Northern pygmy right whales highlight Quaternary marine mammal interchange
The pygmy right whale, Caperea marginata, is the most enigmatic living whale. Little is known about its ecology and behaviour, but unusual specialisations of visual pigments [1], mitochondrial tRNAs [2], and postcranial anatomy [3] suggest a lifestyle different from that of other extant whales. Geog...
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ftunivpisairis:oai:arpi.unipi.it:11568/891503 2024-02-27T08:39:02+00:00 Northern pygmy right whales highlight Quaternary marine mammal interchange Tsai, Cheng-Hsiu Collareta, Alberto Fitzgerald, Erich M. G. Marx, Felix G. Kohno, Naoki Bosselaers, Mark Insacco, Gianni Reitano, Agatino Catanzariti, Rita Oishi, Masayuki Bianucci, Giovanni Tsai, Cheng-Hsiu Collareta, Alberto Fitzgerald, Erich M. G. Marx, Felix G. Kohno, Naoki Bosselaers, Mark Insacco, Gianni Reitano, Agatino Catanzariti, Rita Oishi, Masayuki Bianucci, Giovanni 2017 ELETTRONICO http://hdl.handle.net/11568/891503 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2017.08.056 https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(17)31096-5 eng eng info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/pmid/29017038 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/wos/WOS:000412561400008 volume:27 issue:19 firstpage:R1058 lastpage:R1059 numberofpages:2 journal:CURRENT BIOLOGY http://hdl.handle.net/11568/891503 doi:10.1016/j.cub.2017.08.056 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/scopus/2-s2.0-85030854128 https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(17)31096-5 info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology (all) Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all) info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2017 ftunivpisairis https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2017.08.056 2024-01-31T17:49:22Z The pygmy right whale, Caperea marginata, is the most enigmatic living whale. Little is known about its ecology and behaviour, but unusual specialisations of visual pigments [1], mitochondrial tRNAs [2], and postcranial anatomy [3] suggest a lifestyle different from that of other extant whales. Geographically, Caperea represents the only major baleen whale lineage entirely restricted to the Southern Ocean. Caperea-like fossils, the oldest of which date to the Late Miocene, are exceedingly rare and likewise limited to the Southern Hemisphere [4], despite a more substantial history of fossil sampling north of the equator. Two new Pleistocene fossils now provide unexpected evidence of a brief and relatively recent period in geological history when Caperea occurred in the Northern Hemisphere (Figure 1A,B). During the Pleistocene, glacial cooling allowed marine mammals to cross the tropics and disperse across both hemispheres, Here, Tsai et al. report fossil findings suggesting that pygmy right whales, Caperea marginata, occurred in the Northern Hemisphere during this era. Article in Journal/Newspaper baleen whale Southern Ocean ARPI - Archivio della Ricerca dell'Università di Pisa Southern Ocean Current Biology 27 19 R1058 R1059 |
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The pygmy right whale, Caperea marginata, is the most enigmatic living whale. Little is known about its ecology and behaviour, but unusual specialisations of visual pigments [1], mitochondrial tRNAs [2], and postcranial anatomy [3] suggest a lifestyle different from that of other extant whales. Geographically, Caperea represents the only major baleen whale lineage entirely restricted to the Southern Ocean. Caperea-like fossils, the oldest of which date to the Late Miocene, are exceedingly rare and likewise limited to the Southern Hemisphere [4], despite a more substantial history of fossil sampling north of the equator. Two new Pleistocene fossils now provide unexpected evidence of a brief and relatively recent period in geological history when Caperea occurred in the Northern Hemisphere (Figure 1A,B). During the Pleistocene, glacial cooling allowed marine mammals to cross the tropics and disperse across both hemispheres, Here, Tsai et al. report fossil findings suggesting that pygmy right whales, Caperea marginata, occurred in the Northern Hemisphere during this era. |
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Tsai, Cheng-Hsiu Collareta, Alberto Fitzgerald, Erich M. G. Marx, Felix G. Kohno, Naoki Bosselaers, Mark Insacco, Gianni Reitano, Agatino Catanzariti, Rita Oishi, Masayuki Bianucci, Giovanni |
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