financially supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(grant no.2022YFF1301602);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(grant nos.32270442,31872219,31370401,32030011,31630071,and 31772448);the National Key Programme of Research and Development,Ministry of Science and Technology(grant no.2016YFC0503200);the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions(PAPD).
The marine environment presents challenges for wound healing in cetaceans,despite their remarkable recovery abilities with minimal infections or complications.However,the molecular mechanism underlying this efficient ...
supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(grant No.2018YFD0900904,2022YFF1301603);the INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant No.152342KYSB20190025).
Cetaceans are unique ecological engineers,and their restoration may have a crucial impact on the future structure of aquatic ecosystems,which calls for more investigations into their trophic ecology.Among current tech...
Cetaceans are aquatic mammals living in an environment that is more suited for hearing than vision.As such,their sensory systems largely utilize acoustic cues for navigation,communication,foraging,and predator avoidan...
supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(Grant number 2016YFC0300803);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(41406182,41306169 and 41422604);the incubating program of Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering,Chinese Academy of Sciences(Y960041001);the biodiversity investigation,observation and assessment program(2019-2023)of Ministry of Ecology and Environment of China;Ocean Park Conservation Foundation Hong Kong(AW02-1920).
A pioneering boat-based survey was conducted in 2019,to gather baseline information regarding the presence,composition,relative abundance,and spatial distribution of deep-diving and off-shore cetaceans in the northern...
The data analysis and paper writing were financially supported by the“One Belt and One Road”Science and Technology Cooperation Special Program of the International Partnership Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant number 183446KYSB20200016);the Indian Ocean Ninety-East Ridge Ecosystem and Marine Environment Monitoring and Protection,Supported by the China Ocean Mineral Resources R&D Association(no.DY135-E2-4)。
Scientific information is vital to the conservation of cetaceans and the management of whale-watching activities.The southern coastal waters of Sri Lanka are near a narrow continental shelf and biologically abundant i...
This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(41806157);the Natural Science Foundation of Hainan Province(417213);the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Reproductive hormones in serum concentrations of progesterone,estradiol,and testosterone in female Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins(Tursiops aduncus,n=12)housed in Ocean Park Hong Kong were investigated in the present...
This research was supported by grants from the Bu-reau of Science&Technology for Development,the Chinese Academy of Sciences(No.ZSSD-004);the National Key Programme of Research and Develop-ment of Ministry of Science and Technology of China(2016YFC0503200).
The mammalian intestinal microbiome is critical for host health and disease resistance.However,the cetacean intestinal microbiota remains relatively unexplored.By using high-throughput 16S rRNA gene sequencing,we anal...
Cetacean morbillivirus(CeMV),the most relevant pathogen impacting the health and conservation of several already threatened cetacean populations worldwide(Van Bressem et al.2014),has shown in recent years an apparentl...
The National Natural Science Foundation for Young Scholars of China under contract No.41506164;the foundation of the State Oceanic Administration of China under contract No.201105011;the Natural Science Foundation for Young Scholars of Fujian Province under contract No.2017J05062;China-ASEAN maritime cooperation fund under contract No.HX150702;the foundation of the Ministry of Agriculture of the People’s Republic of China under contract No.1070413701307;the Ocean Park Conservation Foundation,Hong Kong(OPCFHK)under contract No.MM03_1617
The analysis of cetacean strandings can provide fundamental information about species diversity and composition in a particular region. The present study collected and analyzed cetacean strandings, bycatches and rescu...
Years after the documentary Blackfish made the capture,imprisonment and display of marine mammals taboo in the West,China is just beginning to dive into the act,opening its own versions of SeaWorld and paving the way ...