Molecular and Cell Biology of Marine Mammals

by Pfeiffer, Carl J.; Nachtigall, Paul E.

• ISBN13: 9781575240626
• ISBN10: 1575240629
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-08-01
• Publisher: Krieger Pub Co

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	ix
Foreword	xv
Preface	xvii
Section I CETACEAN MOLECULAR GENETICS
The Molecular Profile of a Resident Community of Bottlenose Dolphins, Tursiops truncatus	3	(9)
Deborah A. Duffield
Randall S. Wells
Resource Specialization and the Evolution of Population Genetic Structure in Delphinid Species	12	(9)
A. Rus Hoelzel
Mitochondrial DNA Variability of Striped Dolphins in European Waters	21	(13)
Jose Garcia-Martinez
J. Antonio Raga
Andres Moya
Amparo Latorre
Inferring Population Structure Through Molecular Genetics: The Case of the Harbor Porpoise	34	(9)
Krystal A. Tolley
Patricia E. Rosel
Social and Population Genetic Structure of Sperm Whales Assessed by Molecular Genetic Analyses	43	(10)
Mary C. Dillon
Kenny R. Richard
Hal Whitehead
Jonathan M. Wright
Molecular Genetic Studies of Population Structure and Movement Patterns in a Migratory Species: The Beluga Whale Delphinapterus leucas, in the Western Nearctic	53	(12)
Greg M. O'Corry-Crowe
Andrew E. Dizon
R.S. Suydam
Lloyd F. Lowry
Right Whale, Eubalaena, Molecular Ecology	65	(19)
Cathy M. Schaeff
Worldwide Distribution and Diversity of Humpback Whale Mitochondrial DNA Lineages	84	(16)
Charles Scott Baker
Luis Medrano-Gonzalez
Reconstructing the Rorqual Phylogeny: With Comments on the Use of Molecular and Morphological Data for Systematic Study	100	(11)
Richard G. LeDuc
Andrew E. Dizon
Rates of Mitochondrial DNA Evolution Are Slower in Mysticete Relative to Odontocete Cetaceans	111	(10)
Toshiyuki Kimura
Tomowo Ozawa
Section II PINNIPED AND SIRENIAN MOLECULAR GENETICS
Genetic Variation in Elephant Seals	121	(9)
Niles Lehman
Brent S. Stewart
Genetic Diversity and Substructure of the Pacific Harbor Seal, Phoca vitulina richardsi	130	(8)
Margaret M. Lamont
Molecular Ecology of Atlantic Harbor Seals, Phoca vitulina	138	(14)
David W. Coltman
Simon J. Goodman
Jonathan M. Wright
Interspecific Comparison of Mitochondrial DNA Variation Among Extant Species of Sirenians	152	(9)
Leslee A. Parr
Deborah A. Duffield
Section III ADVANCES IN THE DETECTION OF MARINE MAMMAL DISEASES
Molecular Biology of Morbillivirus Diseases of Marine Mammals	161	(12)
Tom Barrett
Bert K. Rima
Immunocytochemical Studies of Morbillivirus Infection in Striped Dolphins	173	(5)
Mariano Domingo
Immunohistochemistry of Morbillivirus Infection in Seals, Harbor Propoises, and Bottlenose Dolphins	178	(8)
Seamus Kennedy
Thomas P. Lipscomb
F. Yvonne Schulman
Molecular Identification of the Infective Agent of Lobo's Disease of Dolphins	186	(7)
Elsa M. Haubold
Michael R. McGinnis
Chester R. Cooper, Jr.
Daniel F. Cowan
Application of ELISA Methodology for Detection of Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae Antibody Titers in Cetaceans	193	(12)
Bob L. Middlebrooks
John C. Jones
Rhonda A. Patterson
Manatees and Brevetoxicosis	205	(8)
Gregory D. Bossart
Daniel G. Baden
Ruth Y Ewing
Scott D. Wright
Cytopathology of Cutaneous Viral Papillomatosis in the Killer Whale, Orcinus orca	213	(12)
Gregory D. Bossart
Susan J. Decker
Ruth Y Ewing
Micronuclei Induction by Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Isolated Beluga Whale Skin Fibroblasts	225	(10)
Julie M. Gauthier
Helene Dubeau
Eric Rassart
Section IV CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR IMMUNOLOGY
Cellular Immunology of Cetaceans	235	(10)
Sylvain De Guise
Methods for Purification and Study of Cetacean Immunoglobulins	245	(8)
Rhonda A. Patterson
Bob L. Middlebrooks
Immune Response, Stress, and Environment: Implications for Cetaceans	253	(27)
Tracy A. Romano
David L. Felten
Suzanne Y. Stevens
J.A. Olschowka
Vito Quaranta
Sam H. Ridgway
Immunohistochemistry in Cetaceans	280	(9)
Daniel F. Cowan
Zoran Gatalica
The Cytokines of Marine Mammals: Biological Properties and Molecular Analysis	289	(11)
Donald P. King
Jeffrey L. Stott
Isolation, Cloning, Sequencing, and Expression of Marine Mammal Interleukin 2	300	(13)
W. Guy Bradley
John E. Reynolds III
Section V CELL BIOLOGY AND ULTRASTRUCTURE
Cellular and Molecular Investigations Utilizing a Bottlenose Dolphin Epithelial Cell Line	313	(15)
Michael J. Carvan III
Susan D. Miller
David L. Busbee
A Comparative Molecular Cytogenetic Characterization of the Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphin Tursiops truncatus	328	(16)
Paul Bielec
Dan Gallagher
James Womack
David L. Busbee
In Vitro Maturation and Fertilization of Minke Whale, Balaenoptera acutorostrata, Follicular Oocytes	344	(12)
Yutaka Fukui
Cellular Signal Transduction Pathways in Atlantic Spotted Dolphin Renal Cells	356	(8)
Carl J. Pfeiffer
Lucy B. Gray
K. June Mullins
Cloning and Expression of Dolphin Opsin Sequences and a Mechanism of Spectral Tuning	364	(17)
Jeffry I. Fasick
Phyllis R. Robinson
Fine Structure of the Tapetum Fibrosum, Retinal Epithelium, and Photoreceptors of the Beluga Whale, Delphinapterus leucas	381	(15)
Charlie R. Braekevelt
Cellular Ultrastructural and Biochemical Specializations in the Cetacean Epidermis	396	(16)
Carl J. Pfeiffer
Gopinathan K. Menon
Cetacean Oral and Lingual Epithelium: Cell and Subcellular Structure	412	(13)
Gopinathan K. Menon
Carl J. Pfeiffer
Selected Subject Index	425