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California sea lion Pammysue

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Whale disentanglement

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Identifying highly used Dungeness crab fleet fishing areas off central and northern California to inform entanglement risks of large whales
Gray whale in San Francisco Bay

Research Paper

Gray whales (Eschrichtius robustus) in San Francisco Bay experience high mortality and have limited affiliation to known foraging groups

Research Paper

High pathogenicity avian influenza in pinniped conservation
Bottlenose dolphins

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The dolphin FRESH protocol: Visual Freshwater-Related Evaluation of Skin Health in free-ranging bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops spp.)
California sea lions

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Cross-species exome sequencing reveals recurrent genomic alterations in California sea lion (Zalophus californianus) urogenital carcinoma and highlights a recurrent PD-L1 variant
Sea otter

Research Paper

Parasite genotype is a risk factor for Sarcocystis neurona-associated mortality in southern sea otters