Morbillivirus in monk seal mass mortality
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
A morbillivirus causing mass mortality in seals.
During an outbreak of a serious apparently infectious disease among harbour seals (Phoca vitulina), which started in the Kattegat area in April 1988 and rapidly spread to the North sea, the Wadden sea and the Baltic sea, greater than 17,000 animals died within a period of eight months. In August 1988 it was realized that the clinical symptoms and pathological lesions were similar to those found...
متن کاملPathological findings in the Hawaiian monk seal.
Postmortem examinations were performed on 45 Hawaiian monk seals (Monachus schauinslandi) collected during field research on the beaches of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (USA) from 1981 to 1985. Both males and females of all age groups, perinatal through adult, were examined. Frequent findings included parasites, trauma, cardiovascular disease (congenital and acquired), and respiratory infe...
متن کاملSome Notes on the Hawaiian Monk Seal
UP TO 1958 the collections of the British Museum ( N atural History ) possessed nei ther skeletal material nor skin of the Hawaiian or Laysan monk seal, Monachus schauinslalldi Matschie 1905 . Indeed the only remains of this animal in Europe until now have been those brought back by Dr. Schauinsland, amongst which was the skull of the seal later named after him by Matschie (Marschie, 1905) . Th...
متن کاملThermoregulatory Behavior of the Hawaiian Monk Seal (
The behavior of Hawaiian monk seals at French Frigate Shoals was studied in order to obtain information on their adaptation to a tropical climate. The seals were unable to remain on the dry beach platform during the day except during very high winds, extensive cloud cover, or rain. The seals characteristically moved down to wet sand on the beach slope during the day and returned to the beach pl...
متن کاملThe Cilician Monk Seal Colony Is Growing
The first seal colony size assessment study on the Cilician coast of Turkey, carried out by the Middle East Technical University, indicated a presence of 4 adult males, 6 adult females and 2 juveniles in 1996. This figure was very promising for an area that had previously been represented by a question mark on the Mediterranean monk seal distribution maps of scientific documents. In 2001, with ...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Nature
سال: 1997
ISSN: 0028-0836,1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/42163