Adrenal Gland and Lung Lesions in Gulf of Mexico Common Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) Found Dead following the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

Venn‐Watson, Stephanie; M. Colegrove, Kathleen; A. Litz, Jenny; J. Kinsel, Michael; A. Terio, Karen; T. Saliki, Jeremiah; E. Fire, Spencer; H. Carmichael, Ruth; Chevis, Connie; Hatchett, W; L. Pitchford, Jonathan; C. Tumlin, Mandy; L. Field, Cara; M. Smith, Suzanne; Y. Ewing, Ruth; Fauquier, Deborah; Lovewell, Gretchen; Whitehead, Heidi; S. Rotstein, David; E. McFee, Wayne; Fougeres, Erin; Rowles, Teri

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0126538

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Adrenal Gland and Lung Lesions in Gulf of Mexico Common Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) Found Dead following the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

Published in PLoS ONE • May 20, 2015

Authors:

Stephanie Venn‐Watson

Kathleen M. Colegrove

Jenny A. Litz

Abstract

A northern Gulf of Mexico (GoM) cetacean unusual mortality event (UME) involving primarily bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama began in February 2010 and continued into 2014. Overlapping in time and space with this UME was the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil s...

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Bottlenose dolphin

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Adrenal gland

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