Molecular Indicators of Chronic Stress in a Model Pinniped - The Northern Elephant Seal

Abstract

This effort seeks to identify combinations of biomarkers that are associated with discrete stress states in marine mammals. These taxa of concern are potentially affected by multiple environmental stressors. Some stressors may cause transient, acute responses whereas others may result in chronically activated stress responses with varying degrees of functional consequences. Differentiating among unstressed individiuals, those that have experienced recent acute stress, and chronically stressed animals can offer substantial information relevant to management and conservation of marine mammals potentially exposed to anthropogenic disturbance, including ocean noise.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2015
Accession Number
AD1013980

Entities

People

  • Cory D Champagne
  • Daniel E Crocker
  • Dorian S. Houser
  • Jane Kyudyakov

Organizations

  • National Marine Mammal Foundation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Amino Acids
  • Animals
  • Biological Processes
  • Climate Change
  • Computational Biology
  • Computational Science
  • Cortisol
  • Data Sets
  • Elephants
  • Gene Expression
  • Mammals
  • Marine Mammals
  • Metabolic Pathways
  • Metabolites
  • Metabolomics
  • Systems Biology
  • Transcriptomics

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science
  • Psychology

Readers

  • Gulf War Illness and Chronic Multisymptom Illness in Veterans.
  • Marine Mammal Biology
  • Mechanical Engineering/Mechanics of Materials.