Fatty Acid Composition in Blubber, Liver, and Muscle of Marine Mammals in the Southern Baltic Sea
Marine mammals play an important role in marine ecosystems. However, as they are less accessible for research, relatively little is known about their physiology compared to terrestrial mammals. The stranding scheme of the Deutsches Meeresmuseum (Stralsund, Germany) continuously collects strandings a...
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fthuberlin:oai:edoc.hu-berlin.de:18452/22619 2023-12-03T10:23:46+01:00 Fatty Acid Composition in Blubber, Liver, and Muscle of Marine Mammals in the Southern Baltic Sea Dannenberger, Dirk Möller, Ramona Westphal, Linda Moritz, Timo Dähne, Michael Grunow, Bianka 2020-08-26 application/pdf http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/18452/22619 https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-110-18452/22619-5 https://doi.org/10.3390/ani10091509 https://doi.org/10.18452/21904 eng eng Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/18452/22619 urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-110-18452/22619-5 doi:10.3390/ani10091509 http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/21904 2076-2615 (CC BY 4.0) Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Baltic Sea blubber fatty acids grey seals harbour porpoise liver muscle 590 Tiere (Zoologie) ddc:590 article doc-type:article publishedVersion 2020 fthuberlin https://doi.org/10.3390/ani1009150910.18452/21904 2023-11-05T23:35:52Z Marine mammals play an important role in marine ecosystems. However, as they are less accessible for research, relatively little is known about their physiology compared to terrestrial mammals. The stranding scheme of the Deutsches Meeresmuseum (Stralsund, Germany) continuously collects strandings and by-catches of marine mammals in the Baltic Sea in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. In this project, the fatty acid composition of the liver, skeletal muscles, and blubber of harbour porpoises and grey seals from the southern Baltic Sea was investigated for the first time. In the liver and blubber tissue, the values and concentrations measured for both species are consistent with studies on other marine mammals. In a direct comparison of the focus species, the skeletal muscles of harbour porpoises exhibit higher concentrations of fatty acids than those of grey seals. In the future, these studies will be extended to the entire Baltic Sea, as we suspect that fatty acid composition can be used to determine the nutritional status of the animals and thus will allow for an objective assessment of the body condition. Peer Reviewed Article in Journal/Newspaper Harbour porpoise Open-Access-Publikationsserver der Humboldt-Universität: edoc-Server Animals 10 9 1509 |
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Baltic Sea blubber fatty acids grey seals harbour porpoise liver muscle 590 Tiere (Zoologie) ddc:590 Dannenberger, Dirk Möller, Ramona Westphal, Linda Moritz, Timo Dähne, Michael Grunow, Bianka Fatty Acid Composition in Blubber, Liver, and Muscle of Marine Mammals in the Southern Baltic Sea |
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Marine mammals play an important role in marine ecosystems. However, as they are less accessible for research, relatively little is known about their physiology compared to terrestrial mammals. The stranding scheme of the Deutsches Meeresmuseum (Stralsund, Germany) continuously collects strandings and by-catches of marine mammals in the Baltic Sea in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. In this project, the fatty acid composition of the liver, skeletal muscles, and blubber of harbour porpoises and grey seals from the southern Baltic Sea was investigated for the first time. In the liver and blubber tissue, the values and concentrations measured for both species are consistent with studies on other marine mammals. In a direct comparison of the focus species, the skeletal muscles of harbour porpoises exhibit higher concentrations of fatty acids than those of grey seals. In the future, these studies will be extended to the entire Baltic Sea, as we suspect that fatty acid composition can be used to determine the nutritional status of the animals and thus will allow for an objective assessment of the body condition. Peer Reviewed |
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Dannenberger, Dirk Möller, Ramona Westphal, Linda Moritz, Timo Dähne, Michael Grunow, Bianka |
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Dannenberger, Dirk Möller, Ramona Westphal, Linda Moritz, Timo Dähne, Michael Grunow, Bianka |
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Fatty Acid Composition in Blubber, Liver, and Muscle of Marine Mammals in the Southern Baltic Sea |
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Fatty Acid Composition in Blubber, Liver, and Muscle of Marine Mammals in the Southern Baltic Sea |
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Fatty Acid Composition in Blubber, Liver, and Muscle of Marine Mammals in the Southern Baltic Sea |
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Fatty Acid Composition in Blubber, Liver, and Muscle of Marine Mammals in the Southern Baltic Sea |
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Fatty Acid Composition in Blubber, Liver, and Muscle of Marine Mammals in the Southern Baltic Sea |
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fatty acid composition in blubber, liver, and muscle of marine mammals in the southern baltic sea |
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Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
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http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/18452/22619 https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-110-18452/22619-5 https://doi.org/10.3390/ani10091509 https://doi.org/10.18452/21904 |
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