Not just fat : investigating the proteome of cetacean blubber tissue

• Published in: Conservation Physiology
• Main Authors: Kershaw, Joanna, Brownlow, Andrew C., Botting, Catherine H., HALL, AILSA J.
• Other Authors: University of Aberdeen.Biological Sciences
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: SDG 14 - Life Below Water; Adipose tissue; biomarkers; marine mammals; metabolism; proteomics; QH301 Biology; Natural Environment Research Council (NERC); Wellcome Trust; 094476/Z/10/Z; QH301; Harbour porpoise
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/2164/23112; https://doi.org/10.1093/conphys/coy003

The authors would like to thank Nick Davison, Mariel ten Doeschate, Alicia Coupe and Barry McGovern from the Scottish Marine Animal Strandings Scheme for the collection of harbour porpoise blubber samples. The authors would also like to thank Dr James Turton for his advice on protein extraction methods, and Dr Douglas Lamont for his help and advice with data interpretation. The authors would like to thank the funders; the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) and Marine Scotland for a number of long-term monitoring contracts awarded to the Scottish Marine Animal Strandings Scheme, the Sea Mammal Research Unit National Capability Funding from the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), and the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP). This work was also supported by the Wellcome Trust (grant number 094476/Z/10/Z) which funded the purchase of the TripleTOF 5600 mass spectrometer at the Biomedical Sciences Research Complex (BSRC) Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics Facility, University of St Andrews Peer reviewed