Unal, Ebru http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5307-4578
Goertz, Caroline E. C.
Hobbs, Roderick C.
Suydam, Robert
Romano, Tracy
Funding for this research was provided by:
Office of Naval Research Global (N00014-14-1-0411)
Article History
Received: 9 March 2018
Accepted: 22 October 2018
First Online: 9 November 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.
: All applicable international, national, and/or institutional guidelines for the care and use of animals were followed. Sampling of belugas in Bristol Bay, AK, was conducted under National Marine Fisheries Service Scientific Research Permit #782-1719 (for the year 2008) and #14245 (for the years 2012–2014), and IACUC #AFSC/NWFC 2012-1 (for the years 2012–2014). Sampling of subsistence-hunted whales from Eastern Chukchi Sea was conducted under permit #17350 issued to the Department of Wildlife Management, North Slope Borough, AK. The research samples admitted at Mystic Aquarium between 2008 and 2012 were under NOAA/NMFS permit #42-1908; samples admitted from 2013 and 2014 were under permit #17298. This article does not contain any studies with human participants performed by any of the authors.