A recent rise in the reporting of diseases in marine organisms has raised concerns that
ocean health is deteriorating. The goal of this study was to determine whether or not there …

Blooms of the marine diatom genus Pseudo-nitzschia that produce the neurotoxin domoic
acid have been documented with regularity along the coast of southern California since …

California sea lions are one of the major marine mammal species along the Pacific coast of
North America. Sea lions are susceptible to a wide variety of viruses, some of which can be …

ABSTRACT The California sea lion (Zalophus californianus) population in the United States
has increased steadily since the early 1970s. The Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 …

Harmful algal blooms are increasing worldwide, including those of Pseudo-nitzschia spp.
producing domoic acid off the California coast. This neurotoxin was first shown to cause …

The prevalence of cancer in wild California sea lions (Zalophus californianus) is one of the
highest amongst mammals, with 18–23% of adult animals examined post-mortem over the …

Domoic acid (DA), the causative agent for the human syndrome Amnesic Shellfish
Poisoning (ASP), is a potent, naturally occurring neurotoxin produced by common marine …

To understand the cause of death of 405 marine mammals stranded on Cape Cod and
southeastern Massachusetts between 2000 and 2006, a system for coding final diagnosis …

Market squid (Doryteuthis opalescens) constitute one of California's largest fisheries by
landings and are an essential prey item for numerous top predators in the California Current …

Although carrion ecology has received a great deal of scientific attention in recent years,
carrion supply is still poorly described in most ecosystems. Animals die from many causes …