Search Results - "Blix, Arnoldus S"
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North Atlantic minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) feeding habits and migrations evaluated by stable isotope analysis of baleen
Published in Ecology and evolution (01-11-2021)“…Isotopic analyses of the incrementally growing baleen in Mysticeti have been used to learn about their feeding and movement patterns. Using methods previously…”
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Validation of a device for accurate timing of feeding events in marine animals
Published in Polar biology (01-04-2009)“…Two acceleration data loggers, each measuring surging and heaving acceleration, were attached to the head and mandible of three captive hooded seals,…”
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Hypoxia tolerance in mammals and birds: from the wilderness to the clinic
Published in Annual review of physiology (01-01-2007)“…All mammals and birds must develop effective strategies to cope with reduced oxygen availability. These animals achieve tolerance to acute and chronic hypoxia…”
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Structure and function of respiratory turbinates in phocid seals
Published in Polar biology (01-02-2020)“…In terrestrial mammals, the respiratory turbinate bones within the nasal cavity are employed to conserve heat and water. In order to investigate whether…”
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Rapid postnatal development of myoglobin from large liver iron stores in hooded seals
Published in Journal of experimental biology (15-05-2013)“…Hooded seals (Cystophora cristata) rely on large stores of oxygen, either bound to hemoglobin or myoglobin (Mb), to support prolonged diving activity. Pups are…”
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Remarkable neuronal hypoxia tolerance in the deep-diving adult hooded seal ( Cystophora cristata)
Published in Neuroscience letters (03-12-2008)“…Seals cope with regular exposure to diving hypoxia by storing oxygen in blood and skeletal muscles and by limiting the distribution of blood-borne oxygen to…”
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Remarkable development of diving performance and migrations of hooded seals (Cystophora cristata) during their first year of life
Published in Polar biology (01-04-2010)“…Newborn hooded seals (Cystophora cristata) have smaller weight-specific oxygen stores than adults, but nothing is known about how this affects their diving…”
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Why Rudolph’s nose is red: observational study
Published in BMJ (Online) (17-12-2012)“…Objective To characterise the functional morphology of the nasal microcirculation in humans in comparison with reindeer as a means of testing the hypothesis…”
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SERUM CHEMISTRY AND ANTIBODIES AGAINST PATHOGENS IN ANTARCTIC FUR SEALS, WEDDELL SEALS, CRABEATER SEALS, AND ROSS SEALS
Published in Journal of wildlife diseases (01-07-2012)“…Information on health parameters, such as antibody prevalences and serum chemistry that can reveal exposure to pathogens, disease, and abnormal physiologic…”
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Immobilization of muskoxen (Ovibos moschatus) with etorphine and xylazine
Published in Acta veterinaria scandinavica (27-06-2011)“…One hundred and thirty three "wild" muskoxen, 81 of which of known body mass, were successfully immobilized using etorphine (M99), and xylazine (Rompun®),…”
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Distribution and diving behaviour of harp seals (Pagophilus groenlandicus) from the Greenland Sea stock
Published in Polar biology (01-04-2004)“…The distribution and diving behaviour of 16 adult harp seals (Pagophilus groenlandicus) from the Greenland Sea stock were studied in 1993 and 1999, using…”
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12th Arctic Ungulate Conference (AUC), 8-13 August 2007, Yakutsk, Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Russia
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Structure and function of respiratory turbinates in phocid seals
Published in Polar biology (2020)“…In terrestrial mammals, the respiratory turbinate bones within the nasal cavity are employed to conserve heat and water. In order to investigate whether…”
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Seasonal changes in the adherent microflora of the rumen in high-arctic Svalbard reindeer
Published in Canadian journal of microbiology (01-01-1993)“…Seasonal changes in bacterial colonization of the epithelial tissue were examined in the rumen of high-arctic Svalbard reindeer. Samples of tissue were…”
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On Roald Amundsen's scientific achievements
Published in Polar research (01-01-2016)“…This paper describes the significant direct and indirect contributions to science made by the Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen in the period 1897-1924…”
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On how whales avoid decompression sickness and why they sometimes strand
Published in Journal of experimental biology (15-09-2013)“…Whales are unique in that the supply of blood to the brain is not by the internal carotid arteries, but by way of thoracic and intra-vertebral arterial retia…”
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Distribution, density and abundance of Antarctic ice seals off Queen Maud Land and the eastern Weddell Sea
Published in Polar biology (01-05-2017)“…The Antarctic Pack Ice Seal (APIS) Program was initiated in 1994 to estimate the abundance of four species of Antarctic phocids: the crabeater seal Lobodon…”
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Distribution and Habitat Suitability of Ross Seals in a Warming Ocean
Published in Frontiers in Marine Science (13-05-2021)“…Understanding the determinants of poorly studied species’ spatial ecology is fundamental to understanding climate change impacts on those species and how to…”
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Superb Winter fur insulation in small Siberian musk deer (Moschus moschiferus)
Published in Rangifer (2015)“…We compared the morphology and thermal characteristics of winter pelage from two Siberian musk deer Moschus moschiferus (aged 5 and 41 mo.; 5.7 and 9.5 kg) and…”
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