High impact information on Balaenoptera

• Cetacean relaxin. Isolation and sequence of relaxins from Balaenoptera acutorostrata and Balaenoptera edeni [1].
• The difference between the minke whales from the North Atlantic and the Antarctic was greater than that between any acknowledged species belonging to the same genus (Balaenoptera) [2].
• Finback-whale (Balaenoptera physalus L.) heparin was partially digested with a purified heparinase and an octasaccharide with high affinity for antithrombin III was isolated from the digest by gel filtration, followed by affinity chromatography on a column of antithrombin III immobilized on Sepharose 4B [3].
• Minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) follicular oocytes were cryopreserved by a slow-step freezing procedure using ethylene glycol [4].
• Blood serum concentrations of testosterone and progesterone were measured in postmortem samples taken at sea from 814 fin whales (Balaenoptera physalus) caught during the summers (June-September) of 1981-1989 [5].

Biological context of Balaenoptera

• Species specificity in thermostable and ethanol insoluble tissue antigens. III. Further immunization of ruminants with antigens from other ruminants and whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) [6].

Anatomical context of Balaenoptera

• The development and final structure of the IXth, Xth and XIth cranial nerve nuclei are studied in ironhematoxylin -, thionin - and protargol -stained serial sections of about 50 baleen whale fetuses (blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus, and fin whale, Balaenoptera physalus ) and one adult fin whale [7].

Associations of Balaenoptera with chemical compounds

• From sanddabs to blue whales: the pervasiveness of domoic acid [8].
• A new method of in situ formalin fixation was used on 38 brains from minke whales (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) [9].
• In Norway minke whales (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) are hunted using small fishing boats rigged with harpoon guns, which fire harpoons tipped with a grenade containing a charge of 30-g penthrite [10].
• 7. Similarly, the metabolic potential (total O2 consumed during adult lifespan per g bodyweight) for a 2 g shrew or a 100000 kg blue whale is approximately 38 L O2 consumed or 8.5 mol ATP/g body mass per lifetime [11].
• Ambergris, which is an internal secretion of the sperm blue whale, was extracted with 96% ethanol [12].

Gene context of Balaenoptera

• No polymorphism was seen in DNA from the five minke whale samples, but Rsa I and Taq I restriction enzymes gave polymorphism in fin and sei whales whereas Hind III and Msp I restriction enzymes showed polymorphism in sei whales only [13].

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