Patterns of bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus, strandings in Texas

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dc.contributor.authorWorthy GAJen_US
dc.contributor.otherNoaa (National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration) Technical Report Nmfs (National Marine Fisheries Service)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2010-02-15T17:13:09Z
dc.date.available2010-02-15T17:13:09Z
dc.date.issued1998en_US
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dc.description.abstractDuring the spring of 1994, large numbers of bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops truncatus, washed ashore along the upper Texas coast. The majority of these carcasses were in an advanced state of decomposition, indicating that death had occurred some time earlier, possibly offshore. Despite intensive efforts to determine the cause of death by traditional pathological examinations, no conclusions could be drawn. Eventually, through the use of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) techniques, the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology was able to determine that a large proportion of the animals had an active morbillivirus infection and that this was likely the cause of death. Compared to normal years, increased numbers of dead dolphins began washing up on beaches during December 1993, peaking in March and April 1994 when a total of 171 dolphins were retrieved and continuing through May 1994. Of this total, 89% were retrieved between Matagorda Bay and the Louisiana state line. The actual impact on thecoastal bottlenose dolphin population may never be known because of a lack of robustness in the population estimates, however, ongoing surveys of the resident populations in Galveston, Matagorda, and Corpus Christi Bays do not indicate any decline in local abundanceen_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1969.3/22892
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dc.notesDB - BIOSIS PreviewsAN - PREV199900337765IN - Physiological Ecology and Bioenergetics Research Lab and Texas Marine Mammal Stranding Network, Texas A and M University, 5001 Avenue U, Suite 105, Galveston, TX, 77551, USACY - USAPT - ArticleLG - EnglishDS - morbillivirus infection: (Morbillivirus Infections (MeSH)), infectious disease, viral diseaseen_US
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dc.subjectbeachesen_US
dc.subjectdecompositionen_US
dc.subjectpopulation abundanceen_US
dc.subjectpopulation estimatesen_US
dc.subjectstranding dataen_US
dc.subjectArmed Forces Institute of Pathology: government agencyen_US
dc.subjectDelphinidae: Animals,Cetaceans,Chordates,Mammals,Nonhuman Vertebrates,Nonhuman Mammals,Vertebratesen_US
dc.subjectEpidemiology: Population Studiesen_US
dc.subjectPathologyen_US
dc.subjectTursiops truncatus: bottlenose dolphin,carcass [Delphinidae]en_US
dc.subject[10050] Biochemistry methods - Generalen_US
dc.subject[12504] Pathology - Diagnosticen_US
dc.subject[37056] Public health: epidemiology - Miscellaneousen_US
dc.subject[85815] Delphinidaeen_US
dc.subject[85815] Delphinidae,Cetacea,Mammalia,Vertebrata,Chordata,Animaliaen_US
dc.titlePatterns of bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus, strandings in Texasen_US
dc.typeJournalen_US
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dc.vol-issue0(143)en_US

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