List of works - Ailsa J. Hall

Absorption of decabromodiphenyl ether and other organohalogen chemicals by grey seals (Halichoerus grypus).

scientific article published in February 2005

Annual, seasonal and individual variation in hematology and clinical blood chemistry profiles in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) from Sarasota Bay, Florida.

scientific article published on 4 May 2007

Blood chemistry in southern elephant seal mothers and pups during lactation reveals no effect of handling.

scientific article

Brucella antibody seroprevalence in Antarctic seals (Arctocephalus gazella, Leptonychotes weddellii and Mirounga leonina).

scientific article

Cetacean morbillivirus: current knowledge and future directions.

scientific article

Climate change causing starvation in harbour porpoises?

scientific article published on October 2007

Common cancer in a wild animal: the California sea lion (Zalophus californianus) as an emerging model for carcinogenesis

scientific article

Comparison of polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) induced effects on innate immune functions in harbour and grey seals

scientific article published in August 2005

Comparison of the 1988 and 2002 phocine distemper epizootics in British harbour seal Phoca vitulina populations

scientific article published on 01 February 2010

Context-dependent associations between heterozygosity and immune variation in a wild carnivore ⬇️

scientific article published on 4 November 2015

Cryostorage of hepatic microsomes from two marine mammal species: effects on cytochrome P450-monooxygenase activities and content ⬇️

scientific article published on May 1, 2003

Declining reproductive success in the Gulf of St. Lawrence's humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) reflects ecosystem shifts on their feeding grounds

scientific article published on 24 December 2020

Detection and effects of harmful algal toxins in Scottish harbour seals and potential links to population decline.

scientific article

Determining pregnancy status in harbour seals using progesterone concentrations in blood and blubber

scientific article published on 06 June 2020

Development of an animal-borne blood sample collection device and its deployment for the determination of cardiovascular and stress hormones in phocid seals.

scientific article

Effects of capture stress on free-ranging, reproductively active male Weddell seals.

scientific article published on 5 January 2010

Evaluating morphometric and metabolic markers of body condition in a small cetacean, the harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena).

scientific article

Evaluation of circulating eosinophil count and adrenal gland function in California sea lions naturally exposed to domoic acid

scientific article

Evidence for a genetic basis of urogenital carcinoma in the wild California sea lion

scientific article published in December 2014

Evidence of land-sea transfer of the zoonotic pathogen Campylobacter to a wildlife marine sentinel species.

scientific article published on 31 December 2014

Exposure of harbour seals Phoca vitulina to Brucella in declining populations across Scotland

scientific article

Exposure to Persistent Organic Pollutants and First-Year Survival Probability in Gray Seal Pups

scientific article published on 01 August 2009

Geography and stage of development affect persistent organic pollutants in stranded and wild-caught harbor seal pups from central California ⬇️

scientific article published on August 15, 2011

Gray Seal

scientific article

Harbor seal pup dispersal and individual morphology, hematology, and contaminant factors affecting survival

Hematologic and serum biochemical reference intervals for free-ranging common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) and variation in the distributions of clinicopathologic values related to geographic sampling site

scientific article published on 01 August 2009

Hematology and serum chemistry in stranded and wild-caught harbor seals in central California: reference intervals, predictors of survival, and parameters affecting blood variables

scientific article published on October 2010

Immune activity, body condition and human-associated environmental impacts in a wild marine mammal

scientific article

Infection, haematology and biochemistry in grey seal pups exposed to chlorinated biphenyls

article by Ailsa Hall et al published February 1997 in Marine Environmental Research

Isolation of salmonellae from seals from UK waters ⬇️

scientific article published on May 6, 1995

Isolation of two cytochrome P450 cDNAs, CYP1A1 and CYP1A2, from harp seal (Phoca groenlandica) and grey seal (Halichoerus grypus).

scientific article

Mercury in cetaceans: Exposure, bioaccumulation and toxicity

scientific article published on 30 July 2019

Molecular cloning and expression of leptin in gray and harbor seal blubber, bone marrow, and lung and its potential role in marine mammal respiratory physiology

scientific article published on 14 April 2005

Not just fat: investigating the proteome of cetacean blubber tissue.

scientific article published on 16 February 2018

Obtaining accurate glucose measurements from wild animals under field conditions: comparing a hand held glucometer with a standard laboratory technique in grey seals

scientific article

Overcoming the challenges of studying conservation physiology in large whales: a review of available methods.

scientific article

Partial pressure of oxygen in adipose tissue and its relationship with fatness in a natural animal model of extreme fat deposition, the grey seal

publication published on 01 August 2021

Persistent Organic Pollutant Burden, Experimental POP Exposure, and Tissue Properties Affect Metabolic Profiles of Blubber from Gray Seal Pups

article by Kelly J Robinson et al published 2 November 2018 in Environmental Science & Technology

Persistent Organic Pollutant Burden, Experimental POP Exposure, and Tissue Properties Affect Metabolic Profiles of Blubber from Gray Seal Pups

article by Kelly J. Robinson et al published 19 October 2018 in Environmental Science & Technology

Perturbation drives changing metapopulation dynamics in a top marine predator

scientific article published on 03 June 2020

Phocid seal leptin: tertiary structure and hydrophobic receptor binding site preservation during distinct leptin gene evolution

scientific article published in 2012

Phocine distemper virus in the North and European Seas – Data and models, nature and nurture

article

Phocine distemper virus: current knowledge and future directions

scientific article

Phylogenomic insights to the origin and spread of phocine distemper virus in European harbour seals in 1988 and 2002

scientific article published on 01 February 2019

Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) in grey seals during their first year of life--are they thyroid hormone endocrine disrupters?

scientific article

Polychlorinated biphenyls, DDT, polybrominated diphenyl ethers, and organic pesticides in United Kingdom harbor seals (Phoca vitulina)--mixed exposures and thyroid homeostasis.

scientific article published in May 2007

Predicting global killer whale population collapse from PCB pollution

scientific article published in Science

Predicting the effects of polychlorinated biphenyls on cetacean populations through impacts on immunity and calf survival.

scientific article

Prevalence of Toxoplasma gondii antibodies in pinnipeds from Antarctica

article

Prevalence of Urogenital Carcinoma in Stranded California Sea Lions ( Zalophus Californianus) from 2005-2015.

scientific article published on 2 March 2018

Pup to adult photo-ID: Evidence of pelage stability in gray seals

article

Real-time PCR assays for the identification of harbor and gray seal species and sex: A molecular tool for ecology and management

article by Iveta Matejusová et al published 21 March 2012 in Marine Mammal Science

Region-wide changes in marine ecosystem dynamics: state-space models to distinguish trends from step changes

scientific article published on 9 January 2012

Salmonella infection in grey seals (Halichoerus grypus), a marine mammal sentinel species: pathogenicity and molecular typing of Salmonella strains compared with human and livestock isolates

scientific article

Seasonal variation in harbour seal (Phoca vitulina) blubber cortisol - A novel indicator of physiological state?

scientific article published on 24 February 2016

Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii in North-eastern Atlantic harbor seal (Phoca vitulina vitulina) and grey seal (Halichoerus grypus)

scientific article published on 02 February 2011

Shining new light on mammalian diving physiology using wearable near-infrared spectroscopy

scientific article published on 18 June 2019

Surveillance for zoonotic and selected pathogens in harbor seals Phoca vitulina from central California.

scientific article published on September 2014

The 1988 and 2002 phocine distemper virus epidemics in European harbour seals

scientific article published in January 2006

The immunocompetence handicap hypothesis in two sexually dimorphic pinniped species--is there a sex difference in immunity during early development?

scientific article

The impact of the 1993 Braer oil spill on grey seals in Shetland

scientific article

The modelling and assessment of whale-watching impacts

article

The risk of infection from polychlorinated biphenyl exposure in the harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena): a case-control approach

scientific article

The role of glucocorticoids in naturally fasting grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) pups: dexamethasone stimulates mass loss and protein utilisation, but not departure from the colony.

scientific article published on 29 November 2012

The role of organochlorines in cancer-associated mortality in California sea lions (Zalophus californianus).

scientific article published in January 2005

Thyroid hormones as biomarkers in grey seals

article by Ailsa J Hall et al published June 1998 in Marine Pollution Bulletin

Transplacental transfer of organochlorines in California sea lions (Zalophus californianus).

scientific article published in January 2007

Using blubber explants to investigate adipose function in grey seals: glycolytic, lipolytic and gene expression responses to glucose and hydrocortisone

scientific article published on 10 August 2017

Viral emergence in marine mammals in the North Pacific may be linked to Arctic sea ice reduction

scientific article published on 07 November 2019

Widespread neonatal infection with phocid herpesvirus 1 in free-ranging and stranded grey seals Halichoerus grypus.

scientific article published in March 2019

List of works by Ailsa J. Hall

Absorption of decabromodiphenyl ether and other organohalogen chemicals by grey seals (Halichoerus grypus).

Annual, seasonal and individual variation in hematology and clinical blood chemistry profiles in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) from Sarasota Bay, Florida.

Blood chemistry in southern elephant seal mothers and pups during lactation reveals no effect of handling.

Brucella antibody seroprevalence in Antarctic seals (Arctocephalus gazella, Leptonychotes weddellii and Mirounga leonina).

Cetacean morbillivirus: current knowledge and future directions.

Climate change causing starvation in harbour porpoises?

Common cancer in a wild animal: the California sea lion (Zalophus californianus) as an emerging model for carcinogenesis

Comparison of polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) induced effects on innate immune functions in harbour and grey seals

Comparison of the 1988 and 2002 phocine distemper epizootics in British harbour seal Phoca vitulina populations

Context-dependent associations between heterozygosity and immune variation in a wild carnivore ⬇️

Cryostorage of hepatic microsomes from two marine mammal species: effects on cytochrome P450-monooxygenase activities and content ⬇️

Declining reproductive success in the Gulf of St. Lawrence's humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) reflects ecosystem shifts on their feeding grounds

Detection and effects of harmful algal toxins in Scottish harbour seals and potential links to population decline.

Determining pregnancy status in harbour seals using progesterone concentrations in blood and blubber

Development of an animal-borne blood sample collection device and its deployment for the determination of cardiovascular and stress hormones in phocid seals.

Effects of capture stress on free-ranging, reproductively active male Weddell seals.

Evaluating morphometric and metabolic markers of body condition in a small cetacean, the harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena).

Evaluation of circulating eosinophil count and adrenal gland function in California sea lions naturally exposed to domoic acid

Evidence for a genetic basis of urogenital carcinoma in the wild California sea lion

Evidence of land-sea transfer of the zoonotic pathogen Campylobacter to a wildlife marine sentinel species.

Exposure of harbour seals Phoca vitulina to Brucella in declining populations across Scotland

Exposure to Persistent Organic Pollutants and First-Year Survival Probability in Gray Seal Pups

Geography and stage of development affect persistent organic pollutants in stranded and wild-caught harbor seal pups from central California ⬇️

Gray Seal

Harbor seal pup dispersal and individual morphology, hematology, and contaminant factors affecting survival

Hematologic and serum biochemical reference intervals for free-ranging common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) and variation in the distributions of clinicopathologic values related to geographic sampling site

Hematology and serum chemistry in stranded and wild-caught harbor seals in central California: reference intervals, predictors of survival, and parameters affecting blood variables

Immune activity, body condition and human-associated environmental impacts in a wild marine mammal

Infection, haematology and biochemistry in grey seal pups exposed to chlorinated biphenyls

Isolation of salmonellae from seals from UK waters ⬇️

Isolation of two cytochrome P450 cDNAs, CYP1A1 and CYP1A2, from harp seal (Phoca groenlandica) and grey seal (Halichoerus grypus).

Mercury in cetaceans: Exposure, bioaccumulation and toxicity

Molecular cloning and expression of leptin in gray and harbor seal blubber, bone marrow, and lung and its potential role in marine mammal respiratory physiology

Not just fat: investigating the proteome of cetacean blubber tissue.

Obtaining accurate glucose measurements from wild animals under field conditions: comparing a hand held glucometer with a standard laboratory technique in grey seals

Overcoming the challenges of studying conservation physiology in large whales: a review of available methods.

Partial pressure of oxygen in adipose tissue and its relationship with fatness in a natural animal model of extreme fat deposition, the grey seal

Persistent Organic Pollutant Burden, Experimental POP Exposure, and Tissue Properties Affect Metabolic Profiles of Blubber from Gray Seal Pups

Persistent Organic Pollutant Burden, Experimental POP Exposure, and Tissue Properties Affect Metabolic Profiles of Blubber from Gray Seal Pups

Perturbation drives changing metapopulation dynamics in a top marine predator

Phocid seal leptin: tertiary structure and hydrophobic receptor binding site preservation during distinct leptin gene evolution

Phocine distemper virus in the North and European Seas – Data and models, nature and nurture

Phocine distemper virus: current knowledge and future directions

Phylogenomic insights to the origin and spread of phocine distemper virus in European harbour seals in 1988 and 2002

Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) in grey seals during their first year of life--are they thyroid hormone endocrine disrupters?

Polychlorinated biphenyls, DDT, polybrominated diphenyl ethers, and organic pesticides in United Kingdom harbor seals (Phoca vitulina)--mixed exposures and thyroid homeostasis.

Predicting global killer whale population collapse from PCB pollution

Predicting the effects of polychlorinated biphenyls on cetacean populations through impacts on immunity and calf survival.

Prevalence of Toxoplasma gondii antibodies in pinnipeds from Antarctica

Prevalence of Urogenital Carcinoma in Stranded California Sea Lions ( Zalophus Californianus) from 2005-2015.

Pup to adult photo-ID: Evidence of pelage stability in gray seals

Real-time PCR assays for the identification of harbor and gray seal species and sex: A molecular tool for ecology and management

Region-wide changes in marine ecosystem dynamics: state-space models to distinguish trends from step changes

Salmonella infection in grey seals (Halichoerus grypus), a marine mammal sentinel species: pathogenicity and molecular typing of Salmonella strains compared with human and livestock isolates

Seasonal variation in harbour seal (Phoca vitulina) blubber cortisol - A novel indicator of physiological state?

Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii in North-eastern Atlantic harbor seal (Phoca vitulina vitulina) and grey seal (Halichoerus grypus)

Shining new light on mammalian diving physiology using wearable near-infrared spectroscopy

Surveillance for zoonotic and selected pathogens in harbor seals Phoca vitulina from central California.

The 1988 and 2002 phocine distemper virus epidemics in European harbour seals

The immunocompetence handicap hypothesis in two sexually dimorphic pinniped species--is there a sex difference in immunity during early development?

The impact of the 1993 Braer oil spill on grey seals in Shetland

The modelling and assessment of whale-watching impacts

The risk of infection from polychlorinated biphenyl exposure in the harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena): a case-control approach

The role of glucocorticoids in naturally fasting grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) pups: dexamethasone stimulates mass loss and protein utilisation, but not departure from the colony.

The role of organochlorines in cancer-associated mortality in California sea lions (Zalophus californianus).

Thyroid hormones as biomarkers in grey seals

Transplacental transfer of organochlorines in California sea lions (Zalophus californianus).

Using blubber explants to investigate adipose function in grey seals: glycolytic, lipolytic and gene expression responses to glucose and hydrocortisone

Viral emergence in marine mammals in the North Pacific may be linked to Arctic sea ice reduction

Widespread neonatal infection with phocid herpesvirus 1 in free-ranging and stranded grey seals Halichoerus grypus.