Immune Ecology and
Conservation Physiology Lab
Former lab member, Aranzazu Arias-Rojas has recently been accepted as a PhD student at the Max Plank Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin. Good luck, Ara!
Carlos Domínguez-Sánchez won the prize for best oral presentation at the Conference of the Mexican Ecology Society, 2019. Congratulations!
Recently published papers (2019-2020)
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Gulland FMD, Hall AJ, Ylitalo GM, Colegrove KM, Norris T, Duignan PJ, Halaska B, Acevedo-Whitehouse K, Lowenstine LJ, Deming AC, Rowles TK. (2020) Persistent contaminants and herpesvirus OtHV1 are positively associated with cancer in wild California sea lions (Zalophus californianus) Frontiers in Marine Science. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.602565
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Lopes F, Oliveira LR, Kessler A, Crespo E, Cárdenas-Alayza S, Majluf P, Sepúlveda M, Brownell Jr. RL, Franco-Trecu V, Páez-Rosas D, Chaves J, Loch C, Robertson BC, Acevedo-Whitehouse K, Elorriaga-Verplancken FR, Kirkman SP, Peart CR, Wolf JBW, Bonatto SL. (2021) Whole-Genome Phylogeny of the Eared Seals Reveals Explosive Radiation in the Southern Hemisphere with Massive Incomplete Lineage Sorting. Systematic Biology (en prensa)
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Morales-Durán N, Chavez C, Elorriaga-Verplanken FR, Acevedo-Whitehouse K (2020) Validation of a photogrammetric model to estimate the body mass of Northern elephant seal (Mirounga angustirostris) pups. Marine Mammal Science 36: 1042-1049. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/mms.12694
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Adame K, Elorriaga-Verplancken FR, Beier E, Acevedo-Whitehouse K, Pardo MA (2020) The demographic decline of a sea lion population followed multi-decadal sea surface warming. Scientific Reports 10, 10499. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-67534-0
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Vendl, C., Slavich, E., Nelson, T., Acevedo-Whitehouse, K., Montgomery, K., Ferrari, B., Thomas, T., Rogers, T. (2020) Does sociality drive diversity and composition of airway microbiota in cetaceans? Environmental Microbiology Reports 12(3). doi: 10.1111/1758-2229.12835
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Aguilar, T., Nava, G.M., Olvera-Ramírez, A.M., Ronquillo, D., Camacho, M., Zavala, G.A., Caamaño, M.C., Acevedo-Whitehouse, K. Rosado, J.L., García, O.P. (2020) Gut Bacterial Families Are Associated with Body Composition and Metabolic Risk Markers in School-Aged Children in Rural Mexico. Childhood Obesity. doi: 10.1089/chi.2019.0312
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Farriols, M., Arellano-Carbajal, F., Elorriaga-Verplancken, F. R., Adame-Fernández, K., Garrido, E., Álvarez-Martínez, R.C., Bárcenas, R.T., Flores-Morán, A.E., Acevedo-Whitehouse, K. (2020) Filarial infections in California sea lions vary spatially within the Gulf of California, Mexico. Parasitology Research 119:1281-1290. doi: 10.1007/s00436-020-06638-y.
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Stoffel, M.A., Acevedo-Whitehouse, K., Nami Morales-Durán, Grosser, S., Chakarov. N., Krüger, O., Nichols, H.J., Elorriaga-Verplancken, F.R., Hoffman, J.I. (2020) Early sexual dimorphism in the developing gut microbiome of northern elephant seals. Molecular Ecology (Online early). doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2019.12.11.871855
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Peñín, I., Figueroa-Cabañas, M.E., Guerrero-de la Rosa, F., Soto-García, L.A., Álvarez-Martínez, R., Flores-Morán, A., Acevedo-Whitehouse, K. (2019). Transcriptional Profiles of California Sea Lion Peripheral NK and CD+8 T Cells Reflect Ecological Regionalization and Infection by Oncogenic Viruses. Frontiers in Immunology 10:413. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2019.00413
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Morales-Guerrero, B., Gendron, D., Martinez-Levasseur, L.M., Acevedo-Whitehouse, K. (2019). Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus, skin contains eumelanin and pheomelanin. Aquatic Mammals 45, 88-98. doi: 10.1578/AM.45.1.2019.88
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