Marine Mammal Sci (2007)
(...) Impairment of immune function and inflammatory incidences in marine mammals are generally difficult to detect (King et al. 1996, Zeneto-Savin et al. 1997, Funke et al. 2003). Therefore, markers…
Morphological and genetic differentiation of the Black Sea harbour porpoise Phocoena phocoena
Viaud-Martínez, K. A.; Martínez Vergara, M.; Gol'din, P. E.; Ridoux, V.; Öztürk, A. A.; Öztürk, B.; Rosel, P. E.; Frantzis, A.; Komnenou, A.; Bohonak, A. J.
Marine Ecology Progress Series (2007)
The ecological and conservation status of the geographically isolated Black Sea harbour porpoise is currently unknown. Although it has been suggested that Black Sea harbour porpoises are distinct from other…
Modeling the detection range of fish by echolocating bottlenose dolphins and harbor porpoises
Au, Whitlow W. L.; Benoit-Bird, Kelly J.; Kastelein, Ronald A.
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (2007)
The target strength as a function of aspect angle were measured for four species of fish using dolphin-like and porpoise-like echolocation signals. The polar diagram of target strength values measured…
Prey occurrence in the stomach contents of four small cetacean species in Peru
García-Godos, I.; Van Waerebeek, K.; Reyes, J. C.; Alfaro-Shigueto, J.; Arias-Schreiber, M.
Lat. Am. J. Aquat. Mamm. (2007)
The diets of long-beaked common dolphins Delphinus capensis (n=117), dusky dolphins Lagenorhynchus obscurus (n=72), Burmeister's porpoises Phocoena spinipinnis (n=69) and offshore common bottlenose dolphins Tursiops truncatus (n=22) were determined based…
Microparasites and their potential impact on the population dynamics of small cetaceans from South America: A brief review
Van Bressem, Marie-Françoise; Raga, Juan Antonio; Barrett, Thomas; Siciliano, Salvatore; Di Beneditto, Ana Paula; Crespo, Enrique; Van Waerebeek, Koen
Scientific Committee Meeting Documents (2007)
We briefly review the pathology, epidemiology and molecular biology of cetacean viruses (including morbilli, papilloma and pox) and Brucella spp. encountered in South America. Antibodies against cetacean morbillivirus were detected…
Genital warts in Burmeister’s porpoises: Characterization of Phocoena spinipinnis papillomavirus type 1 (PsPV-1) and evidence for a second, distantly related PsPV
Van Bressem, M.-F.; Cassonnet, P.; Rector, A.; Desaintes, C.; Van Waerebeek, K.; Alfaro-Shigueto, J.; Van Ranst, M.; Orth, G.
Journal of General Virology (2007)
We identified sequences from two distantly related papillomaviruses in genital warts from two Burmeister's porpoises, including a PV antigen-positive specimen, and characterized Phocoena spinipinnis papillomavirus type 1 (PsPV-1). The PsPV-1…
Rise of oceanographic barriers in continuous populations of a cetacean: the genetic structure of harbour porpoises in Old World waters
Fontaine, Michaël C; Baird, Stuart JE; Piry, Sylvain; Ray, Nicolas; Tolley, Krystal A; Duke, Sarah; Birkun, Alexei; Ferreira, Marisa; Jauniaux, Thierry; Llavona, Ángela; Öztürk, Bayram; A Öztürk, Ayaka; Ridoux, Vincent; Rogan, Emer; Sequeira, Marina; Siebert, Ursula; Vikingsson, Gísli A; Bouquegneau, Jean-Marie; Michaux, Johan R
BMC Biology (2007)
Understanding the role of seascape in shaping genetic and demographic population structure is highly challenging for marine pelagic species such as cetaceans for which there is generally little evidence of…
Time allocation and diving behaviour of harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) in Danish and adjacent waters
TEILMANN, JONAS; LARSEN, FINN; DESPORTES, GENEVIÉVE
Journal of Cetacean Research and Management (2007)
To gain insight into the time allocation and diving behaviour of harbour porpoises in Danish and adjacent waters, satellite linked dive recorders were mounted on 14 harbour porpoises. The animals…
A visual and acoustic survey for harbour porpoises off North-West Africa: Further evidence of a discrete population
Boisseau, O.; Matthews, J.; Gillespie, D.; Lacey, C.; Moscrop, A.; El Ouamari, N.
African Journal of Marine Science (2007)
The distribution of harbour porpoises Phocoena phocoena in southern Europe and along the Atlantic African coast is poorly understood, with tentative assessments suggesting a discrete West African population with a…
Mass-dependent predation risk and lethal dolphin-porpoise interactions
MacLeod, R.; MacLeod, C. D.; Learmonth, J. A.; Jepson, P. D.; Reid, R. J.; Deaville, R.; Pierce, G. J.
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences (2007)
In small birds, mass-dependent predation risk (MDPR) is known to make the trade-off between avoiding starvation and avoiding predation dependent on individual mass. This occurs because carrying increased fat reserves…