Publications by authors named "Maria C I Martins"
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- Researchers are exploring how baleen whales locate dense prey in the ocean, focusing on their olfactory systems and potential for stereo-olfaction.
- The study found a significant negative correlation between the width of whale nares and their trophic levels, indicating that whales adapted for better smell are more likely to eat zooplankton.
- The findings suggest that certain baleen whale species may be able to detect odorants like dimethyl sulfide (DMS), which raises concerns about their potential for ingesting plastic through DMS detection.
In morphological traits, variation within species is generally considered to be lower than variation among species, although this assumption is rarely tested. This is particularly important in fields like palaeontology, where it is common to use a single individual as representative of a species due to the rarity of fossils. Here, we investigated intraspecific variation in the cochleae of harbour porpoises ().
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