Marine Mammal Genetics Group Publications 2005-2010

Bold indicates authors whoare or were MMGG members when the research was done

Archer,F.I., S.L. Mesnick, and A.C. Allen. 2010. Variation and predictors of vesselresponse behavior in a tropical dolphin community. U.S. Department of Commerce,NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS, NOAA-TM-NMFS-SWFSC-457, 53 p.

Archer,F.I., J.V. Redfern, T. Gerrodette, S.J. Chivers, and W.F. Perrin. 2010. Estimation of relative exposure of dolphins to fisheryactivity. Marine Ecology Progress Series 410:245-255.

Archer,F.I., A.E. Henry, and L.T. Ballance. 2008. Stenella abundanceresearch line transect and ecosystem (STAR-LITE) 2007 cruise report. U.S.Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS, NOAA-TM-NMFS-SWFSC-433,19 p.

Aurioles-Gamboa, D., Schramm, Y. and Mesnick, S.L. 2004. Galapagos fur seals (Arctocephalusgalapagoensis) in Mexico.Latin American Journal of Aquatic Mammals 3(1): 77-80.

Baird, R.W.,A.M. Gorgone, D.J. McSweeney, A.D. Ligon, M.H. Deakos, D.L. Webster, G.S.Schorr, K.K. Martien, D.R. Salden,S.D. Mahaffy.  2009.  Population structure of island-associateddolphins: Evidence from photo-identification of common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncates) in the main HawaiianIslands.  Marine Mammal Science, 25(2):251-274.

Barlow, J., Rojas-Bracho, L., Muños, C. and Mesnick, S.L. 2010. Conservation of theVaquita (Phocoena sinus) in thenorthern Gulf of California, Mexico.  In,Handbook of Marine Fisheries (eds., R.Q. Grafton, R.. Hilborn, D. Squires and M. Tait)p 205-214. Oxford University Press.

Barlow, J. and B. L.Taylor.  2005.  Estimates of sperm whale abundance in thenortheastern temperate Pacific from a combined acoustic and visual survey.  Marine Mammal Science 21(3):429-445.

Beasley, I., Robertson,K. M., and P. Arnold.  2005.  Descriptionof a new dolphin, the Australian Snubfin Dolphin Orcaella heinsohni sp.n. (Cetacea, Delphinidae). Marine Mammal Science 21(3):365-400.

Caballero, S., Barrios,  H., Mignucci-Giannoni, A., Beltrán, S.,Montiel, M. G., Robertson, K., andC. S. Baker.  2007.  Molecular Systematics of the South AmericanDolphin Sotalia sp: Sister taxa determination and phylogenetic relationships.

Calambokidis,J., G.S. Schorr, G.H. Steiger, J. Francis, M. Bakhtiari, G. Marshall, E.Oleson, D. Gendron and K. Robertson.2008. Insights into the underwater diving, feeding, and calling behavior ofblue whales from a suction-cup attached video-imaging tag (CRITTERCAM). MarineTechnology Society Journal 41(4):19-29.

Chivers, Susan J., Robin W.Baird, K.K. Martien, B.L. Taylor, F.I. Archer, A.M. Gorgone, B.L. Hancock, N.M. Hedrick, D. Matilla, D.J. McSweeney,E.M. Oleson, C.L. Palmer, V. Pease, K.M. Robertson, J. Robbins, J.C. Salinas, G.S. Schorr, M. Schultz, J.L.Thieleking, and D.L. Webster. 2010. Evidence of genetic differentiation for Hawai'i insular false killer whales (Pseudorca crassidens). U.S. Departmentof Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS, NOAA-TM-NMFS-SWFSC-458, 44 p

Chivers, S. J.,R. W. Baird, D. J. McSweeney, D. L. Webster, N. M. Hedrick, and J. C. Salinas. 2007.  Genetic variation andevidence for population structure in eastern North Pacific false killer whales(Pseudorca crassidens).  Canadian Journal of Zoology 85(7):783-794.

Chivers, S. J., R. G. LeDuc, K. M. Robertson, N. B. Barros, and A. E. Dizon. 2005. Genetic variation of Kogia spp. with preliminary evidence for two species of Kogia sima.  Marine Mammal Science 21(4):619-634.

Dalebout, M. L., K.M. Robertson, S. J. Chivers, andA. Samuels. 2008.  DNA identification andthe impact of illegal, unregulated, and unreported (IUU) fishing on rare whalesin Micronesian waters. Micronesica 40: 139-147.

Dalebout, M. L., C. S. Baker, D. Steele, K. M. Robertson, S. J. Chivers, W. F. Perrin,J. G. Mead, R. V. Grace, and T. D. Schofield. 2007.  A divergent mtDNA lineage among Mesoplodon beaked whales: molecularevidence for a new species in the tropical Pacific?  Marine Mammal Science 23:954-966.

Dalebout. M.L., Robertson,K.M., Frantzis, A., Engelhaupt, D., Mignucci-Giannoni, A.M.,Rosario-Delestre, R.J., and C. S. Baker. 2005.  Worldwide structure ofmtDNA diversity among Cuvier’s beaked whale (Ziphius cavirostris): implicationsfor threatened populations.  MolecularEcology, vol. 10.

Engelhaupt, D., A.R. Hoelzel, C.Nicholson, A. Frantzis, S. Mesnick, S. Gero, H. Whitehead, L. Rendell, P.Miller, R. De Stefanis, A. Cañadas, S. Airold, and A.A. Mignucci-Giannoni.2009. Female philopatry in coastal basins and male dispersion across the NorthAtlantic in a highly mobile marine species, the sperm whale (Physetermacrocephalus). Molecular Ecology 18(20):4193-4205.

Havill,L.M., M.C. Mahaney, L.A. Cox, P.A. Morin,G. Joslyn, and J. Rogers, 2005 Aquantitative trait locus for normal variation in forearm bone mineral densityin pedigreed baboons maps to the ortholog of human chromosome 11q.J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 90(6): p. 3638-45.

Iyengar,A., V.N. Babu, S. Hedges, A. Venkataraman, N. MacLean, and P.A. Morin, 2005 Phylogeography,genetic structure, and diversity in the dhole (Cuon alpinus).Molecular Ecology. 14: p. 2281-2297.

Jackson,A., T. Gerrodette, S. Chivers, M. Lynn, S. Rankin, and S. Mesnick. 2008. Marine mammal data collected during a survey inthe eastern tropical Pacific ocean aboard NOAA ships David Starr Jordan andMcArthur II, July 28 - December 7, 2006. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAATechnical Memorandum NMFS, NOAA-TM-NMFS-SWFSC-421, 45 p.

Jaramillo-Legorreta,A., L. Rojas-Bracho, R.L. Brownell,A.J. Read, R.R. Reeves, K. Ralls, and B.L.Taylor. 2007. Saving the vaquita: immediate action, not more data.Conservation Biology.

LeDuc, R.G., K.K. Martien, P. A. Morin, N. Hedrick, K. M. Robertson, B.L. Taylor, N. S. Mugue, R. G. Borodin, D. A. Zelenina, D. Litovka, and J.C. George. 2008. Mitochondrial genetic variation in bowhead whales in thewestern Arctic. Journal of Cetacean Research and Management 10 (2):93-97.

LeDuc, R. G., Robertson, K.M., and R. L. Pitman.  2008. Mitochondrial sequence divergence among Antarctic killer whale ecotypesis consistent with multiple species. Biology Letters.

Martien, K.K., D. Gregovich, M.V. Bravington, A.E. Punt, A.E. Strand, D.A.Tallmon, B.L. Taylor.  In press. TOSSM: an R package for assessingperformance of genetic analytical methods in a management context.  MolecularEcology Notes.

McDonald, M.A., Hildebrand, J.A. and Mesnick, S.L. 2009.  Worldwide decline in tonal frequencies of bluewhale songs. Endangered Species Research.

McDonald, M.A., Mesnick,S.L. and Hildebrand, J.A. 2006.Biogeographic characterization of blue whale song worldwide: using song toidentify populations. Journal of Cetacean Research and Management 8: 55-65.

Mesnick,S.L. and Ralls, K. 2008.  Mating Systems. In, Encyclopedia of MarineMammals, Second Edition (eds., W.F. Perrrin, H.G.M. Thewissen and B.Würsig).  Academic Press, San Diego.Pages 712-719.

Mesnick, L.L., B.L. Taylor, F.I. Archer, K.K. Martien,S. Escorza-Trevino, B.L. Hancock, S.C. Moreno-Medina, V.L. Pease,K.M. Robertson, J.M. Straley, R.W. Baird, J. Calambokidis, G.S. Schorr,P.R. Wade, V. Burkanov, C.R. Lunsford, L. Rendell and P.A. Morin.  In press.  Sperm whale population structure in theeastern and central north Pacific inferred by the use of single nucleotidepolymorphisms (SNPs), microsatellites and mitochondrial DNA.  Molecular Ecology Resources.

Modugno,F., J.M. Zmuda, D. Potter, C. Cai, E. Ziv, S.R. Cummings, K.L. Stone, P.A. Morin, D. Greene, and J.A. Cauley,2005 Estrogen metabolizingpolymorphisms and breast cancer risk among older white women. BreastCancer Res Treat. 93(3): p. 261-70.

Modugno,F., J.M. Zmuda, D. Potter, C. Cai, E. Ziv, S.R. Cummings, K.L. Stone, P.A. Morin, D. Greene, and J.A. Cauley,2005 Association of estrogen receptoralpha polymorphisms with breast cancer risk in older Caucasian women.Int J Cancer. 116(6): p. 984-91.

Moffett,S.P., J.M. Zmuda, J.I. Oakley, T.J. Beck, J.A. Cauley, K.L. Stone, L.Y. Lui,K.E. Ensrud, T.A. Hillier, M.C. Hochberg, P.Morin, G. Peltz, D. Greene, and S.R. Cummings, 2005 Tumor necrosis factor-alpha polymorphism, bone strength phenotypes, andthe risk of fracture in older women. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 90(6):p. 3491-7.

Morin, P.A., F.I. Archer, A.D. Foote, J. Vilstrup, E.E.Allen, P. Wade, J. Durban, K. Parsons, R. Pitman, L. Li, P. Bouffard, S.C. Abel Nielsen, M. Rasmussen, E. Willerslev, M. T.P. Gilbert, and T. Harkins. 2010. Complete mitochondrial genomephylogeographic analysis of killer whales (Orcinus orca) indicates multiplespecies. Genome Research 20(7):908-916.

Morin, P.A., V.L. Pease, B.L. Hancock, K.M. Robertson,Caroline W. Antolik, and Ryan M. Huebinger. 2010. Characterization of 42 singlenucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers for the bowhead whale (Balaenamysticetus) for use in discriminating populations. Marine Mammal Science26(3):716-732.

Morin, P.A., Manaster, C., Mesnick.S.L. and Holland, R. 2009. Normalization and binning of historical andmulti-source microsatellite data: overcoming the problems of allele size shiftwith ALLELOGRAM.  Molecular EcologyNotes.

Morin, P.A., K.K. Martien, F.I. Archer, F. Cipriano, D. Steel, J. Jackson, B.L. Taylor.  2010. Applied conservation genetics and the need for quality control andreporting of genetic data used in management. Journal of Heredity 101: 1-10.

Morin, P.A. and A.E. Dizon.2009, Genetics for management,in Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals, Second Edition, W.F. Perrin, B.Würsig, and J.G.M. Thewissen, Editors. Elsevier Inc. p. 477-483.

Morin, P.A., R.G. LeDuc, F.I. Archer, K.K. Martien, R. Huebinger, J.W. Bickham, B.L. Taylor.  2009.  Significant deviations from Hardy-Weinbergequilibrium caused by low levels of microsatellite genotyping errors.  MolecularEcology Resources, 9:498-504.

Morin, P.A., C. Manaster, S.L.Mesnick, and R. Holland, 2009 Normalizationand binning of historical and multi-source microsatellite data: overcoming theproblems of allele size shift with ALLELOGRAM. Molecular Ecology Resources.in press.

Morin, P. A., K. K. Martien, and B. L.Taylor.  2008.  Assessing statistical power of SNPs forpopulation structure and conservation studies. Molecular Ecology Resources,9:66-73.

Morin, P.A.,Aitken, N.C., Rubio-Cisneros, N., Dizon, A.E. and Mesnick, S.L. 2007.Characterization of 18 SNP markers for sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus).Molecular Ecology Notes online:doi:10.1111/j.1471-8286.2006.01654.x.

Morin, P.A., N.M. Hedrick, K.M.Robertson, and C.A. LeDuc, 2007 Comparative mitochondrial and nuclearquantitative PCR of historical marine mammal tissue, bone, baleen, and toothsamples. Molecular Ecology Notes. 7(3): p. 404-411.

Morin, P.A. and M. McCarthy, 2007 Highly accurate SNPgenotyping from historical and low-quality samples. Molecular EcologyNotes. 7(6): p. 937-946.

Morin, P.A., R.G. LeDuc, K.M. Robertson,N.M. Hedrick, W.F. Perrin, M. Etnier, P. Wade, and B.L. Taylor, 2006 Geneticanalysis of killer whale (Orcinus orca) historical bone and tooth samples toidentify western U.S. ecotypes. Marine Mammal Science. 22(4):p. 897-909.

Morin, P.A., Nestler, A., Rubio-Cisneros,N.T., Robertson, K.M. and Mesnick, S.L. 2005. Interfamilial characterizationof a region of the ZFX and ZFY genesfacilitates gender determination in cetaceans and other mammals. MolecularEcology 14: 3275-3286.

O’Corry-Crowe,G., B. L. Taylor, T. Gelatt, T.R.Loughlin, J. Bickham, M. Basterretche, K.W. Pitcher, and D.P. DeMaster. 2006.Demographic independence along ecosystem boundaries in Steller sea lionsrevealed by mtDNA analysis: implications for management of an endangeredspecies. Canadian Journal of Zoology 84: 1796-1809.

Perrin, William F., Kelly M. Robertson, and William A. Walker. 2008. Diet of thestriped dolphin, Stenella coeruleoalba, in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean.U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS,NOAA-TM-NMFS-SWFSC-418, 26 p.

Perrin,W.F., Robertson,K.M., Van Bree,P.J.H. and Mead,J.G. 2007.  Cranial description and genetic identity ofthe holotype specimen of Tursiops aduncus (Ehrenberg, 1832) Mar. Mamm. Sci. 23 (2), 343-357.

Ralls, K. and Mesnick,S.L. 2009. Sexual Dimorphism. In, Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals, SecondEdition (eds., W.F.Perrrin, H.G.M. Thewissen and B. Würsig).  Academic Press, San Diego. Pages 1005 – 1011.

Rankin, Shannon, René Swift,Denise Risch, Barbara Taylor,Lorenzo Rojas-Bracho, Armando Jaramillo-Legorreta, Jonathon Gordon, TomAkamatsu, and Satoko Kimura. 2009. Vaquita Expedition 2008: Preliminary resultsfrom a towed hydrophone survey of the vaquita from the Vaquita Express in theupper Gulf of California. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical MemorandumNMFS, NOAA-TM-NMFS-SWFSC-439, 38 p.

Regan, T., B. Taylor, G. Thompson, J. Cochrane, R. Merrick, M. Nammack, S.Rumsey, K. Ralls, and M. Runge. 2009. Developing a structure for quantitativelisting criteria for the U.S. Endangered Species Act using performance testing,Phase 1 Report. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS,NOAA-TM-NMFS-SWFSC-437. 166 pages.

Roden, S.E., P.H. Dutton, and P.A.Morin, 2009 Characterization ofSNP markers for the green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas). MolecularEcology Resources. in press.

Roden, S.E., P.H. Dutton, and P.A.Morin, 2009 AFLP fragmentisolation technique as a method to produce random sequences for singlenucleotide polymorphism (SNP) discovery in the green turtle, Chelonia mydas.Journal of Heredity. in press.

Rojas-Bracho,L., A. Jaramillo-Legoretta, G. Cardenas, E. Nieto, P. Ladron de Guevara, B.L.Taylor, J. Barlow, T. Gerrodette, A. Henry, N. Tregenza, R. Swift, and T.Akamatsu. 2010. Assessing trends in abundance for vaquita using acoustic monitoring:within refuge plan and outside refuge research needs. U.S. Department ofCommerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS, NOAA-TM-NMFS-SWFSC-459.

Rubio-Cisneros,N.., Mesnick, S.L., Vázquez-Juárez,R.., Urbán-Ramírez, J., Godard, C.A.J., Payne, R.. and Dizon, A.E.  2007. Genetic sex determination supports the Gulf of Californiaas an important habitat for male and female sperm whales (Physetermacrocephalus). Latin American Journal of Aquatic Mammals 5(2): 125-128.

Schipper et al. (100+ authors incl. B.L. Taylor). In Press. The Status of the World’s Land and Marine Mammals: Diversity, Threat, and Knowledge. Science

Smith,S. and P.A. Morin, 2005 Optimal storage conditions for highly diluteDNA samples: a role for trehalose as a preserving agent. Journal ofForensic Sciences. 50(5): p. 1101-1108.

Schramm, Y., Mesnick,S.L., de la Rosa, J.R., Palacios, D.M., Lowry, M.S., Aurioles, D., Snell, H.M., and Escorza-Treviño, S. 2009.  Phylogeography of California and Galápagossea lions and population structure of the California sea lion. Marine Biology156: 1375-1387.

Taylor, B.L., K.K. Martien,and P.A. Morin, in press, Defining Populations & Stocks, inMarine Mammal Ecology and Conservation: A handbook of techniques, I.Boyd, D. Bowen, and S. Iverson, Editors. Oxford University Press: Oxford.

Taylor, B. L., M. Martinez, T.Gerrodette, and J. Barlow. 2006.Lessons from monitoring trends inabundance of marine mammals. Marine Mammal Science 23:157-175.

Taylor, B. L. 2005. Identifying Units to Conserve. Pages 149-164 InMarine Mammal Research: Conservation Beyond Crisis. J. E. Reynolds III, W. F.Perrin, R. R. Reeves, S. Montgomery, and T. J. Ragen, Eds. The John HopkinsUniversity Press, Baltimore.

Tezanos-Pinto,G., C. S. Baker, K. Russell, K. Martien,R. W. Baird, A. Hutt, G. Stone, A. A. Mignucci-Giannoni, S. Caballero, M.Oremus, C. Olavarria, S. Lavery, and C. Garrigue.  2009. A worldwide perspective on the population structure and geneticdiversity of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiopstruncatus) in New Zealand.  Journal of Heredity, 100(1):11-24.

Turvey, S.T., R.L. Pitman, B.L. Taylor, J. Barlow,T. Akamatsu, L.A. Barrett, X. Zhao, R.R. Reeves, B.S. Stewart, K. Wang, Z. Wei,X. Zhang, L.T. Pusser, M. Richlen, J.R. Brandon, D. Wang. 2007. First human-causedextinction of a cetacean species? Biology Letters.

Waples, R.S., P.B.Adams, J. Bohnsack, and B.L. Taylor2007. A biological framework for evaluating whether a species is threatened orendangered in a significant portion of its range. Conservation Biology