Published research by the Texas Marine Mammal Stranding Network

Barron G, Jefferson T. 1993. First records of the melon-headed whale (Peponocephala electra) from the Gulf of Mexico. The Southwestern Naturalist 38:82-85.

Clark L, Cowan D, Pfeiffer D. 2006. Morphological changes in the Atlantic bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) adrenal gland associated with chronic stress. Journal of Comparative Pathology 135:208-216.

Clark L, Cowan D, Pfeiffer D. 2008. A Morphological and Histological Examination of the Pan-tropical Spotted Dolphin (Stenella attenuata) and the Spinner Dolphin (Stenella longirostris) Adrenal Gland. Anatomia, Histologia, Embryologia 37:153-159.

Clark L, Cowan D, Worthy G, Haubold E. 2002. An anatomical and pathological examination of the first recorded stranding of a Fraser's dolphin (Lagenodelphis hosei) in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico. Gulf of Mexico Science 20:38-43.

Clark L, Pfeiffer D, Cowan D. 2005. Morphology and histology of the Atlantic bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) adrenal gland with emphasis on the medulla. Anatomia, Histologia, Embryologia 34:132-140.

Clark L, Turner J, Cowan D. 2005. Involution of lymphoid organs in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) from the western Gulf of Mexico: Implications for life in an aquatic environment. The Anatomical Record 282:67-73.

Cowan D. 1994. Involution and cystic transformation of the thymus in the bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus. Veterinary Pathology 31:648-653.

Cowan D. 1995. Amyloidosis in the bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus. Veterinary Pathology 32:311-314.

Cowan D. 2001. Public health aspects of certain transmissible diseases of marine mammals. In: Dierauf L, Gulland F, editors. CRC Handbook of Marine Mammal Medicine: Health, Disease, and Rehabilitation: CRC Press.

Cowan D. 2008. Pathological assessment of acoustic noise effects in stranded dolphins. Bioacoustics 17:297-298.

Cowan D, Curry B. 2008. Histopathology of the alarm reaction in small odontocetes. Journal of Comparative Pathology 139:24-33.

Cowan D, Haubold E, Tajima Y. 2008. Histological, immunohistochemical and pathological features of the pituitary gland of odontocete cetaceans from the western Gulf of Mexico. Journal of Comparative Pathology 139:67-80.

Cowan D, Smith T. 1999. Morphology of the lymphoid organs of the bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus. The Journal of Anatomy 194:505-517.

Cowan D, Tajima Y. 2006. The thyroid gland in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) from the Texas coast of the Gulf of Mexico: Normal structure and pathological changes. Journal of Comparative Pathology 135:217-225.

Cowan DF, Smith TL. 1995. Morphology of complex lymphoepithelial organs of the anal canal (“anal tonsil”) in the bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus. Journal of Morphology 223:263-268.

Fire S, Leighfield T, Miller G, Piwetz S, Sabater E, Whitehead HR. 2020. Association between red tide exposure and detection of corresponding neurotoxins in bottlenose dolphins from Texas waters during 2007-2017. Marine Environmental Research 162: 1-8.

Fire S, Wang Z, Byrd M, Whitehead H, Paternoster J, Morton S. 2011. Co-occurrence of multiple classes of harmful algal toxins in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) stranding during an unusual mortality event in Texas, USA. Harmful Algae 10:330-336.

Haubold E, Aronson J, Cowan D, McGinnis M, Cooper C. 1998. Isolation of fungal rDNA from bottlenose dolphin skin infected with Loboa loboi. Medical Mycology 36:263-267.

Haubold E, Cooper C, Wen J, McGinnis M, Cowan D. 2000. Comparative morphology of Lacazia loboi (syn. Loboa loboi) in dolphins and humans. Medical Mycology 38:9-14.

Haubold E, McGinnis M, Cooper Jr C, Cowan D. 2002. Molecular identification of the infective agent of Lobo's disease of dolphins. In: Pfeiffer C, editor. Molecular and Cell Biology of Marine Mammals: Krieger Publishing Company. p 186.

Haubold E, Worthy G, Tarpley R. 1994. Incidence of human interaction in marine mammal strandings on the Texas coast from 1980-1993. In: Proceedings of the International Association for Aquatic Animal Medicine. p 48.

Knisely A, Goodman Z, Cowan D. 2000. Hyaline inclusion bodies in hepatoctyes of marine mammals: Physiologic fibrinogen storage or congestion globules? In: Hepatology. Philadelphia, PA: WB Saunders Co. p 486A-486A.

Lettrich MD, Asaro MJ, Borggaard DL, Dick DM, Griffis RB, Litz JA, et al. 2023. Vulnerability to climate change of United States marine mammal stocks in the western North Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, and Caribbean. PLoS ONE 18(9): e0290643

Lipscomb TP, Kennedy S, Moffett D, Krafft A, Klaunberg B, Lichy J, Regan G, Worthy G, Taubenberger J. 1996. Morbilliviral epizootic in bottlenose dolphins of the Gulf of Mexico. Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation 8:283-290.

Litz J, Baran M, Bowen-Stevens S, Carmichael R, Colegrove K, Garrison L, Fire S, Fougeres E, Hardy R, Holmes S, Jones W, Mase-Guthrie B, Odell D, Rosel P, Saliki J, Shannon D, Shippee S, Smith S, Stratton E, Tumlin M, Whitehead H, Worthy G, Rowles T. 2014. Review of historical unusual mortality events (UMEs) in the Gulf of Mexico (1990-2009): Providing context for the multi-year northern Gulf of Mexico cetacean UME declared in 2010. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 112:161-175.

Litz JA, Ronje EI, Whitehead HR, Garrison LP. 2019. Updated abundance estimates for common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) inhabiting West Bay, Texas. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 29:1959-1970.

McCormack, M.A., McFee, W.E., Whitehead, H.R., Piwetz, S., Dutton, J. Exploring the use of SEM-EDS analysis to measure the distribution of major, minor, and trace elements in bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) teeth. Biological Trace Element Research (2021).

Meador J, Ernest D, Hohn A, Tilbury K, Gorzelany J, Worthy G, Stein J. 1999. Comparison of elements in bottlenose dolphins stranded on the beaches of Texas and Florida in the Gulf of Mexico over a one-year period. Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 36:87-98.

Neuenhoff R, Cowan D, Whitehead H, Marshall C. 2011. Prenatal data impacts common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) growth parameters estimated by length-at-age curves. Marine Mammal Science 27:195-216.

Piwetz S, Whitehead HR, Godlove L, Cowan D. 2011. An underwater recording stethoscope based on an omnidirectional hydrophone for use in dolphin rehabilitation and diagnosis. Aquatic Mammals 37:202.

Piwetz, Sarah, Ronje, Errol, Whitehead, Heidi. 2022. Forty-year historical analysis of marine mammal strandings in Texas, from 1980-2019. Journal of Cetacean Research and Management. 23. 1-47.

Ronje EI, Piwetz S, Whitehead HR, Mullin KD. 2020. Intraspecific aggression towards common bottlenose dolphin calves, northern Gulf of Mexico. Gulf and Caribbean Research 31:SC6-SC12.

Ronje EI, Whitehead HR, Barry K, Piwetz S, Struve J, Lecours V, Garrison L, Wells RS, Mullin KD. 2020. Abundance and occurrence of common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in three estuaries of the northwestern Gulf of Mexico. Gulf and Caribbean Research 31:18-34.

Ronje EI, Whitehead HR, Piwetz S, Mullin KD. 2018. Field summary for common bottlenose dolphin surveys on the Texas, Gulf of Mexico Coast, 2014-2016. In: National Marine Fisheries Service, Southeast Fisheries Science Center PRBD-2018-02. p 31.

Ronje EI, Whitehead HR, Mullin KD. 2018. The 1990 Tursiops truncatus (common bottlenose dolphin) mass die-off in East Matagorda Bay, Texas: New insight into a cold case. Southeastern Naturalist 17:411-423.

Rosel P, Watts-Whitehead H. 2008. Hurricane impacts on bottlenose dolphins in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Gulf of Mexico Science 25:88-94.

Russell, J., Jeffery, N., Bailey, J., Osborn, S., Le-Bert, C., Whitehead, H. and Nollens, H. 2021. Cerebrospinal fluid sampling in a bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) under general anesthesia. Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine 51(4):1056-61.

Smith TL, Turnbull BS, Cowan DF. 1999. Morphology of the complex laryngeal gland in the Atlantic bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus. The Anatomical Record: An Official Publication of the American Association of Anatomists 254:98-106.

Stein J, Tilbury K, Meador J, Gorzelany J, Worthy G, Krahn M. 2003. Ecotoxicological investigations of bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) strandings: Accumulation of persistent organic chemicals and metals. In: Vos J, Bossart G, Fournier M, TJ OS, editors. Toxicology of Marine Mammals. London: Taylor & Francis Group. p 458.

Tajima Y, Shimada A, Yamada T, Cowan D. 2007. Amyloidosis in two Stejneger's beaked whales (Mesoplodon stejnegeri) stranded at the Sea of Japan. Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine 38:108-113.

Tarpley R. 1987. Texas marine mammal stranding network. Southwestern Veterinarian 38:51-58.

Turnbull B, Cowan D. 1998. Myocardial contraction band necrosis in stranded cetaceans. Journal of Comparative Pathology 118:317-327.

Turnbull B, Cowan D. 1999. Angiomatosis, a newly recognized disease in Atlantic bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) from the Gulf of Mexico. Veterinary Pathology 36:28-34.

Turnbull BS, Cowan DF. 1999. Synovial joint disease in wild cetaceans. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 35:511-518.

Turner J, Clark L, Haubold E, Worthy G, Cowan D. 2006. Organ weights and growth profiles in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) from the northwestern Gulf of Mexico. Aquatic Mammals 32:46.

Venn-Watson S, Colegrove K, Litz J, Kinsel M, Terio K, Saliki J, Fire S, Carmichael R, Chevis C, Hatchett W, Pitchford J, Tumlin M, Field C, Smith S, Ewing R, Fauquier D, Lovewell G, Whitehead H, Rotstein D, McFee W, Fougeres E, Rowles T. 2015. Adrenal gland and lung lesions in Gulf of Mexico common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) found dead following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. PloS One 10:e0126538.

Venn-Watson S, Garrison L, Litz J, Fougeres E, Mase B, Rappucci G, Stratton E, Carmichael R, Odell D, Shannon D, Shippee S, Smith S, Staggs L, Tumlin M, Whitehead H, Rowles T. 2015. Demographic clusters identified within the northern Gulf of Mexico common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) Unusual Mortality Event: January 2010-June 2013. PloS One 10:e0117248.

Wilkinson D, Worthy GA. 1999. Marine mammal stranding networks. Conservation and Management of Marine Mammals 2:396-411.

Worthy G. 1998. Patterns of bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus, strandings in Texas. In: NOAA Technical Report NMFS 143. p 47-56.