PDF]
International Journal of Circumpolar HealthSeal finger is a rare zoonotic bacterial infection typically caused by Mycoplasma species, transmitted from seals (Pinnipedia suborder) to humans.
Satyatejas G. Reddy +4 more
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Comprehensive molecular and morphological resolution of blubber stratification in a deep-diving, fasting-adapted seal [PDF]
Frontiers in Physiology, 2022 Blubber is a modified subcutaneous adipose tissue in marine mammals that provides energy storage, thermoregulation, hydrodynamic locomotion, and buoyancy.
J. I. Khudyakov +8 more
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Mediterranean monk seal (Monachus monachus) and leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx) de novo genomes to study the demographic history and genetic diversity of southern seals [PDF]
BMC BiologyBackground The Monachinae, or southern seals, are one of two subfamilies within the Phocidae and are home to iconic pinnipeds such as the leopard seal, a fierce Antarctic top predator, and the Mediterranean monk seal, one of the world’s most endangered ...
Marcel Nebenführ +5 more
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Complete mitochondrial genome of the Antarctic fur seal (Arctocephalus gazella) [PDF]
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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Diversity, 2023 Several factors contributed, over time, to the Mediterranean monk seal’s sharp population decline. Despite the relative disappearance of documented breeding sub-populations, sightings have been collected, in recent decades, from most of the species ...
Luigi Bundone +5 more
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022 Arrays of tidal turbines are being considered for tidally energetic coastal sites which can be important habitat for many species of marine mammal. Understanding risks to marine mammals from collisions with moving turbine blades must be overcome before ...
Douglas Gillespie +3 more
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On Prophoca and Leptophoca (Pinnipedia, Phocidae) from the Miocene of the North Atlantic realm : redescription, phylogenetic affinities and paleobiogeographic implications [PDF]
, 2016 Background: Prophoca and Leptophoca represent the oldest known genera of phocine seals, dating from the latest early to middle Miocene. Originally, Prophoca rousseaui and Prophoca proxima were described based on fragmentary remains from the Miocene of ...
Dewaele, Leonard +2 more
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