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AUTHOR
Paul Jepson
An insight into the epidemiology of dolphin morbillivirus worldwide.
Serum samples from 288 cetaceans representing 25 species and originating from 11 different countries were collected between 1995 and 1999 and examined for the presence of dolphin morbillivirus (DMV)-specific antibodies by an indirect ELISA (iELISA) (N=267) or a plaque reduction assay (N=21). A total of 35 odontocetes were seropositive: three harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) and a common dolphin (Delphinus delphis) from the Northeastern (NE) Atlantic, a bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) from Kent (England), three striped dolphins (Stenella coeruleoalba), two Risso’s dolphins (Grampus griseus) and a bottlenose dolphin from the Mediterranean Sea, one common dolphin from the Southwes…
Cetacean Morbillivirus: Current Knowledge and Future Directions
We review the molecular and epidemiological characteristics of cetacean morbillivirus (CeMV) and the diagnosis and pathogenesis of associated disease, with six different strains detected in cetaceans worldwide. CeMV has caused epidemics with high mortality in odontocetes in Europe, the USAand Australia. It represents a distinct species within the Morbillivirusgenus. Although most CeMV strains are phylogenetically closely related, recent data indicate that morbilliviruses recovered from Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus), from Western Australia, and a Guiana dolphin (Sotalia guianensis), from Brazil, are divergent. The signaling lymphocyte activation molecule (SLAM) cell rec…
Combining culturomic datasets to assess the potential for digital monitoring of cross-cultural progress towards Aichi Target 1
Assessing public interest in nature is one of the key areas where culturomics shows great potential to contribute towards conservation science and practice. For example, internet search volume data has been suggested as a potential tool for measuring progress towards Aichi Target 1, which states that ‘by 2020, at the latest, people are aware of the values of biodiversity and the steps they can take to conserve and use it sustainably’. The underlying assumption of such an approach Would be that changes in internet search volume, generally considered a metric of public interest, would generally reflect changes in public awareness of biodiversity. However, this assumption holds true only if se…
Recoverable Earth: rewilding and the rise of a 21st century environmental narrative.
In this talk, I will posit argue that rewilding is giving form to a new environmental narrative that is different in structure and worldview to the dominant 20th century environmental narrative. An appreciation of underlying environmental narratives is important. This is because narratives are a guide to sense making in a complex and uncertain world and provide social movements, science and advocacy with legitimacy and purpose. Narratives create 'architectures' for the telling of normative stories about the state of the world and how we might act within it. I will first outline the origins and narrative elements of the traditional environmental narrative. I will analyse its wide-reaching in…