Marine Mammal Institute

Pitman, R. L., & Durban, J. W.. (2010). Killer whale predation on penguins in Antarctica. Polar Biology, 33(11), 1589 - 1594. doi:10.1007/s00300-010-0853-5

Pitman, R. L., Durban, J. W., Greenfelder, M., Guinet, C., Jorgensen, M., Olson, P. A., et al.. (2011). Observations of a distinctive morphotype of killer whale (Orcinus orca), type D, from subantarctic waters. Polar Biology, 34(2), 303 - 306. doi:10.1007/s00300-010-0871-3

Foote, A. D., Morin, P. A., Durban, J. W., Pitman, R. L., Wade, P., Willerslev, E., et al.. (2011). Positive selection on the killer whale mitogenome. Biology Letters, 7(1), 116 - 118. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2010.0638

Pitman, R. L., & Durban, J. W.. (2012). Cooperative hunting behavior, prey selectivity and prey handling by pack ice killer whales (Orcinus orca), type B, in Antarctic Peninsula waters. Marine Mammal Science, 28(1), 16 - 36. doi:10.1111/j.1748-7692.2010.00453.x

Parsons, K. M., Durban, J. W., Burdin, A. M., Burkanov, V. N., Pitman, R. L., Barlow, J., et al.. (2013). Geographic Patterns of Genetic Differentiation among Killer Whales in the Northern North Pacific. Journal of Heredity, 104(6), 737 - 754. doi:10.1093/jhered/est037

Foote, A. D., Morin, P. A., Pitman, R. L., Ávila-Arcos, M. C., Durban, J. W., van Helden, A., et al.. (2013). Mitogenomic insights into a recently described and rarely observed killer whale morphotype. Polar Biology, 36(10), 1519 - 1523. doi:10.1007/s00300-013-1354-0

Pitman, R. L., Totterdell, J. A., Fearnbach, H., Ballance, L. T., Durban, J. W., & Kemps, H.. (2015). Whale killers: Prevalence and ecological implications of killer whale predation on humpback whale calves off Western Australia. Marine Mammal Science, 31(2), 629 - 657. doi:10.1111/mms.12182

Joyce, T. W., Durban, J. W., Fearnbach, H., Claridge, D., & Ballance, L. T.. (2016). Use of time-at-temperature data to describe dive behavior in five species of sympatric deep-diving toothed whales. Marine Mammal Science, 32(3), 1044 - 1071. doi:10.1111/mms.12323

Pitman, R. L., Deecke, V. B., Gabriele, C. M., Srinivasan, M., Black, N., Denkinger, J., et al.. (2017). Humpback whales interfering when mammal-eating killer whales attack other species: Mobbing behavior and interspecific altruism?. Marine Mammal Science, 33(1), 7 - 58. doi:10.1111/mms.12343

Joyce, T. W., Durban, J. W., Claridge, D. E., Dunn, C. A., Fearnbach, H., Parsons, K. M., et al.. (2017). Physiological, morphological, and ecological tradeoffs influence vertical habitat use of deep-diving toothed-whales in the Bahamas. (S. Li, Ed.)PLOS ONE, 12(10), e0185113. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0185113

Pitman, R. L., Fearnbach, H., & Durban, J. W.. (2018). Abundance and population status of Ross Sea killer whales (Orcinus orca, type C) in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica: evidence for impact by commercial fishing?. Polar Biology, 41(4), 781 - 792. doi:10.1007/s00300-017-2239-4

Fearnbach, H., Durban, J. W., Ellifrit, D. K., & Pitman, R. L.. (2019). Abundance of Type A killer whales (Orcinus orca) in the coastal waters off the western Antarctic Peninsula. Polar Biology, 42(8), 1477 - 1488. doi:10.1007/s00300-019-02534-z

Foote, A. D., Martin, M. D., Louis, M., Pacheco, G., Robertson, K. M., Sinding, M. ‐H. S., et al.. (2019). Killer whale genomes reveal a complex history of recurrent admixture and vicariance. Molecular Ecology, 28(14), 3427-3444. doi:10.1111/mec.15099

Pitman, R. L., Durban, J. W., Joyce, T., Fearnbach, H., Panigada, S., & Lauriano, G.. (2019). Skin in the game: Epidermal molt as a driver of long‐distance migration in whales. Marine Mammal Science. doi:10.1111/mms.12661