Humpback whales washed ashore in southeastern Brazil from 1981 to 2011: Stranding patterns and microbial pathogens survey

Biologia (Poland)

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 992-999

  Moura, Jailson F ^a   Rodrigues, Dália P ^a   Roges, Emily M ^a   Souza, Roberta L ^a   Ott, Paulo H ^b   Tavares, Maurício ^c   Lemos, Leila S ^a   Tavares, Davi C ^a,d   Siciliano, Salvatore ^a  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DO RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DO NORTE FLUMINENSE DARCY RIBEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brazil; entanglement; Megaptera novaeangliae; pathogen; stranding

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883320913     PISSN: 00063088     EISSN: 13369563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/s11756-013-0237-8     Document Type: Article

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