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Phoca
Definition:
(n.) A genus of seals. It includes the common harbor seal and allied species. See Seal.
Example Sentences:
(1) The rostral brainstem of the harbor seal Phoca vitulina was cooled and heated 33-41 degrees C while oxygen consumption and rectal, hypothalamic, flipper and dorsal skin temperatures were measured.
(2) During the same period (1980 to 1990), 29 arctic foxes, 23 polar bears (Ursus maritimus), 19 reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) and five ringed seals (Phoca hispida) were also tested using the same technique.
(3) During an outbreak of a serious apparently infectious disease among harbour seals (Phoca vitulina), which started in the Kattegat area in April 1988 and rapidly spread to the North sea, the Wadden sea and the Baltic sea, greater than 17,000 animals died within a period of eight months.
(4) An epizootic of morbillivirus infection killed several hundred common seals (Phoca vitulina) along the coast of Northern Ireland in 1988.
(5) A morbillivirus was isolated from the organs of a seal (Phoca sibirica) which had died during 1987-1988 epizootic in Baikal.
(6) The nucleotide sequence of the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) of the harbor seal, Phoca vitulina, was determined.
(7) Histological and histochemical methods were used to study the ovaries of Greenland seal (Pagophoca groenlandica) from birth-time up to 30 years of age and mature females of Phoca vitulina and Erignathus barbatus.
(8) Expired air temperature (Tex), metabolic rate (MR), and skin (Ts) and body (Tb; rectal) temperatures were recorded in four or five young (1-2 yr) harp seals (Phoca groenlandica) in air [mean air temperature (Ta) = -30, -10, or 10 degrees C] and in water [mean water temperature (Tw) = 2.3 or 24.8 degrees C, with Ta = -30, -10, 0, or 10 degrees C].
(9) The bilateral distribution of carotid body type 1 and 11 cells was investigated in five harbour seals (Phoca vitulina richardsi), by serially sectioning the carotid bifurcation regions.
(10) They were also investigated with 16 newly developed MAbs directed against the fusion (F) and large glycoprotein (named H in analogy with measles virus) of phocid distemper virus (PDV) isolated from a harbour seal (Phoca vitulina).
(11) Skeletotopically, cervical thickening of the spinal cord in semiwater mammals (Callorhinus ursinus, Eumetopias jubatus, Phoca larga, Phoca kurilensis, Enhydra lutris) corresponds to 4--5, and in terrestrial mammals (Ursus arctos, Vulpes vulpes)--to 3--6 cervical vertebrae.
(12) Compared to Harbour Seal (Phoca vitulina) the Walrus hemoglobin shows 9 amino-acid replacements in the alpha-chains and 5 in the beta-chains.
(13) The medullary pyramid of renculi in kidneys of ringed seals (Phoca hispida) is enclosed by a basket composed of ribbons of stromal tissue continuous with the wall of the calyx.
(14) Cardiac output (Q) and pulmonary arterial pressure (Ppa) were measured under various conditions in four harbor seals (Phoca vitulina) weighing 35--52 kg.
(15) In the anesthetized spontaneously breathing harbor seal Phoca vitulina stimulation of the carotid body chemoreceptors by intracarotid injections of sodium cyanide or by hypoxic hypercapnic blood causes an increase in tidal volume, respiratory frequency, and respiratory minute volume.
(16) Morbillivirus of Baikal seal (BSM) was isolated from organs of a dead animal during 1987-1988 epizootic of Baikal seal (Phoca sibirica).
(17) These data demonstrate that herpesvirus isolates collected from harbour seals (Phoca vitulina Linnaeus, 1758) during the 1988 seal epidemic were almost indistinguishable from feline herpesvirus 1 and that Antarctic Weddell's seals (Leptonychotes weddelli Lesson, 1826) carry antibodies against seal herpesvirus from the north-western Europe seal epidemic.
(18) Plasma and tissue levels of dietary radiotracer-labeled tocopherols were examined in the harp seal, Phoca groenlandica.
(19) Recently the isolation and characterisation of a morbillivirus which caused high mortality in common seals (Phoca vitulina) in 1988 have been reported.
(20) An epizootic of morbillivirus infection killed thousands of common seals (Phoca vitulina) in European seas in 1988.