Spondylitic changes in long-finned pilot whales (Globicephala melas) stranded on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA, between 1982 and 2000

Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 717-727

  Sweeny, Melinda M ^a   Price, Janet M ^b   Jones, Gwilym S ^c   French, Thomas W ^d   Early, Greg A ^a   Moore, Michael J ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b SUNOVION PHARMACEUTICALS INC   (United States)

^c NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife   (United States)

Author keywords

Ankylosing spondylitis; Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis; Globicephala melas; Long finned pilot whale; Stranded; Vertebral pathology

Indexed keywords

CETACEA; DELPHINIDAE; GLOBICEPHALA MELAS;

EID: 33144485706     PISSN: 00903558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7589/0090-3558-41.4.717     Document Type: Article

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