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| B A BlockSummaryAffiliation: Stanford University Country: USA Publications
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Tracking apex marine predator movements in a dynamic oceanB A Block
Stanford University, Biology Department, Hopkins Marine Station, Pacific Grove, California 93950, USA
Nature 475:86-90. 2011..We identify critical habitats across multinational boundaries and show that top predators exploit their environment in predictable ways, providing the foundation for spatial management of large marine ecosystems...
Electronic tagging and population structure of Atlantic bluefin tunaBarbara A Block
Tuna Research and Conservation Center, Stanford University, Hopkins Marine Station, Pacific Grove, California 93950, USA
Nature 434:1121-7. 2005..Restrictions on the time and area where longlining occurs would reduce incidental catch mortalities on western spawning grounds...- Migratory movements, depth preferences, and thermal biology of Atlantic bluefin tunaB A Block
Tuna Research and Conservation Center, Stanford University, Hopkins Marine Station, Oceanview Boulevard, Pacific Grove, CA 93950, USA
Science 293:1310-4. 2001..These data are critical for the future management and conservation of bluefin tuna in the Atlantic... - Satellite tagging and cardiac physiology reveal niche expansion in salmon sharksKevin C Weng
Tuna Research and Conservation Center, Stanford University, Hopkins Marine Station, 120 Oceanview Boulevard, Pacific Grove, CA 93950, USA
Science 310:104-6. 2005.... - Temperature dependence of the Ca2+-ATPase (SERCA2) in the ventricles of tuna and mackerelAna M Landeira-Fernandez
Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford Univ, Oceanview Blvd, Pacific Grove, CA, 93950, USA
Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 286:R398-404. 2004..We also suggest that high levels of SERCA2 in bluefin tuna hearts may be important for retaining cardiac function at cold temperatures... - Postprandial metabolism of Pacific bluefin tuna (Thunnus orientalis)T D Clark
Tuna Research and Conservation Center, Stanford University, Hopkins Marine Station Monterey Bay Aquarium, Pacific Grove, CA 93950, USA
J Exp Biol 213:2379-85. 2010..Despite efficient food conversion, SDA is likely to represent a significant component of the daily energy budget of wild bluefin tunas due to a regular and high ingestion of forage... - Oxygen affinity and amino acid sequence of myoglobins from endothermic and ectothermic fishD J Marcinek
Tuna Research and Conservation Center and Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University, Pacific Grove, CA 93950, USA
Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 280:R1123-33. 2001..Correlated with the low oxygen affinity and fast dissociation kinetics of mackerel Mb is a substitution of alanine for proline that would likely result in a more flexible mackerel protein... - Characterization of RyR1-slow, a ryanodine receptor specific to slow-twitch skeletal muscleJ Morrissette
Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University, Pacific Grove, California 93950, USA
Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 279:R1889-98. 2000..These results indicate differences in the physiological properties of RyRs in fish slow- and fast-twitch skeletal muscle, which may contribute to differences in the way intracellular Ca(2+) is regulated in these muscle types... - Expanded niche for white sharksAndre M Boustany
Tuna Research and Conservation Center, Stanford University and Monterey Bay Aquarium, Hopkins Marine Station, Pacific Grove, California 93950, USA
Nature 415:35-6. 2002..Here we report the tracking of movements of white sharks by using pop-up satellite archival tags, which reveal that their migratory movements, depth and ambient thermal ranges are wider than was previously thought... 
Philopatry and migration of Pacific white sharksSalvador J Jorgensen
Department of Biology, Stanford University, Pacific Grove, CA 93950, USA
Proc Biol Sci 277:679-88. 2010..This population's fidelity to discrete and predictable locations offers clear population assessment, monitoring and management options...- Elevated Ca2+ ATPase (SERCA2) activity in tuna hearts: comparative aspects of temperature dependencePedro C Castilho
Tuna Research and Conservation Center, Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University, Pacific Grove, California 93950, USA
Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol 148:124-32. 2007..We propose that the expression of EC coupling proteins in cardiac myocytes, and the higher rates of SERCA2 activity are an important evolutionary step for the maintenance of higher heart rates and endothermy in bluefin tuna... - Characterization of ryanodine receptor and Ca2+-ATPase isoforms in the thermogenic heater organ of blue marlin (Makaira nigricans)Jeffery M Morrissette
Stanford University, Hopkins Marine Station, Pacific Grove, CA 93950, USA
J Exp Biol 206:805-12. 2003.... - Multilocus phylogenetic analyses reveal that habitat selection drives the speciation of Didymozoidae (Digenea) parasitizing Pacific and Atlantic bluefin tunasI Mladineo
Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University, 120 Oceanview Blvd, Pacific Grove, CA 93950, USA
Parasitology 137:1013-25. 2010..For 2 didymozoid species (D. wedli and D. palati), cox1 sequences indicate intraspecific differences between Mexican and Adriatic populations... - Histochemical and immunohistochemical studies on the origin of the blue marlin heater cell phenotypeA Tullis
Biology Department, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA 98416, USA
Tissue Cell 29:627-42. 1997..This conclusion is discussed in the context of the muscle-to-heater trajectory and the muscle fiber-type origin of heater cells... - Seasonal movements, aggregations and diving behavior of Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) revealed with archival tagsAndreas Walli
Tuna Research and Conservation Center, Stanford University, Hopkins Marine Station, Pacific Grove, CA, USA
PLoS ONE 4:e6151. 2009..The high concentrations of bluefin tuna in predictable locations indicate that Atlantic bluefin tuna are vulnerable to concentrated fishing efforts in the regions of foraging aggregations... - Effects of temperature, epinephrine and Ca(2+) on the hearts of yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares)Jason M Blank
Tuna Research and Conservation Center, Stanford University, Hopkins Marine Station, Oceanview Boulevard, Pacific Grove, CA 93950, USA
J Exp Biol 205:1881-8. 2002.... - Temperature effects on metabolic rate of juvenile Pacific bluefin tuna Thunnus orientalisJason M Blank
Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University, Pacific Grove, CA 93950, USA
J Exp Biol 210:4254-61. 2007.... - Persistent leatherback turtle migrations present opportunities for conservationGeorge L Shillinger
Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University, Pacific Grove, California, USA
PLoS Biol 6:e171. 2008..We identify high seas locations for focusing future conservation efforts within the leatherback dispersal zone in the South Pacific Gyre... - In situ cardiac performance of Pacific bluefin tuna hearts in response to acute temperature changeJason M Blank
Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Oceanview Boulevard, Pacific Grove, CA 93950, USA
J Exp Biol 207:881-90. 2004..In situ data from Pacific bluefin are compared to in situ measurements of cardiac performance in yellowfin tuna and preliminary results from albacore tuna... - Effect of thermal acclimation on action potentials and sarcolemmal K+ channels from Pacific bluefin tuna cardiomyocytesG L J Galli
Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA
Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 297:R502-9. 2009..Our results indicate the bluefin AP is relatively short compared with other teleosts, which may allow the bluefin heart to function at cold temperatures without the necessity for thermal compensation of APD... - Influence of swimming speed on metabolic rates of juvenile pacific bluefin tuna and yellowfin tunaJason M Blank
Tuna Research and Conservation Center, Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University, California 93950, USA
Physiol Biochem Zool 80:167-77. 2007..These physiological traits may underlie thermal-niche expansion of bluefin tuna relative to tropical tuna species... - Electrophysiological properties of the L-type Ca(2+) current in cardiomyocytes from bluefin tuna and Pacific mackerelH A Shiels
Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University, Pacific Grove, CA 93950, USA
Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 286:R659-68. 2004..Similarly, I(Ca) is enhanced in the ventricle of both species compared with other teleosts and may play a role in the robust cardiac performance of fishes of the family Scombridae... - Heterologous hybridization to a complementary DNA microarray reveals the effect of thermal acclimation in the endothermic bluefin tuna (Thunnus orientalis)Pedro C Castilho
Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University, Pacific Grove, CA 93950, USA
Mol Ecol 18:2092-102. 2009..The genes whose expression levels were responsive to thermal acclimation varied according to muscle fibre type, perhaps reflecting the tissue-specific degrees of endothermy characteristic of this species... - Expression of cytokines IL-1beta and TNF-alpha in tissues and cysts surrounding Didymocystis wedli (Digenea, Didymozoidae) in the Pacific bluefin tuna (Thunnus orientalis)Ivona Mladineo
Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University, 120 Oceanview Blvd, Pacific Grove, CA 93950, USA
Fish Shellfish Immunol 29:487-93. 2010..However, the lack of intensive cytokines response to D. wedli observed by molecular and histological data that fails to eliminate the parasite, could be related to the "old" age of the parasitic process... - Intramuscular anesthesia of bonito and Pacific mackerel with ketamine and medetomidine and reversal of anesthesia with atipamezoleThomas D Williams
Tuna Research and Conservation Center, Monterey Bay Aquarium, 886 Cannery Row, Monterey, CA 93940, USA
J Am Vet Med Assoc 225:417-21. 2004..CONCLUSIONS AND CLINICAL RELEVANCE: Results suggest that a combination of ketamine and medetomidine can safely be used for anesthesia of bonitos and mackerels and that anesthetic effects can be reversed with atipamezole... - Migratory shearwaters integrate oceanic resources across the Pacific Ocean in an endless summerScott A Shaffer
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 103:12799-802. 2006..Sooty shearwater populations today are declining, and because they operate on a global scale, they may serve as an important indicator of climate change and ocean health...