Kathleen M Colegrove, Stephanie Venn-Watson, Jenny Litz, Michael J Kinsel, Karen A Terio, Erin Fougeres, Ruth Ewing, D Ann Pabst, William A McLellan, Stephen Raverty, Jeremiah Saliki, Spencer Fire, Gina Rappucci, Sabrina Bowen-Stevens, Lauren Noble, Alex Costidis, Michelle Barbieri, Cara Field, Suzanne Smith, Ruth H Carmichael, Connie Chevis, Wendy Hatchett, Delphine Shannon, Mandy Tumlin, Gretchen Lovewell, Wayne McFee, Teresa K Rowles
An unusual mortality event (UME) involving primarily common bottlenose dolphins Tursiops truncatus of all size classes stranding along coastal Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, USA, started in early 2010 and continued into 2014. During this northern Gulf of Mexico UME, a distinct cluster of perinatal dolphins (total body length <115 cm) stranded in Mississippi and Alabama during 2011. The proportion of annual dolphin strandings that were perinates between 2009 and 2013 were compared to baseline strandings (2000-2005)...
April 12, 2016: Diseases of Aquatic Organisms