Grey seal
Rapid changes in Atlantic grey seal milk from birth to weaning - immune factors and indicators of metabolic strain
... in grey seal milk but were then rapidly lost with time after birth, until little or none of either was detectable towards the end of lactation ...the seal milk, the 3′ ...
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The role of glucocorticoids in naturally fasting grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) pups: dexamethasone stimulates mass loss and protein utilisation, but not departure from the colony
... trade-offs grey seal pups face during the postweaning ...in grey seals by indirectly influencing diving abilities and the time available to find ...
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An approximate Bayesian method applied to estimating the trajectories of four British grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) populations from pup counts
... as grey seals (Halichoerus grypus), where young pups remain ashore and the rest of the population spends the majority of its time at sea, are an extreme example of this ...British grey seal ...
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A fine scale study finds limited evidence of kin clustering in a grey seal colony
... female grey seals pupping on different beaches within island colonies (Perry et ...larger grey seal breeding colony using microsatellites also found no evidence of fine-scale kin clustering in female ...
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Prevalence of Presenting Conditions in Grey Seal Pups (Halichoerus grypus) Admitted for Rehabilitation
... Barnett et al. [2] first reported presenting conditions of grey seal pups in UK rehabilitation centres, using data dating from 1992 until 1998. Since that time, a major European outbreak of phocine ...
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Assessing grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) diet in western Scotland
... Grey seals, until relatively recently, were viewed as a resource and were heavily hunted around Britain. It wasn’t until 1914 when the population had been reduced to a very low level that the Grey ...
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Corkscrew seals : grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) infanticide and cannibalism may indicate the cause of spiral lacerations in seals
... by grey seal ...i.e. grey seal predation is responsible for many or probably all of the recorded corkscrew mortalities iden- tified at the Isle of May since ...as grey seals are present ...
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Rapid changes in Atlantic grey seal milk from birth to weaning – immune factors and indicators of metabolic strain
... in grey seal milk but were then rapidly lost with time after birth, until little or none of either was detectable towards the end of lactation ...the seal milk, the 3′ ...
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Grey seal predation impairs recovery of an over-exploited fish stock
... 48 Keywords: Bayesian modelling, cod, fishery management, grey seals, misreported catch, 49 mortality rate, predation, stock assessment 50 Introduction 51 The diet of the grey seal Halic[r] ...
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The role of oxytocin in the maternal behaviour of the grey seal (Halichoerus grypus)
... behaviour grey seals ...a grey seal mother performs on her pup has been proven to be consistent within individual mothers but varies greatly across individuals on a colony (Twiss et ...on grey ...
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Grey seal predation mortality on three depleted stocks in the West of Scotland : what are the implications for stock assessments?
... Proportion of mature fish at age 1985-2012 ICES (2013) Mean fish weight at age in the total catch 1985-2012 ICES (2013) Fish landings at age (numbers) 1985-2012 ICES (2013) Fish discards at age (numbers) 1985-2012 ICES ...
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The effects of grey seal predation and commercial fishing on the recovery of a depleted cod stock
... Quantity Description Usage fy,2013 Fishing effort multiplier in base year Reference fishing effort 𝜎²f Process error on fishing effort Noise added to fishing effort Na,2013 Population nu[r] ...
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Bioeconomic modelling of grey seal predation impacts on the West of Scotland demersal fisheries
... Sensitivity test 1 Sensitivity to the Ricker stock-recruitment model 2 Schaefer parameters 3 4 Constant seal predation rate Constant effort for “Others” Change considered Beverton–Holt H[r] ...
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Control control control : a reassessment and comparison of GenBank and chromatogram mtDNA sequence variation in Baltic grey seals (Halichoerus grypus)
... In the Graves et al. study a total of 46 different haplotypes were reported (Table 5 in [8]). However, only 40 haplotypes were posted in GenBank and assembly of these 40 sequence files revealed nine pairs of identical ...
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A recombinant antigen based enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for lungworm detection in seals
... The ELISA for detection of antibodies against lung- worms utilises recombinantly expressed MSP fused with Schistosoma japonicum glutathione-S-transferase (GST-MSP) as antigen. Recombinant antigen produc- tion and ...
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Effects of mass and body composition on fasting fuel utilisation in grey seal pups (Halichoerus grypus Fabricius): an experimental study using supplementary feeding
... of the Controls. The disparity was even greater if increased energy use only occurred during and immediately after feeding, instead of throughout the fast as the average daily energy use values imply. This ...
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Multi decadal and ontogenetic trophic shifts inferred from stable isotope ratios of pinniped teeth
... archived grey seal canine teeth (held at the Sea Mammal Research Unit (SMRU), ...from grey seal carcasses stranded (n 16) or shot on the east coast of Scotland (n 9) between 56°10′N, ...
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Variability in individual rates of aggression in wild gray seals : fine scale analysis reveals importance of social and spatial stability
... Twiss SD, Anderson SS, Monaghan P 1998 Limited intra-specific variation in male grey seal Halichoerus grypus dominance relationships in relation to variation in male mating success and f[r] ...
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Relationship between heart rate and oxygen consumption during steady state swimming in California sea lions
... the substantial variations in heart rate associated with diving activity, Fedak 1986 demonstrated that there was a linear relationship between/H and VO2 in a grey seal during increasing [r] ...
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On the dynamics and selective transport of fatty acids and organochlorines in lactating grey seals (Halichoerus grypus)
... between grey seal ...lactating grey seals from the IOM and NR seem to be lower and seem to be declining in comparison to previous studies of similar ...
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