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Long-term trends of epibionts reflect Mediterranean striped dolphin abundance shifts caused by morbillivirus epidemics. [PDF]

J Anim Ecol
This original research piece demonstrates, through empirical and theoretical modelling approaches, that the epibionts of striped dolphins indicate dolphin abundance shifts caused by epidemics of dolphin morbillivirus (DMV). In addition, we provide the first SIR model to investigate the epidemiology of DMV in western Mediterranean striped dolphins ...
Ten S, Dupont G, Raga JA, Dobson AP, Aznar FJ.   +4 more
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Sex-specific impact of inbreeding on pathogen load in the striped dolphin. [PDF]

Proc Biol Sci, 2020
The impact of inbreeding on fitness has been widely studied and provides consequential inference about adaptive potential and the impact on survival for reduced and fragmented natural populations. Correlations between heterozygosity and fitness are common in the literature, but they rarely inform about the likely mechanisms.
Gkafas GA, de Jong M, Exadactylos A, Raga JA, Aznar FJ, Hoelzel AR.   +5 more
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Alkenones in oceanic odontocetes as a potential proxy of environmental water temperature

Ecological Indicators, 2021
The alkenones C37:2 and C37:3 are produced exclusively by some haptophyte species. Their relative proportion (Uk’37 index) may be used to infer the water temperature where the synthesising haptophyte lived.
Diego Rita, Asunción Borrell, Alex Aguilar   +2 more
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Temporal and geographical changes in the intestinal helminth fauna of striped dolphins, Stenella coeruleoalba, in the western Mediterranean: a long-term analysis (1982 - 2016)

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023
Temporal and geographical changes in the infections of intestinal helminths of striped dolphins, Stenella coeruleoalba were investigated in waters off the Spanish Mediterranean coast based on a sample of 233 dolphins stranded during 1982-2016.
Alicia García-Gallego, Juan Antonio Raga, Natalia Fraija-Fernández, Francisco Javier Aznar   +3 more
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Assessment of the interactions between cetaceans and fisheries at the south of the Cetacean Migration Corridor and neighboring waters (Western Mediterranean)

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022
The Cetacean Migration Corridor is an important marine protected area for cetacean species in the Western Mediterranean, and part of its waters constitute the main fishing grounds for the Valencia region (East Spain) fishing fleet.
Mar Izquierdo-Serrano, Ohiana Revuelta, Raúl Míguez-Lozano, Patricia Gozalbes, David Ruiz-García, Juan Antonio Raga, Jesús Tomás   +6 more
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Stable isotope ecology and interspecific dietary overlap among dolphins in the Northeast Atlantic

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023
Dolphins are mobile apex marine predators. Over the past three decades, warm-water adapted dolphin species (short-beaked common and striped) have expanded their ranges northward and become increasingly abundant in British waters.
Tessa Plint, Mariel T.I. ten Doeschate, Andrew C. Brownlow, Nicholas J. Davison, Georg Hantke, Andrew C. Kitchener, Andrew C. Kitchener, Fred J. Longstaffe, Rona A. R. McGill, Cornelia Simon-Nutbrown, Clayton R. Magill   +10 more
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Understanding the Interactions Between Cetaceans and Other Megafauna With the Albacore Tuna Fishery: A Case Study From the Cyprus’ Pelagic Longline Fishery

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022
Depredation by cetaceans on fisheries is a major issue globally, both in terms of conservation and fisheries economics. The present study conducted in Cyprus, Eastern Mediterranean Sea, aimed to understand the extent, level, and type of cetacean ...
Marios Papageorgiou, Louis Hadjioannou, Louis Hadjioannou, Carlos Jimenez, Carlos Jimenez, Andreas Georgiou, Andreas Georgiou, Antonis Petrou   +7 more
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Luteinized Ovarian Cysts in Mediterranean Striped Dolphins [PDF]

Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 1998
The morbillivirus epizootic during 1990 to 1992 in Mediterranean striped dolphins (Stenella coeruleoalba) off the Mediterranean coast of Spain diminished these populations directly through mortalities, and indirectly through loss of normal fecundity. High levels of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB's) also were detected in stranded animals. In addition to
L, Munson, N, Calzada, S, Kennedy, T B, Sorensen   +3 more
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Post-epizootic chronic dolphin morbillivirus infection in Mediterranean striped dolphins Stenella coeruleoalba [PDF]

Diseases of Aquatic Organisms, 2011
Dolphin morbillivirus (DMV) has caused 2 epizootics with high mortality rates on the Spanish Mediterranean coast, in 1990 and 2006-07, mainly affecting striped dolphins Stenella coeruleoalba. Following the first epizootic unusual DMV infections affecting only the central nervous system of striped dolphins were found, with histological features similar ...
Sara, Soto, Ana, Alba, Llilianne, Ganges, Enric, Vidal, Juan Antonio, Raga, Ferrán, Alegre, Beatriz, González, Pascual, Medina, Irene, Zorrilla, Jorge, Martínez, Alberto, Marco, Mónica, Pérez, Blanca, Pérez, Ana, Pérez de Vargas Mesas, Rosa, Martínez Valverde, Mariano, Domingo   +15 more
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The Social Role of Vocal Complexity in Striped Dolphins [PDF]

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2020
Many gregarious species require complex patterns of communication for maintaining coordinated behaviors, articulated social structure and group cohesion. In mammal species, social complexity has been considered the driving force for the development of advanced acoustic communication systems.
Elena Papale, Elena Papale, Carmelo Fanizza, Giuseppa Buscaino, Maria Ceraulo, Giulia Cipriano, Roberto Crugliano, Rosario Grammauta, Martina Gregorietti, Vito Renò, Pasquale Ricci, Pasquale Ricci, Francesca C. Santacesaria, Rosalia Maglietta, Roberto Carlucci, Roberto Carlucci   +15 more
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