Marine mammals face a large array of stressors, including loss of habitat, chemical and
noise pollution, and bycatch in fishing, which alone kills hundreds of thousands of marine …

The increasing disease susceptibility in different whale and dolphin populations has led to
speculation about a possible negative influence of environmental contaminants on the …

Immune defence is an incredibly complicated system, but to understand how it functions in
an ecological context is challenging. Our focus is to outline the diversity of ways to measure …

The acute phase response (APR) is a set of metabolic and physiological reactions occurring
in the host in response to tissue infection or injury and is a crucial component of the larger …

Killer whales in the NE Pacific Ocean are among the world's most PCB-contaminated marine
mammals, raising concerns about implications for their health. Sixteen health-related killer …

The dramatic increase in the application of genomic techniques to non-model organisms
(NMOs) over the past decade has yielded numerous valuable contributions to evolutionary …

Many species that contribute to the commercial and ecological richness of our marine
ecosystems are harbingers of environmental change. The ability of organisms to rapidly …

Marine mammals command a high level of public attention, reflected in specific legislation
for their protection and management in many countries. They also present particular …

The health of wild bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) is typically evaluated by the
study of animals that are captured and released back into the wild after examination. The …

Toxoplasma gondii is a cosmopolitan zoonotic parasite and nowadays considered as an
emerging neozoan pathogen in the marine environment. Cetacean innate immune reactions …