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Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, Volume 2026, Issue 1, 2026.Reports of brucellosis in free‐ranging cetaceans are increasing worldwide, particularly in the Mediterranean Sea. To enhance diagnostic accuracy and epidemiological understanding of cetacean brucellosis in the Western Mediterranean Sea, we analyzed bacteriological, serological, and molecular data from 30 cetaceans belonging to three different species ...
Ignacio Vargas-Castro +15 more
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Conservation Letters, 2019 Effective conservation requires monitoring and pro‐active risk assessments. We studied the effects of at‐sea mortality events (ASMEs) in marine mammals over two decades (1990–2012) and built a risk‐based indicator for the European Union's Marine Strategy
Colin Bouchard +6 more
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Natural History Sciences, 2013 Nel corso di una ricerca sulla vita privata e professionale di Stefano delle Chiaje, lo studio di alcuni documenti ha fatto supporre che la Balenottera Minore esposta nel Museo Zoologico di Napoli fosse quella donata dallo scienziato al Gabinetto di ...
Marielva Torino, Nicola Maio
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Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2020 Aggressive encounters involving cetacean species are widely described in the literature. However, detailed pathological studies regarding lesions produced by these encounters are scarce. From January 2000 to December 2017, 540 cetaceans stranded and were
Raquel Puig-Lozano +11 more
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Selection of reference genes for quantitative RT-PCR studies in striped dolphin () skin biopsies [PDF]
, 2006 Background: Odontocete cetaceans occupy the top position of the marine food-web and are particularly sensitive to the bioaccumulation of lipophilic contaminants.
SPINSANTI, G. +6 more
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First Record of Cetacean Killed in an Artisanal Fish Aggregating Device in the Mediterranean Sea
Animals, 2023 Fish Aggregating Devices (FADs) are anchored floating structures often made with cheap scrapped materials and used to aggregate pelagic fish species under their artificial shadows. Globally, the dangerous impact of FADs is well known.
Valerio Manfrini +2 more
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Mediterranean Gate Sanctuary for the Protection of Cetaceans
Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, Volume 35, Issue 12, December 2025.ABSTRACT The Alboran Sea, located at the western Mediterranean Sea, hosts a diverse and ecologically important cetacean community, including endangered species. However, current marine protected areas (MPAs) in the region are limited in scope, and existing conservation strategies are insufficient to address the wide‐ranging ecological needs of ...
Joan Giménez +2 more
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The use of DNA barcoding to monitor the marine mammal biodiversity along the French Atlantic coast [PDF]
, 2013 International audienceIn the last ten years, 14 species of cetaceans and five species of pinnipeds stranded along the Atlantic coast of Brittany in the North West of France.
Alfonsi, Eric +7 more
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Fishing shapes cetacean population density patterns in the Mediterranean basin
Ecography, Volume 2025, Issue 12, December 2025.Human impacts are forcing species towards marginal and suboptimal portions of their historical ranges. Cetaceans are now under protection, but are still threatened by fishing activities, which reduce fish stocks, alter their feeding behavior, and can cause mortality due to bycatch.
Davide Fundaro' +2 more
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Diversity and Distributions, Volume 31, Issue 12, December 2025.ABSTRACT Aim For several decades, substantial efforts have monitored cetacean distribution and abundance in the western North Pacific. Large‐scale visual‐based line transect surveys have been conducted since the early 1980s, covering almost the entire western North Pacific.
Yu Kanaji, Shiho Furumaki, Hiroko Sasaki
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