| time and frequency parameters of bottlenose dolphin whistles as predictors of surface behavior in the mississippi sound. | acoustic characteristics related to contour of the whistle (such as highest and lowest frequency, beginning and ending frequency, whistle duration, and number of turns) of bottlenose dolphin (tursiops truncatus) whistles were measured to test whether any of the measurements were related to the behavioral state of the dolphins when the whistle was recorded (coded as mill, travel, mill/travel, feed, or social). objective measures of time and frequency were obtained using raven, while number of tur ... | 2010 | 21117771 |
| morbilliviral epizootic in bottlenose dolphins of the gulf of mexico. | morbillivirus infection was diagnosed in 35/67 bottlenose dolphins (tursiops truncatus) from the gulf of mexico that stranded from october 1993 through april 1994 in alabama, mississippi, and texas (usa) during periods of increased dolphin strandings in each of the 3 states. diagnosis was based on histologic lesions, immunohistochemical demonstration of mobilliviral antigen, and detection of morbilliviral rna by a reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (rt-pcr) test performed on formali ... | 1996 | 8844569 |
| persistent organic pollutants (pops) in blubber of common bottlenose dolphins (tursiops truncatus) along the northern gulf of mexico coast, usa. | a number of studies were initiated in response to the deepwater horizon (dwh) oil spill to understand potential injuries to bottlenose dolphins (tursiops truncatus) that inhabit the northern gulf of mexico (ngom) estuarine waters. as part of these studies, remote biopsy skin and blubber samples were collected from dolphins at six field sites that received varying degrees of oiling: barataria bay (bb), chandeleur sound west (csw), chandeleur sound east (cse), mississippi sound south (mss), missis ... | 2015 | 25965044 |
| seasonal variation in the skin transcriptome of common bottlenose dolphins (tursiops truncatus) from the northern gulf of mexico. | as long-lived predators that integrate exposures across multiple trophic levels, cetaceans are recognized as sentinels for the health of marine ecosystems. their utility as sentinels requires the establishment of baseline health parameters. because cetaceans are protected, measurements obtained with minimal disruption to free ranging animals are highly desirable. in this study we investigated the utility of skin gene expression profiling to monitor health and contaminant exposure in common bottl ... | 2015 | 26110790 |
| adrenal gland and lung lesions in gulf of mexico common bottlenose dolphins (tursiops truncatus) found dead following the deepwater horizon oil spill. | a northern gulf of mexico (gom) cetacean unusual mortality event (ume) involving primarily bottlenose dolphins (tursiops truncatus) in louisiana, mississippi, and alabama began in february 2010 and continued into 2014. overlapping in time and space with this ume was the deepwater horizon (dwh) oil spill, which was proposed as a contributing cause of adrenal disease, lung disease, and poor health in live dolphins examined during 2011 in barataria bay, louisiana. to assess potential contributing f ... | 2015 | 25992681 |