The Sea Otter
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Sea otter health: Challenging a pet hypothesis
A recent series of studies on tagged sea otters (Enhydra lutris nereis) challenges the hypothesis that sea otters are sentinels of a dirty ocean, in particular, that pet cats are the main source of exposure to Toxoplasma gondii in central California. Counter to expectations, sea otters from unpopulated stretches of coastline are less healthy and more exposed to parasites than city-associated ot...
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The northern sea otter inhabits coastal waters of the northern Pacific Ocean and is the largest member of the Mustelidae family. DNA sequencing methods that utilize microfluidic partitioned and non-partitioned library construction were used to establish the sea otter genome. The final assembly provided 2.426 Gbp of highly contiguous assembled genomic sequences with a scaffold N50 length of over...
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Sarcocystis neurona is an important cause of fatal disease in sea otters in the USA. Encephalitis is the predominant lesion and parasites are confined to the central nervous system and muscles. Here we report retinochoroiditis in a sea otter (Enhydra lutris kenyoni) found dead on Copalis Beach, WA, USA. Salient lesions were confined to the brain and eye. Multifocal nonsuppurative meningoencepha...
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Sea otters (Enhydra lutris) are known to forage extensively in both rocky and soft-bottom habitats throughout their range in Alaska. Their ability to significantly reduce prey abundance, limit prey size, and consequently alter community structure has been well documented. Much of this research, however, has focused on sea otter interactions with rocky habitats and associated epifaunal invertebr...
متن کاملGenetic diversity among sea otter isolates of Toxoplasma gondii.
Sea otters (Enhydra lutris) have been reported to become infected with Toxoplasma gondii and at times succumb to clinical disease. Here, we determined genotypes of 39 T. gondii isolates from 37 sea otters in two geographically distant locations (25 from California and 12 from Washington). Six genotypes were identified using 10 PCR-RFLP genetic markers including SAG1, SAG2, SAG3, BTUB, GRA6, c22...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Oryx
سال: 1957
ISSN: 0030-6053,1365-3008
DOI: 10.1017/s003060530003948x