[MARMAM] New paper on compositional discrimination of decompression and decomposition gas bubbles

[Yara Bernaldo de Quirós Miranda]

Dear Colleagues,



We are glad to announce a new publication, where we demonstrated that gas
bubbles in bycaught marine mammals arise from supersatured tissues. This is
new evidence of nitrogen accumulation in the tissues of freely diving
marine mammals. Our results also show the importance of sampling gas
bubbles from the coronary veins or thoracic regions since these seemed to
be the last locations in being affected by putrefaction.



Bernaldo de Quirós Y, Seewald JS, Sylva SP, Greer B, Niemeyer M, et al.
(2013) Compositional Discrimination of Decompression and Decomposition Gas
Bubbles in Bycaught Seals and Dolphins. PLoS ONE 8(12): e83994.
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0083994



The article is freely available from:

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0083994;jsessionid=519C305327054FC47332C4665D5D64EF



We also would like to take this chance to inform you that gas analyses can
be run at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, MA, USA, or at the
University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain.  You can
find a step-by-step protocol and a data collection sheet in the following
link:

http://www.whoi.edu/hpb/viewPage.do?id=129756



Please let us know if you have any further questions.

Regards,

PhD Yara Bernaldo de Quirós
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