[MARMAM] Plastic pollution within a marine protected area identifies threats for endangered northern bottlenose whales

> > For those tracking trends in microplastic pollution and the impacts on marine mammals, our latest collaborative publication: "Long term trends in floating plastic pollution within a marine protected area identifies threats for endangered northern bottlenose whales" is now available online and

[MARMAM] Publication: PhotoID Reveals the Threat of Entanglement for Endangered Northern Bottlenose Whales (Hyperoodon ampullatus)

Dear colleagues, We would like to to share our new paper "Origin and Persistence of Markings in a Long-Term Photo-Identification Dataset Reveal the Threat of Entanglement for Endangered Northern Bottlenose Whales (Hyperoodon ampullatus)" recently published as open access in Frontiers in Marine

[MARMAM] New OA publication: Prolonged maternal care in northern bottlenose whales alters our understanding of beaked whale life history

potential, with broad implications for models of beaked whale life history, energetics and the species’ recovery from whaling. A copy is freely available at: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0235114 Cheers, Laura Joan Feyrer ___ MARMAM mailing list

[MARMAM] New publication on population structure and historical demography in northern bottlenose whales

For those interested in genetic assessments of population structure and historical demography in cetaceans we have recently published our open access study: Feyrer, L.J., Bentzen, P., Whitehead, H., Paterson, I.G. and Einfeldt, A., 2019. Evolutionary impacts differ between two exploited

[MARMAM] First record of XXY in marine mammals and intersex sequencing method: new publication

On behalf of my co-authors I'm excited to announce our publication in the Journal of Mammalogy which describes: (1) the first records of genetically intersex cetaceans and (2) the sequencing method for determining XXY chromosome condition in mammals. Please contact Dr. Einfeldt

[MARMAM] new publication on beaked whale acoustics

For those interested in beaked whale acoustics, we are pleased to announce our publication "Click characteristics of northern bottlenose whales (Hyperoodon ampullatus) and Sowerby's beaked whales (Mesoplodon bidens) off eastern Canada," has been published in The Journal of the Acoustical Society

[MARMAM] New Publication of first Mitogenome for Sowerby's and True's Beaked whales

A technical note that may be of interest for the marine mammal science community: "Complete mitochondrial genomes and phylogeny of two rare whale species: True’s (Mesoplodon mirus: True 1913) and Sowerby’s (Mesoplodon bidens: Sowerby 1804) beaked whales" Beaked whales of the genus Mesoplodon are