Molecular and Cell Biology of Marine Mammals Book

	List of Contributors	ix
	Foreword	xv
	Preface	xvii
Section I	Cetacean Molecular Genetics
Chapter 1	The Molecular Profile of a Resident Community of Bottlenose Dolphins, Tursiops truncatus	3
Chapter 2	Resource Specialization and the Evolution of Population Genetic Structure in Delphinid Species	12
Chapter 3	Mitochondrial DNA Variability of Striped Dolphins in European Waters	21
Chapter 4	Inferring Population Structure Through Molecular Genetics: The Case of the Harbor Porpoise	34
Chapter 5	Social and Population Genetic Structure of Sperm Whales Assessed by Molecular Genetic Analyses	43
Chapter 6	Molecular Genetic Studies of Population Structure and Movement Patterns in a Migratory Species: The Beluga Whale, Delphinapterus leucas, in the Western Nearctic	53
Chapter 7	Right Whale, Eubalaena, Molecular Ecology	65
Chapter 8	Worldwide Distribution and Diversity of Humpback Whale Mitochondrial DNA Lineages	84
Chapter 9	Reconstructing the Rorqual Phylogeny: With Comments on the Use of Molecular and Morphological Data for Systematic Study	100
Chapter 10	Rates of Mitochondrial DNA Evolution Are Slower in Mysticete Relative to Odontocete Cetaceans	111
Section II	Pinniped and Sirenian Molecular Genetics
Chapter 11	Genetic Variation in Elephant Seals	121
Chapter 12	Genetic Diversity and Substructure of the Pacific Harbor Seal, Phoca vitulina richardsi	130
Chapter 13	Molecular Ecology of Atlantic Harbor Seals, Phoca vitulina	138
Chapter 14	Interspecific Comparison of Mitochondrial DNA Variation Among Extant Species of Sirenians	152
Section III	Advances in the Detection of Marine Mammal Diseases
Chapter 15	Molecular Biology of Morbillivirus Diseases of Marine Mammals	161
Chapter 16	Immunocytochemical Studies of Morbillivirus Infection in Striped Dolphins	173
Chapter 17	Immunohistochemistry of Morbillivirus Infections in Seals, Harbor Porpoises, and Bottlenose Dolphins	178
Chapter 18	Molecular Identification of the Infective Agent of Lobo's Disease of Dolphins	186
Chapter 19	Application of ELISA Methodology for Detection of Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae Antibody Titers in Cetaceans	193
Chapter 20	Manatees and Brevetoxicosis	205
Chapter 21	Cytopathology of Cutaneous Viral Papillomatosis in the Killer Whale, Orcinus orca	213
Chapter 22	Micronuclei Induction by Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Isolated Beluga Whale Skin Fibroblasts	225
Section IV	Cellular and Molecular Immunology
Chapter 23	Cellular Immunology of Cetaceans	235
Chapter 24	Methods for Purification and Study of Cetacean Immunoglobulins	245
Chapter 25	Immune Response, Stress, and Environment: Implications for Cetaceans	253
Chapter 26	Immunohistochemistry in Cetaceans	280
Chapter 27	The Cytokines of Marine Mammals: Biological Properties and Molecular Analysis	289
Chapter 28	Isolation, Cloning, Sequencing, and Expression of Marine Mammal Interleukin 2	300
Section V	Cell Biology and Ultrastructure
Chapter 29	Cellular and Molecular Investigations Utilizing a Bottlenose Dolphin Epithelial Cell Line	313
Chapter 30	A Comparative Molecular Cytogenetic Characterization of the Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphin, Tursiops truncatus	328
Chapter 31	In Vitro Maturation and Fertilization of Minke Whale, Balaenoptera acutorostrata, Follicular Oocytes	344
Chapter 32	Cellular Signal Transduction Pathways in Atlantic Spotted Dolphin Renal Cells	356
Chapter 33	Cloning and Expression of Dolphin Opsin Sequences and a Mechanism of Spectral Tuning	364
Chapter 34	Fine Structure of the Tapetum Fibrosum, Retinal Epithelium, and Photoreceptors of the Beluga Whale, Delphinapterus leucas	381
Chapter 35	Cellular Ultrastructural and Biochemical Specializations in the Cetacean Epidermis	396
Chapter 36	Cetacean Oral and Lingual Epithelium: Cell and Subcellular Structure	412
	Selected Subject Index	425