Protected Species Research Publications - Health

2015-2016

• Adimey et al. 2016. Twenty-six years of post-release monitoring of Florida manatees (Trichechus manatus latirostris): evaluation of a cooperative rehabilitation program. Aquatic Mammals
• Banerjee et al. 2019. Baseline health parameters of East Pacifric green turtles at southern California foraging grounds. Chelonian Conservation and Biology
• Barbieri et al. 2016. Protozoal-related mortalities in endangered Hawaiian monk seals Neomonachus schauinslandi. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms
• Bright et al. 2016. Tracking growth and survival of rescued boulder corals. Restoration Ecology
• Caldarone et al. 2016. Evaluation of nucleic acids and plasma IGF1 levels for estimating short-term responses of post-smolt Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) to food availability. Fishery Bulletin
• Colegrove et al. 2016. Fetal distress and in utero pneumonia in perinatal dolphins during the Northern Gulf of Mexico unusual mortality event. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms
• Dias et al. 2016. Evidence of cetaceans' exposure to petroleum products following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Endangered Species Research
• Donnelly et al. 2016. Mycobacterium haemophilum infection in a juvenile leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea). Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation
• Donnelly et al. 2016. Phaeohyphomycosis resulting in obstructive tracheitis in three green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) stranded along the Florida coast. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms
• Durban et al. 2016. Photogrammetry of blue whales with an unmanned hexacopter.  Marine Mammal Science
• Fauquier et al. 2016. Evaluation of morbillivirus exposure in cetaceans from the northern Gulf of Mexico 2010-2014. Endangered Species Research
• Harding et al. 2016. Wastewater treatment plant effluent alters pituitary gland gonadotropin mRNA levels in juvenile coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch).  Aquatic Toxicology
• Harris et al. 2016. Validation of ultrasound as a noninvasive tool to measure subcutaneous fat depth in leatherback sea turtles (Dermochelys coriacea). Journal of Zoology and WIldlife Medicine 
• McIntyre et al. 2016. Severe coal tar sealcoat runoff toxicity to fish is reversed by bioretention infiltration. Environmental Science & Technology
• Meador et al. 2016. Contaminants of emerging concern in a large temperate estuary. Environmental Pollution
• Moser et al. 2016. Biology and life history of green sturgeon (Acipenser medirostris): state of the science. Journal of Applied Ichthyology
• Putman et al. 2015. Deepwater Horizon oil spill impacts on sea turtles could span the Atlantic.  Biology Letters
• Sommers et al. 2016. Effects of salinity on olfactory toxicity and behavioral responses of juvenile salmonids from copper. Aquatic Toxicology
• Wallace et al. 2016. Estimating sea turtle exposures to Deepwater Horizon oil. Endangered Species Research
• Wu et al. 2016. Detection of Brucella spp. In Bottlenose Dolphins Tursiops truncatus by a real-time PCR using blowhole swabs. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms
• Ylitalo et al. 2016. Determining oil and dispersant exposure in sea turtles from the northern Gulf of Mexico resulting from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Endangered Species Research
   

2017

• Apprill et al. 2017. Extensive core microbiome in drone-captured whale blow supports a framework for health monitoring. Host-Microbe Biology
• Arkoosh et al. 2017. Alteration of thyroid hormone concentrations in juvenile Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) exposed to polybrominated diphenyl ethers, BDE-47 and BDE-99. Chemosphere
• Corkeron et al. 2017. A right whale pootree: classification trees of fecal hormones identify reproductive states in North Atlantic right whales (Eubalaena glacialis). Conservation Physiology
• Cribb et al. 2017. Elucidation of the first definitively identified life cycle for a marine turtle blood fluke (Trematoda: Spirorchiidae) enables informed control. International Journal for Parasitology
• Fahlman et al. 2017. Defining risk variables causing gas embolism in loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) caught in trawls and gillnets. Scientific Reports
• Feist et al. 2017. Roads to ruin: conservation threats to a sentinel species across an urban gradient. Ecological Applications
• Gustafson et al. 2017. A systematic surveillance program for infectious salmon anemia virus supports its absence in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. Journal of Fish Diseases
• Hall et al. 2018. Predicting the effects of polychlorinated biphenyls on cetacean populations through impacts on immunity and calf survival. Environmental Pollution
• Joyce et al. 2017. Physiological, morphological, and ecological tradeoffs influence vertical habitat use of deep-diving toothed-whales in the Bahamas. PLoS One
• MacAvoy et al. 2017. Sources of stable isotope variation among stranded Western Atlantic dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in North Carolina. Marine Mammal Science
• Meador et al. 2017. Determining potential adverse effects in marine fish exposed to pharmaceuticals and personal care products with the fish plasma model and whole-body tissue concentrations. Environmental Pollution
• Neely et al. 2017. Skin transcriptomes of common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) from the northern Gulf of Mexico and southeastern U.S. Atlantic coasts. Marine Genomics
• Phillips et al. 2017. Predator-prey interactions influenced by a dynamic river plume. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
• Raverty et al. 2017. Respiratory microbiome of endangered Southern Resident Killer Whales and microbiota of surrounding sea surface microlayer in the Eastern North Pacific. Scientific Reports
• Stacy et al. 2017. Evidence of diversity, site and host specificity of sea turtle blood flukes (Digenea: Schistosomatoidea: "Spirorchiidae"): a molecular prospecting study. The Journal of Parasitology
• Thometz et al. 2017. Comparative physiology of vocal musculature in two odontocetes, the bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) and the harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena). Journal of Comparative Physiology B
• Wilkin et al. 2017. Marine mammal response operations during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Endangered Species Research
• Yeh et al. 2017. Effect of contaminants of emerging concern on liver mitochondrial function in Chinook salmon. Aquatic Toxicology
   

2018

• Amaya et al. 2018. Large-scale sea turtle mortality events in El Salvador attributed to paralytic shellfish toxin-producing algae blooms. Frontiers in Marine Science
• Arkoosh et al. 2018. Dietary exposure to a binary mixture of polybrominated diphenyl ethers alters innate immunity and disease susceptibility in juvenile Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha). Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety
• Balmer et al. 2018.  Ranging patterns and exposure to cumulative stressors of a Tursiops truncatus (common bottlenose dolphin) in Georgia. Southeastern Naturalist
• Crane et al. 2018. Novel anelloviruses identified in buccal swabs of Antarctic fur seals. Virus Genes
• Emmons et al. 2018. Quantifying variation in killer whale (Orcinus orca) morphology using elliptical Fourier analysis. Marine Mammal Science
• Farmer et al. 2018. Resilience of the endangered sperm whale Physeter macrocephalus to foraging disturbance in the Gulf of Mexico, USA: a bioenergetic approach. Marine Ecology Progress Series
• Fleming et al. 2018. The utility of combining stable isotope and hormone analyses for marine megafauna research. Frontiers in Marine Science
• Hall et al. 2018. Predicting the effects of polychlorinated biphenyls on cetacean populations through impacts on immunity and calf survival. Environmental Pollution
• Murakawa and Stover 2018. Impact of exceptional growth rates on estimations of life-stage duration in Hawaiian green sea turtles.  Endangered Species Research
• Robinson et al. 2018. Model recommendations meet management reality: implementation and evaluation of a network-informed vaccination effort for endangered Hawaiian monk seals. Proceedings of the Royal Society B
• Shelby Walker et al. 2018. Brevetoxin exposure in sea turtles in south Texas (USA) during Karenia brevis red tide. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms
• Stacy et al. 2018. Chronic debilitation in stranded loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) in the southeastern United States: morphometrics and clinicopathological findings. PLos One
• Stimmelmayr et al. 2018. Oil fouling in subsistence-harvested ringed (Phoca hispida) and spotted seals (Phoca largha) from the Bering Strait region, Alaska: Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon bile and tissue levels and pathological findings. Marine Pollution Bulletin
• Walker et al. 2018. Brevetoxin exposure in sea turtles in south Texas (USA) during Karenia brevis red tide. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms
   

2019

• Avens et al. 2019. Regional comparison of leatherback sea turtle maturation attributes and reproductive longevity.  Marine Biology
• Barratclough et al. 2019. Health assessments of common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus): past, present, and potential conservation applications. Frontiers in Veterinary Science
• Barraza et al. 2019. Trace metals in green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) inhabiting two southern California coastal estuaries. Chemosphere
• Foley et al. 2019. Assessing Karenia brevis red tide as a mortality factor of sea turtles in Florida, USA. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms
• Foley et al. 2019. Characterizing watercraft-related mortality of sea turtles in Florida. The Journal of Wildlife Management 
• González Barrientos et al. 2019. Saxitoxin poisoning in green turtles (Chelonia mydas) linked to scavenging on mass mortality of Caribbean sharpnose puffer fish (Canthigaster rostrata-Tetraodontidae). Frontiers in Veterinary Science
• Sharp et al. 2019. Gross and histopathologic diagnoses from North Atlantic right whale (Eubalena glacialis) mortalities between 2003 and 2018. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms
• Stacy et al. 2019. Caryospora-like coccidia infecting green turtles (Chelonia mydas): an emerging disease with evidence of interoceanic dissemination. Frontiers in Veterinary Science
• VanWormer et al. 2019. Viral emergence in marine mammals in the North Pacific may be linked to Arctic sea ice reduction. Scientific Reports
• Work et al. 2019. A novel host-adapted strain of Salmonella Typhimurium causes renal disease in olive ridley turtles (Lepidochelys olivacea) in the Pacific. Scientific Reports
• Yang et al. 2019. Blood biochemistry and haematology of migrating loggerhead turtles (Caretta caretta) in the Northwest Atlantic: reference intervals and intra-population comparisons. Conservation Physiology