The Rostrum of “Mesoplodon”
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Chemistry of bone mineral, based on the hypermineralized rostrum of the beaked whale Mesoplodon densirostris.
Carbonate-substituted hydroxylapatite is the inorganic component in bone. The nanometer size of bone crystallites and their interweaving with subequal volumes of collagen fibrils make the chemical analysis of the bone mineral extremely difficult. The few chemical analyses that are available commonly were made on ashed bone, which, in addition to mineral, also includes chemical residues of colla...
متن کاملMESOPLODON BEAKED WHALES (Mesoplodon spp.): Western North Atlantic Stock
STOCK DEFINITION AND GEOGRAPHIC RANGE Within the genus Mesoplodon, there are four species of beaked whales that reside in the northwest Atlantic. These include True's beaked whale, Mesoplodon mirus; Gervais' beaked whale, M. europaeus; Blainville's beaked whale, M. densirostris; and Sowerby's beaked whale, M. bidens (Mead 1989). These species are difficult to identify to the species level at se...
متن کاملMESOPLODON BEAKED WHALES (Mesoplodon spp.): Western North Atlantic Stock
STOCK DEFINITION AND GEOGRAPHIC RANGE Within the genus Mesoplodon, there are four species of beaked whales that reside in the northwest Atlantic. These include True's beaked whale, Mesoplodon mirus; Gervais' beaked whale, M. europaeus; Blainville's beaked whale, M. densirostris; and Sowerby's beaked whale, M. bidens. These species are difficult to identify to the species level at sea; therefore...
متن کاملMESOPLODON BEAKED WHALES (Mesoplodon spp.): Western North Atlantic Stock
STOCK DEFINITION AND GEOGRAPHIC RANGE Within the genus Mesoplodon, there are four species of beaked whales that reside in the northwest Atlantic. These include True's beaked whale, Mesoplodon mirus; Gervais' beaked whale, M. europaeus; Blainville's beaked whale, M. densirostris; and Sowerby's beaked whale, M. bidens. These species are difficult to identify to the species level at sea; therefore...
متن کاملMESOPLODON BEAKED WHALES (Mesoplodon spp.): Western North Atlantic Stock
STOCK DEFINITION AND GEOGRAPHIC RANGE Within the genus Mesoplodon, there are four species of beaked whales that reside in the northwest Atlantic. These include T rue's beak ed wha le, Mesoplodon mirus; Gervais' b eaked w hale, M. europaeus; Blainville's beaked whale , M. densirostris ; and Sow erby's bea ked wh ale, M. bidens (Mead 1989). Th ese species are difficult to identify to the species ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nature
سال: 1900
ISSN: 0028-0836,1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/061490a0