: Greg O'Corry-Crowe, Robert Suydam. Data curation: Lori Quakenbush, Brooke Potgieter, Lois Harwood, Dennis Litovka, John Citta, Vladimir Burkanov, Kathy Frost, Barbara Mahoney. Formal analysis: Greg ... O'Corry-Crowe, Tatiana Ferrer. Project administration: Greg O'Corry-Crowe. Resources: Robert Suydam, Lori Quakenbush. Writing ± original draft: Greg O'Corry-Crowe. Writing ± review & editing: Robert
The evolution of baleen constituted a major evolutionary change that made it possible for baleen whales to reach enormous body sizes while filter feeding on tiny organisms and migrating over tremendous distances. Bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) live in the Arctic where the annual cycle of increasing and decreasing ice cover affects their habitat, prey, and migration. During...
Arctic marine mammals are facing increasing levels of many anthropogenic stressors. Novel tools are needed for assessment of stress physiology and potential impacts of these stressors on health, reproduction and survival. We have investigated baleen as a possible novel tissue type for retrospective assessment of stress and reproductive hormones. We found that pulverized baleen...
