| Department/Agency | - Canada. Department of Fisheries and Oceans, issuing body
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| Title | Advances in research on the beluga whale, Delphinapterus leucas / edited by T.G. Smith, D.J. St. Aubin and J.R. Geraci. |
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| Series title | - Canadian bulletin of fisheries and aquatic sciences ; 224
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| Publication type | Monograph - View Master Record |
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| Language | [English] |
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| Format | Digital text |
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| Note(s) | - Digitized edition from print [produced by Department of Fisheries and Oceans].
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-206).
- 1) Research on beluga whales: introduction and overview; 2) Evolution and systematics of the beluga whale and other odontocetes: a molecular approach; 3) The distribution and abundance of belugas in eastern Canadian subarctic waters: a review and update; 4) Distribution, abundance, and movements of beluga whales in coastal waters of western Alaska; 5) Age-length and length-weight comparisons in the beluga; 6) Philopatry and site tenacity of belugas hunted by the Inuit at the Nastapoka estuary, eastern Hudson Bay; 7) Cutaneous response to implants, tags, and marks in beluga whales and bottlenose dolphins, Tursops truncatus; 8) Reactions of belugas and narwhals, Monodon monoceros, to ice-breaking ships in the Canadian high Arctic; 9) Echolocation abilities of the beluga: a review and comparison with the bottlenose dolphin; 10) Integumentary heat loss and blubber distribution in the beluga with comparisons to the narwhal; 11) Dynamics of tooth growth in beluga whales and effectiveness of tetracycline as a marker for age determination; 12) Adrenal responsiveness to stimulation by adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) in captive beluga whales; 13) Assessment of immunological function in captive beluga whales: humoral response to sheep red blood cell antigens; 14) Organochlorine contaminants in belugas from Canadian waters; 15) Heavy metals and selenium in tissues of beluga whales from the Canadian Arctic and the St. Lawrence estuary.
- Abstracts in English and French.
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| Publishing information | - Ottawa : Department of Fisheries and Oceans, 1990.
- ©1990
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| Author / Contributor | - Smith, T. G. (Thomas G.)editor.
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| Description | 1 online resource (vi, 206 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
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