The myodural bridges' existence in the sperm whale. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Recent studies have identified that the myodural bridge (MDB) is located between the suboccipital muscles and cervical dura mater in the posterior atlanto-occipital interspace within humans.
Pei Liu +9 more
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Sperm whale clans and human societies [PDF]
Royal Society Open ScienceSperm whale society is structured into clans that are primarily distinguished by vocal dialects, which may be symbolic markers of clan identity. However, clans also differ in non-vocal behaviour.
Hal Whitehead
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Comparative Analyses Reveal the Genetic Mechanism of Ambergris Production in the Sperm Whale Based on the Chromosome-Level Genome [PDF]
Animals, 2023 Sperm whales are a marine mammal famous for the aromatic substance, the ambergris, produced from its colon. Little is known about the biological processes of ambergris production, and this study aims to investigate the genetic mechanism of ambergris ...
Chuang Zhou +7 more
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Ocean nomads or island specialists? Culturally driven habitat partitioning contrasts in scale between geographically isolated sperm whale populations [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2022 The sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) is a deep-diving cetacean with a global distribution and a multi-leveled, culturally segregated, social structure.
Felicia Vachon +4 more
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A survey of the sperm whale (Physeter catodon) commensal microbiome [PDF]
PeerJ, 2019 Background Mammalian commensal microbiota play important roles in the health of its host. In comparison to terrestrial mammals, commensal microbiota of marine mammals is mainly focused on the composition and function of skin and gut microbiota, with less
Chang Li +12 more
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Characterization of Insulin and Glucagon Genes and Their Producing Endocrine Cells From Pygmy Sperm Whale (Kogia breviceps) [PDF]
Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2020 Insulin and glucagon are hormones secreted by pancreatic β and α cells, respectively, which together regulate glucose homeostasis. Dysregulation of insulin or glucagon can result in loss of blood glucose control, characterized by hyperglycemia or ...
Liyuan Zhao +6 more
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Diet and mitochondrial DNA haplotype of a sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) found dead off Jurong Island, Singapore [PDF]
PeerJ, 2019 Despite numerous studies across the large geographic range of the sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus), little is known about the diet and mitochondrial DNA haplotypes of this strongly female philopatric species in waters off Southeast Asia.
Marcus A.H. Chua +4 more
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The Novel Evolution of the Sperm Whale Genome. [PDF]
Genome Biol Evol, 2017 The sperm whale, made famous by Moby Dick, is one of the most fascinating of all ocean-dwelling species given their unique life history, novel physiological adaptations to hunting squid at extreme ocean depths, and their position as one of the earliest branching toothed whales (Odontoceti).
Warren WC +18 more
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Automatic detection and annotation of eastern Caribbean sperm whale codas [PDF]
Scientific ReportsA key technology for sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) monitoring is the identification of sperm whale communication signals, known as codas. In this paper we present the first automatic coda detector and annotator. The main innovation in our detector
Guy Gubnitsky +4 more
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Anisakid parasite diversity in a pygmy sperm whale, Kogia breviceps (Cetacea: Kogiidae) stranded at the edge of its distribution range in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean [PDF]
ParasiteAnisakid nematodes are a globally distributed group of marine mammal parasites. Kogiid whales, including the pygmy sperm whale Kogia breviceps, host an assemblage of specific anisakid species.
Cipriani Paolo +8 more
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