Email this article A Study of Uncinariasis in Northern Fur Seal Pups, Callorhinus ursinus, on the Rookeries of Bering Island, 2011–2012
- Authors: Fomin S.V.1, Konovalova L.I.2, Belonovich O.A.3, DeLong R.L.4, Spraker T.R.5
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Affiliations:
- Kamchatka Branch, Pacific Geographical Institute, Far East Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences
- Vyatka State Agricultural Academy
- Kamchatka Branch, Russian Federal Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (KamchatNIRO)
- Marine Mammal Laboratory, Alaska Fisheries Science Center
- Colorado State University, Fort Collins
- Issue: Vol 45, No 5 (2019)
- Pages: 393-396
- Section: Brief Notes
- URL: https://journal-vniispk.ru/1063-0740/article/view/184465
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063074019050031
- ID: 184465
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Abstract
Carcasses of northern fur seal pups, Callorhinus ursinus, collected from the rookeries of Bering Island (n = 133), were examined for hookworms Uncinaria spp. The parasite was found in 90% of the pups from the Severo-Zapadnoe rookery and in 45% of the pups from the Severnoe rookery. This difference in prevalence of nematode infection between the rookeries is associated with the type of substrate, as well as with the pattern of distribution of the seal reproductive groups on each of the rookeries.
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S. V. Fomin
Kamchatka Branch, Pacific Geographical Institute, Far East Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences
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Russian Federation, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, 683000
L. I. Konovalova
Vyatka State Agricultural Academy
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Russian Federation, Kirov, 610017
O. A. Belonovich
Kamchatka Branch, Russian Federal Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (KamchatNIRO)
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Russian Federation, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, 683000
R. L. DeLong
Marine Mammal Laboratory, Alaska Fisheries Science Center
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United States, Seattle, Washington, 98115
T. R. Spraker
Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Email: kalan_87@mail.ru
United States, Colorado, 80523
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