Conservation of Amazonian aquatic mammals

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sannie Brum ◽  
Patrícia Rosas‐Ribeiro ◽  
Rodrigo de Souza Amaral ◽  
Diogo Alexandre Souza ◽  
Leandro Castello ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Aquatic Mammals

Cryptosporidium spp. and Giardia sp. in aquatic mammals in northern and northeastern Brazil

2017 ◽  
Vol 126 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
JCG Borges ◽  
DS Lima ◽  
EM da Silva ◽  
ALO Moreira ◽  
M Marmontel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Northeastern Brazil ◽  
Cryptosporidium Spp ◽  
Aquatic Mammals

A Review of the Aquatic Mammals of Belize

2016 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 476-493 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric A. Ramos ◽  
Delma N. Castelblanco-Martínez ◽  
Carlos A. Niño-Torres ◽  
Klavdija Jenko ◽  
Nicole Auil Gomez
Keyword(s):  
Aquatic Mammals

Lower size limit of aquatic mammals

1999 ◽  
Vol 67 (10) ◽  
pp. 920-922 ◽  
Author(s):  
Boye K. Ahlborn ◽  
Robert W. Blake
Keyword(s):  
Size Limit ◽  
Lower Size ◽  
Aquatic Mammals

Cone visual pigments of aquatic mammals

2005 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. 873-879 ◽  
Author(s):  
LUCY A. NEWMAN ◽  
PHYLLIS R. ROBINSON
Keyword(s):  
Color Vision ◽  
Mammalian Cells ◽  
Marine Mammals ◽  
Light Availability ◽  
Splice Site Mutation ◽  
Harbor Seal ◽  
Site Mutation ◽  
Cetacean Species ◽  
Cone Opsin ◽  
Aquatic Mammals

It has long been hypothesized that the visual systems of animals are evolutionarily adapted to their visual environment. The entrance many millions of years ago of mammals into the sea gave these new aquatic mammals completely novel visual surroundings with respect to light availability and predominant wavelengths. This study examines the cone opsins of marine mammals, hypothesizing, based on previous studies [Fasick et al. (1998) and Levenson & Dizon (2003)], that the deep-dwelling marine mammals would not have color vision because the pressure to maintain color vision in the dark monochromatic ocean environment has been relaxed. Short-wavelength-sensitive (SWS) and long-wavelength-sensitive (LWS) cone opsin genes from two orders (Cetacea and Sirenia) and an additional suborder (Pinnipedia) of aquatic mammals were amplified from genomic DNA (for SWS) and cDNA (for LWS) by PCR, cloned, and sequenced. All animals studied from the order Cetacea have SWS pseudogenes, whereas a representative from the order Sirenia has an intact SWS gene, for which the corresponding mRNA was found in the retina. One of the pinnipeds studied (harp seal) has an SWS pseudogene, while another species (harbor seal) appeared to have an intact SWS gene. However, no SWS cone opsin mRNA was found in the harbor seal retina, suggesting a promoter or splice site mutation preventing transcription of the gene. The LWS opsins from the different species were expressed in mammalian cells and reconstituted with the 11-cis-retinal chromophore in order to determine maximal absorption wavelengths (λmax) for each. The deeper dwelling Cetacean species had blue shifted λmax values compared to shallower-dwelling aquatic species. Taken together, these findings support the hypothesis that in the monochromatic oceanic habitat, the pressure to maintain color vision has been relaxed and mutations are retained in the SWS genes, resulting in pseudogenes. Additionally, LWS opsins are retained in the retina and, in deeper-dwelling animals, are blue shifted in λmax.

scholarly journals The phylogeny of desmostylians revisited: proposal of new clades based on robust phylogenetic hypotheses

PeerJ ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. e7430
Author(s):  
Kumiko Matsui ◽  
Takanobu Tsuihiji
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Analyses ◽  
Data Matrix ◽  
Common Ancestry ◽  
Consensus Trees ◽  
Phylogenetic Hypotheses ◽  
Aquatic Mammals ◽  
Data Matrices

Background Desmostylia is a clade of extinct aquatic mammals with no living members. Today, this clade is considered belonging to either Afrotheria or Perissodactyla. In the currently-accepted taxonomic scheme, Desmostylia includes two families, 10 to 12 genera, and 13–14 species. There have been relatively few phylogenetic analyses published on desmostylian interrelationship compared to other vertebrate taxa, and two main, alternative phylogenetic hypotheses have been proposed in previous studies. One major problem with those previous studies is that the numbers of characters and OTUs were small. Methods In this study, we analyzed the phylogenetic interrelationship of Desmostylia based on a new data matrix that includes larger numbers of characters and taxa than in any previous studies. The new data matrix was compiled mainly based on data matrices of previous studies and included three outgroups and 13 desmostylian ingroup taxa. Analyses were carried out using five kinds of parsimonious methods. Results Strict consensus trees of the most parsimonious topologies obtained in all analyses supported the monophyly of Desmostylidae and paraphyly of traditional Paleoparadoxiidae. Based on these results, we propose phylogenetic definitions of the clades Desmostylidae and Paleoparadoxiidae based on common ancestry.

scholarly journals Detection of serum antibodies to Brucella in Russian aquatic mammals

2018 ◽  
Vol 80 (11) ◽  
pp. 1696-1701 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kazue OHISHI ◽  
Erika ABE ◽  
Masao AMANO ◽  
Nobuyuki MIYAZAKI ◽  
Andrei BOLTUNOV ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Serum Antibodies ◽  
Aquatic Mammals
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