Given the remote, rugged areas belugas typically inhabit and low rehabilitation success rate with any cetacean, it is rare to have opportunity rescue a live-stranded beluga. The Alaska SeaLife Center cared for two stranded beluga calves different outcomes. In 2012, neonatal male calf (DL1202) following intense storms in Bristol Bay. 2017, helicopter pilot discovered (DL1705) during flight over ...

Changing conditions in the Arctic have had severe consequences for many marine mammals. In this study, we examined blubber cortisol using radioimmunoassay 4 Canadian beluga whale Dephinapterus leucas populations. The endangered Cumberland Sound population higher levels (mean ± SE: 0.65 0.11 ng g -1 ) than populations not at risk: Eastern Beaufort Sea (0.31 0.03 ; p < 0.001), High Arctic-Baff...

Betanodavirus is the pathogen of viral nervous necrosis (VNN) disease that has caused mass mortality among many species of marine fish at larval stage. In this study, the efficacy of inactivated betanodavirus was evaluated by bath-immunization and bath-challenge of orange-spotted grouper (Epinephelus coioides) at early larval stage. Two kinds of chemicals were used for inactivation of the virus...

Paenibacillus larvae is a pathogen of honeybees that causes American foulbrood (AFB). We isolated bacteriophages from soil containing bee debris collected near beehives in Utah. We announce five high-quality complete genome sequences, which represent the first completed genome sequences submitted to GenBank for any P. larvae bacteriophage.

The aim of the present study was to detect polymorphism in Insulin like growth factor-I (IGF-I) gene of beluga (Huso huso) fish using PCR-SSCP technique and also investigation of its association with growth traits (condition factor, body length and weight). A total of 150 specimens of beluga were randomly selected and DNA was isolated from caudal fin using modified salting out method. Then two ...