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1 eric slow-wave sleep of odontocetes (toothed whales).

2 ately 44 minutes of recordings from a single whale.

3 dontocete cetaceans are present in the minke whale.

4 ed Australian and New Zealand southern right whale.

5 erea marginata, is the most enigmatic living whale.

6 ct from the typical lunge feeding of rorqual whales.

7 ifestyle different from that of other extant whales.

8 rns in FOSA concentrations measured in pilot whales.

9 multichannel rod-based signaling in balaenid whales.

10 shifts in the densities of migratory baleen whales.

11 ales reaching maximum gape earlier than blue whales.

12 ue long-term dataset on wild resident killer whales.

13 ra musculus) and fin (Balaenoptera physalus) whales.

14 known about the risk of exposure for beluga whales.

15 ys and stem teleost fishes, and in mysticete whales.

16 were associated with MeHg exposure in beluga whales.

17 ers exposed to MeHg predominantly from pilot whales.

18 cializations and feeding strategies in early whales.

19 ly within a clade removed from modern baleen whales.

20 ced by a variety of animals including baleen whales.

21 sitions between states in short-finned pilot whales.

22 for this low diversity, especially in sperm whales.

23 y recovering pinnipeds and endangered killer whales.

24 luding commercially important fish and great whales.

25 p to 61.5% for bigeyes and 87.4% for Bryde's whales.

26 and reproductive success in resident killer whales [9, 10].

27 enome sequences of three minke whales, a fin whale, a bottlenose dolphin and a finless porpoise.

28 iencephalon, midbrain, and pons of the minke whale, a mysticete cetacean.

29 as the whole-genome sequences of three minke whales, a fin whale, a bottlenose dolphin and a finless

30 ope profiles of 66 Australian southern right whales, a proxy for feeding ground location, and both mt

31 provide strong evidence of declining beaked whale abundance in the study area.

32 examination of the power to detect trends in whale abundance or predict ecosystem responses to climat

33 acific calving grounds remain at <10% of pre-whaling abundance.

34 During engulfment, the whale accelerates, opens its jaw until it is almost perp

35 whale scat samples collected from 54 unique whales across a 4 year sampling period (2010-2013) were

36 he dorsal raphe nuclear complex of the minke whale, all indicate that the suite of neural characteris

37 d be detrimental to the North Atlantic Right Whale and a host of important fishery species.

38 means of sound generation and transmission, whales and bats adaptively change their FOV, suggesting

39 Whales and dolphins (Cetacea) have excellent social lear

40 nchronous changes in song patterns of baleen whales and experimental work on toothed whales in captiv

41 can help explain why female resident killer whales and humans continue to live long after they have

42 were observed on 58 occasions, involving 31 whales and including eight adult-calf pairs.

43 s transitional between raptorial archaeocete whales and modern mysticetes.

44 emical variation in the cerebellum of beluga whales and Se may partially protect from MeHg-associated

45 torical abundances of large animals, such as whales and sea turtles, is well known.

46 al-based demographic data in resident killer whales and show that when mothers and daughters co-breed

47 The strong association between whales and the dynamic, changing sea ice requires reexam

48 canyons that are suitable for Gray's beaked whales and their prey.

49 nternational Convention on the Regulation of Whaling and the failure to successfully regulate whaling

50 hanisms underlying song learning in humpback whales, and comparative perspectives on the evolution of

51 of canyons and seamounts to beaked and sperm whales, and quantified seasonal shifts in the densities

52 nternational Convention on the Regulation of Whaling, and the International Whaling Commission in par

53 sity of the completely helical protein sperm whale apomyoglobin (sw ApoMb) for amyloid formation from

54 Fin whales appear to synchronize and gradually modify song r

55 rgence of Odontocetes and Mystocetes (baleen whales) approximately 33-37 Mya.

56 in the liver and brain of long-finned pilot whales are attached to Se-rich structures and possibly a

57 Beaked whales are deep diving elusive animals, difficult to cen

58 trends is problematic, in part because minke whales are frequently sighted within Antarctic sea ice w

59 erves in the floor of the oral cavity of fin whales are highly extensible.

60 Beaked whales are hypothesized to be particularly sensitive to

61 The songs of humpback whales are one of the most striking examples of the tran

62 The social relationships of sperm whales are organized in a multilevel society with an upp

63 nformation for monitoring of health in right whales, as well as a framework for integrating observati

64 ismatic marine megafauna from albatrosses to whales, as well as consuming carbon dioxide and producin

65 in ice conditions, affect the proportion of whales available to be counted by traditional shipboard

66 fundamental and overtone frequencies of blue whale B calls can be well modeled using a series of shor

67 . borealis), Bryde's whale (B. edeni), minke whale (B. acutorostrata), and humpback whale (Megaptera

68 tera musculus), fin whale (B. physalus), sei whale (B. borealis), Bryde's whale (B. edeni), minke wha

69 physalus), sei whale (B. borealis), Bryde's whale (B. edeni), minke whale (B. acutorostrata), and hu

70 the blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus), fin whale (B. physalus), sei whale (B. borealis), Bryde's wh

71 ed the retina of the closely related bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus; family Balaenidae) to determi

72 se on the communication space of the Bryde's whale Balaenoptera edeni, an endangered species which vo

73 whales (Balaenopteridae), including the blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus), fin whale (B. physalus),

74 en reconstructed for an individual male blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus, Linnaeus 1758) using the e

75 y fitting tri-axial movement sensors to blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus), and by recording the dir

76 Rorqual whales (Balaenopteridae) are among the largest vertebrat

77 any previous studies have shown that rorqual whales (Balaenopteridae), including the blue whale (Bala

78 ble to filter-feeding duck beak lamellae and whale baleen plates, as well as the fluid mechanics of v

79 The minke whale-based feed contained a summation operatorPOPs conc

80 redominantly occurred at depth (>70 m), with whales being more likely to rotate clockwise around thei

81 the underwater behavior of a Baird's beaked whale (Berardius bairdii) from the first deployment of a

82 were given a diet of POP-contaminated minke whale blubber, whereas their eight male siblings were fe

83 our analysis of these features in the minke whale brain.

84 n and flowed passively into the mouth of the whale by the current created by the lower mandible break

85 Nerves in the mouth of the rorqual whale can double in length during feeding, without incur

86 but a few species such as humans and killer whales can live decades after their last reproduction.

87 Our study also shows that whales can modulate their responses to fluctuating level

88 The pygmy right whale, Caperea marginata, is the most enigmatic living w

89 a small species (~2.5 cm long), found near a whale carcass at 631 m depth in Monterey Submarine Canyo

90 Whales caught their prey using a series of coordinated m

91 ere significantly higher than those found in whales collected around the world prior to the spill.

92 Regulation of Whaling, and the International Whaling Commission in particular, for other internationa

93 minke whales is central to the International Whaling Commission's conservation and management work an

94 Mediterranean fin whales comprise a genetically distinct population, liste

95 ss the regions in our model, overall, killer whales consume the largest biomass of Chinook salmon, bu

96 aling regulation after World War II, illegal whaling continued for decades [3].

97 ds, and large-scale redistributions of sperm whale cultural clans in the Pacific have likely changed

98 An annual increase in the number of whale deaths comparable to that observed during the summ

99 zone wedges (GZWs) on the outer shelf of the Whales Deep Basin.

100 High trophic level arctic beluga whales (Delphinapterus leucas) are exposed to persistent

101 ions have increased in western Arctic beluga whales (Delphinapterus leucas) since the industrial revo

102 been investigated for Pacific Arctic beluga whales (Delphinapterus leucas) that follow matrilineally

103 ntify the role of prey availability on right whale demographic transitional probabilities and use a c

104 gradient of ice conditions to estimate minke whale density in the Weddell Sea.

105 In contrast, humpback whale diets are dominated by schooling fish when the NPG

106 Humpback whale diets captured two major shifts in oceanographic a

107 tion of predator vocalizations by male sperm whales disrupted functional behaviours and mediated prev

108 red with other feeding behaviors because the whales do not swim forward in pursuit of prey during the

109 Odontocetes (toothed whales, dolphins and porpoises) hunt and navigate throug

110 The exception is Cetacea (whales, dolphins, and porpoises), in which DG size, conv

111 aled diverse microbial communities in kogiid whales dominated by Firmicutes and Bacteroidetes.

112 d hosts compared to other toothed and baleen whales, driven by differences in symbiont membership.

113 ondition of these ice edge-associated beluga whales during these two years.

114 The use of a whale earplug to reconstruct lifetime chemical profiles

115 In this report, we describe a new xenorophid whale (Echovenator sandersi, gen. et sp.nov.) from the O

116 sent-day populations of North Pacific killer whale ecotypes have a complex ancestry, confounding the

117 genomic variation among North Pacific killer whale ecotypes resulting from multiple colonisation even

118 nalysing population genomic data from killer whale ecotypes, which we estimate have globally radiated

119 mediately before prey capture, both bats and whales emit a buzz with such high emission rates (>/= 18

120 In these whales, engulfment coincided largely with body decelerat

121 Sequence analysis of right whale (Eubalaena glacialis; family Balaenidae) cDNA deri

122 Rorqual whales exhibit an extreme lunge filter-feeding strategy

123 Krill-feeding blue and humpback whales exhibited temporally distinct acceleration and en

124 The ventral grooved blubber in fin whales expands by an estimated 162% in the circumferenti

125 Most notably, we report evidence of bowhead whale exploitation by the Saqqaq culture 4,000 years ago

126 After the discovery of whale fall communities in modern oceans, it has been hyp

127 ones prior to final burial, unlike in modern whale falls where organisms such as the ubiquitous bone-

128 ulfilled similar ecological roles to shallow whale falls, and did not support specialized chemosynthe

129 Mass stranding of several species of beaked whales (family Ziphiidae) associated with exposure to an

130 that have ever lived on Earth (Blue and Fin whales) feed in the Arctic and Southern Oceans.

131 oth the downward and upward direction of the whale (Figure S1).

132 al function for the uniquely shaped humpback whale flipper.

133 t by synchronously tracking predator (killer whales, [Formula: see text] = 1; representing a family g

134 he paleotopographic implications of a beaked whale fossil (Ziphiidae) from the Turkana region of Keny

135 re not significant, supporting the idea that whales from different calving grounds mix in migratory c

136 nearities in the song repertoire of humpback whales from the Ste Marie channel (Madagascar) to provid

137 sue was sampled from hunter-harvested beluga whales from the western Canadian Arctic in 2008 and 2010

138 Here, we sequenced the fin whale genome and analysed FGFs from 8 cetaceans.

139 sequencing and de novo assembly of the minke whale genome, as well as the whole-genome sequences of t

140 Overall the whale-genome sequences exhibited distinct features that

141 whales (Orcinus orca) and short-finned pilot whales (Globicephala macrorhynchus) [3, 4]-have comparab

142 scle from juvenile male North Atlantic pilot whales (Globicephala melas) harvested between 1986 and 2

143 g activity to free-ranging long-finned pilot whales (Globicephala melas).

144 ey availability and/or an expansion of right whale habitat into unprotected waters.

145 GOM site, both Gervais' and Cuvier's beaked whales had a high density throughout the monitoring peri

146 ured the duration of feeding events when the whales had a wide-open mouth mostly above the sea surfac

147 -reproductive females can explain why killer whales have evolved the longest post-reproductive lifesp

148 ses in Arctic killer whale sightings, killer whales have the potential to reshape Arctic marine mamma

149 ansduces the lowest frequencies of the pilot whales hearing spectrum.

150 sandersi, 2 hippos, and 23 fossil and extant whales in a phylogenetic context, we conclude that ultra

151 leen whales and experimental work on toothed whales in captivity.

152 markers in different brain regions of beluga whales in order to assess potential neurotoxicological r

153 rom two mass strandings of long-finned pilot whales in Scotland were processed for scanning electron

154 nd shows that the resulting SPPR for toothed whales in the Icelandic marine ecosystem is 2.8 times hi

155 he past was a world of giants, with abundant whales in the sea and large animals roaming the land.

156 ppm in tissue collected from Gulf of Mexico whales in the wake of the crisis.

157 RPA I, JARPA II) and the origins of the case Whaling in the Antarctic (Australia v.

158 Generally, all species of baleen whale, including rorqual whales, show active chasing and

159 nfunctional in Odontoceti cetaceans (toothed whales, including dolphins and orcas).

160 thin 3 minutes of exposure onset, the tagged whale increased swim speed and body movement, and contin

161 nook salmon consumed by pinnipeds and killer whales increased from 6,100 to 15,200 metric tons (from

162 become silent (21% of cases), whereas pilot whales increased surface resting during sonar exposure.

163 The surveys revealed substantial numbers of whales inside the sea ice.

164 Culture seems to have driven killer whales into distinct ecotypes, which may be incipient sp

165 ssion seems key in the partitioning of sperm whales into sympatric clans.

166 Estimating abundance of Antarctic minke whales is central to the International Whaling Commissio

167 t subsurface behaviour in short-finned pilot whales is more complex than a simple dichotomy of deep a

168 Diving behaviour of short-finned pilot whales is often described by two states; deep foraging a

169 ts role in attenuating Hg toxicity in beluga whales is poorly understood.

170 during a lunge can exceed the volume of the whale itself [2].

171 When a whale kept its upper jaw above the sea surface, many anc

172 old and represents the oldest derived beaked whale known, consistent with molecular estimates of the

173 polar bears (PB; Ursus maritimus) and killer whales (KW; Orcinus orca) were used for in vitro concent

174 (SDs), bottlenose dolphins (BNDs) and killer whales (KWs) had mean PCB levels that markedly exceeded

175 , mirroring the empirical clans, emerge when whales learn preferentially the most common codas (confo

176 While baleen whales like many vocal learners use this skill in song d

177 ly, Caperea represents the only major baleen whale lineage entirely restricted to the Southern Ocean.

178 omic analysis identified an expansion in the whale lineage of gene families associated with stress-re

179 pecies of larger mammal bones such as bison, whale, llama, etc., the calibration curve showed a slowe

180 The evolution of whales marks one of the major transitions in the history

181 Introduction of a nonaxial His into sperm whale Mb at the topologically equivalent position and in

182 HNE became covalently bound to sperm whale Mb at up to five sites based on ESI-MS analysis.

183 mussel tissue, squid muscle, crab claw meat, whale meat, cod muscle, Greenland halibut muscle and dog

184 minke whale (B. acutorostrata), and humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae), employ a strategy called

185 Compared to other cetaceans, humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) have disproportionately

186 il feeding, through a population of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) over a period of 27 year

187 el of the human tooth and the rostrum of the whale Mesoplodon densirostris are two highly mineralized

188 yptic deep ocean cetacean, the Gray's beaked whale (Mesoplodon grayi).

189 tes of the emergence of modern strap-toothed whales (Mesoplodon).

190 tial amino acid synthesis pathways in baleen whale microbiomes more closely resemble those of terrest

191 he first phenological study examining beluga whale migrations within the context of their rapidly tra

192 cies (Chinese hamster, elephant shark, minke whale), 'mined the web' for DNA sequences and expanded t

193 o understanding and tracking shifts in large whale movements over long time scales.

194 In fin whales, multiple lunges can occur during a single dive,

195 housand in delta(202)Hg values between pilot whale muscle tissue and Faroese whalers' hair but no mas

196 Engineered variants of sperm whale myoglobin catalyze this synthetically valuable C-C

197 site within the heme distal pocket of sperm whale myoglobin has offered well-defined diiron clusters

198 3-dimensional structure of a protein, sperm-whale myoglobin, worthy of a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in

199 iverged from the ancestors of filter-feeding whales (mysticetes).

200 Rorquals differ from other baleen whales (Mysticeti) in possessing longitudinal furrows or

201 terns of the endangered North Atlantic right whale (NARW; Eubalaena glacialis) population in recent y

202 Three ecotypes of killer whale occur in partial sympatry in the North Pacific.

203 rding tags (DTAGs) deployed on 20 individual whales off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, USA.

204 nge of animals, from fruit flies to humpback whales, operating in either air or water, natural propul

205 s or Odontoceti (arginine at 156) and baleen whales or Mysticeti (glutamine at 156).

206 ineages uniquely associated with the toothed whales or Odontoceti (arginine at 156) and baleen whales

207 Only two other species-killer whales (Orcinus orca) and short-finned pilot whales (Glo

208 ion by three species of pinnipeds and killer whales (Orcinus orca) on Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus ts

209 fferentiated sympatric populations of killer whales (Orcinus orca).

210 s in the endangered Southern Resident killer whale population by addressing modulation by prey availa

211 The North Atlantic right whale population is currently the focus of conservation

212 Contrary to previous predictions, the right whale population is projected to recover in the future a

213 tically endangered, Southern Resident killer whale population of the northeastern Pacific Ocean provi

214 ry and ecological importance of songs to fin whale populations is needed.

215 nd widespread population reductions in great whale populations over the past few centuries.

216 che modelling, and showed that 80% of tagged whale positions was near (<7 km) the closest suitable ha

217 ts indicate a northward range shift in right whale prey, potentially resulting in decreased prey avai

218 ly with body deceleration; however, humpback whales pursuing more agile fish demonstrated highly vari

219 This strategy involves the rorqual whale rapidly engulfing a huge volume of prey-laden wate

220 Testosterone profiles suggest this male blue whale reached sexual maturity at approximately 10 y of a

221 eration and engulfment phases, with humpback whales reaching maximum gape earlier than blue whales.

222 ita, at 1.4 meters and the largest, the blue whale, reaching 33 meters.

223 Despite whaling regulation after World War II, illegal whaling c

224 Odontocetes (toothed whales) rely upon echoes of their own vocalizations to n

225 steadily for 10 d, the duration that killer whales remained in Admiralty Inlet.

226 discovery of tread-water feeding in Bryde's whales represents the first report of passive feeding in

227 I then describe the Japanese Whale Research Programs Under Special Permit in the Anta

228 We examine humpback whale response to environmental variability through stab

229 strategy that conveys information about the whale's body size and physical fitness, and thus may be

230 efficiency of foraging is driven both by the whale's engulfment capacity and the comparative locomoto

231 ow-dimensional biomechanical modeling of the whale's U-fold (vocal folds homolog) is used to relate s

232 A total of 140 killer whale scat samples collected from 54 unique whales acros

233 The whale shark (Rhincodon typus) is the largest extant spec

234 es of Fauna and Flora (CITES), including the whale shark (Rhincodon typus), which was surprisingly fo

235 tion, number and arrangement of the genes in whale shark mitogenome are the same as found in the mito

236 niformes and Carcharhiniformes, although the whale shark mitogenome had a slightly longer control reg

237 e also performed comparative analysis of the whale shark mitogenome to the available mitogenome seque

238 the mitochondrial genome (mitogenome) of the whale shark obtained by next-generation sequencing metho

239 The availability of mitogenome sequence of whale shark will aid studies of molecular systematics, b

240 spension-feeding fishes such as goldfish and whale sharks retain prey without clogging their oral fil

241 M sleep, it is unclear whether the mysticete whales show a similar sleep pattern.

242 Killer whales show strong specialization on prey choice in popu

243 l species of baleen whale, including rorqual whales, show active chasing and feeding, i.e., skimming,

244 Whales showing this behavior were observed on 58 occasio

245 t has been suggested that the lack of beaked whale sightings is the result of their low abundance, bu

246 ns in sea ice and increases in Arctic killer whale sightings, killer whales have the potential to res

247 Fin whale songs were analyzed from data collected from 2000-

248 Fin whale songs, which consist of short pulses repeated at r

249 us may be an important component of humpback whale songs.

250 ponses of long-finned pilot whales to killer whale sound playbacks and two anthropogenic sources of d

251 Blue whale sound production has been thought to occur by Helm

252 Killer whale sounds elicited increased calling rates and the ag

253 Beaked whale species detected include: Gervais' (Mesoplodon eur

254 The four key baleen whale species of the region: fin, humpback, blue and min

255 nsion with evidence that caribou, walrus and whale species played a more prominent role for the survi

256 rrent information, it seems that some beaked whale species require relatively high quality habitat in

257 tic foraging behavior in this largest beaked whale species, and the first experimental demonstration

258 Our analysis also identified whale-specific mutations in genes encoding antioxidants

259 Sea, the endangered Southern Resident Killer Whale (SRKW) is a high trophic indicator of ecosystem he

260 models, we show that the presence of killer whales strongly alters the behavior and distribution of

261 ing and the failure to successfully regulate whaling that led to the commercial moratorium in 1986.

262 In killer whales the ecotype divisions, together with founding bot

263 f emerged by convergent evolution in toothed whales, the only other mammals with a prolonged post-rep

264 ordination, suggesting that, in social pilot whales, this could drive behavioural responses to distur

265 d for measuring POP concentrations in killer whales through scat employed in this study may improve t

266 investigated responses of long-finned pilot whales to killer whale sound playbacks and two anthropog

267 is an active sense enabling bats and toothed whales to orient in darkness through echo returns from t

268 The whale traveled from the Indian Ocean inland along an eas

269 These findings demonstrate that humpback whales trophically respond to ecosystem shifts, and as a

270 Southern hemisphere humpback whales undertake the longest migrations and associated p

271 All whales undertook mid- to long-distance migrations, cross

272 at are involved in sexual selection, toothed whales use learned signals in individual recognition and

273 Toothed whales use sonar to detect, locate, and track prey.

274 esented for the density estimation of beaked whales, using passive acoustic monitoring data collected

275 This implies that the frequency of blue whale vocalizations might be directly proportional to th

276 hypothesis, we conducted playbacks of killer whale vocalizations recorded during herring-feeding acti

277 three species of marine mammals (the killer whale, walrus and manatee) from three mammalian orders t

278 he shift from terrestrial to aquatic life by whales was a substantial evolutionary event.

279 receptor variant found in the larger baleen whales was functionally less responsive to its endogenou

280 rom Beaufort Sea foraging regions by Chukchi whales was postponed in the late period.

281 For Gervais' and Cuvier's beaked whales, we estimated weekly animal density using two met

282 ci) and sex from 128 individually-identified whales, we find significant differentiation among winter

283 he oil, and their elevated concentrations in whales, we suggest that metal exposure is an important u

284 Yakut horse, Mammoth, Polar bear, and Minke whale were chosen.

285 Between 2012 and 2015 thirteen fin whales were equipped with satellite transmitters, 8 in t

286 ralization were related to where and how the whales were feeding in the water column.

287 When killer whales were present (within about 100 km), narwhal moved

288 t the monitoring period, but Cuvier's beaked whales were present only seasonally, with periods of low

289 wo sites in the western GOM, Gervais' beaked whales were present throughout the monitoring period, bu

290 Recordings of living humpback whales were searched for occurrences of vocal nonlineari

291 (Kogia breviceps) and dwarf (K. sima) sperm whales were used to characterize the gut microbiomes of

292 ue long-term dataset on wild resident killer whales, where females can live decades after their final

293 el is similar to those proposed for humpback whales, where valve open/closure and vocal fold oscillat

294 ed from those previously reported in toothed whales, which exhibited low diversity communities domina

295 In the upper Gulf of Thailand, Bryde's whales, which feed on small fish species [3], predominan

296 he first report of passive feeding in baleen whales, which indicates their flexible capacity to modif

297 escribes the head-lifting feeding by Bryde's whales, which is distinct from the typical lunge feeding

298 Here we show that baleen whales, which prey on animals (fish and crustaceans), ha

299 The five species of whale with matrilineal social systems have remarkably lo

300 he harbor porpoise were present in the minke whale, with no specific nuclei being absent, and no nove