Marine Mammal Institute

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. (2013). Review: Marine Mammal Species of India. Marine Mammal Science, 29(4), 777 - 779. doi:10.1111/mms.12061

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

Pitman, R. L., Ballance, L. T., & Bost, C. A.. (2012). Incidence of Wing Deformities (‘Angel Wing’) Among Masked Boobies at Clipperton Island: Life History Consequences and Insight into Etiology. The Wilson Journal of Ornithology, 124(3), 597 - 602. doi:10.1676/11-208.1

Durban, J. W., & Pitman, R. L.. (2011). Antarctic killer whales make rapid, round-trip movements to subtropical waters: evidence for physiological maintenance migrations?. Biology Letters, 8(2), 274 - 277. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2011.0875

Lewallen, E. A., Pitman, R. L., KJARTANSON, S. H. A. W. N. A. L., & Lovejoy, N. R.. (2011). Molecular systematics of flyingfishes (Teleostei: Exocoetidae): evolution in the epipelagic zone. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 102(1), 161 - 174. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2010.01550.x

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

Morin, P. A., Archer, F. I., Foote, A. D., Vilstrup, J., Allen, E. E., Wade, P., et al.. (2010). Complete mitochondrial genome phylogeographic analysis of killer whales (Orcinus orca) indicates multiple species. Genome Research, 20(7), 908 - 916. doi:10.1101/gr.102954.109

Feeney, R. F., Lavenberg, R. J., & Pitman, R. L.. (2010). Description of a complete Liopropoma larva from the Gulf of California (Mexico) and its comparison with L. fasciatum and L. longilepis (Actinopterygii: Epinephelidae). Ciencias Marinas, 36(1), 83 - 89. doi:10.7773/cm.v36i1.1674

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

Durban, J. W., Ellifrit, D., Dahlheim, M., Waite, J., Matkin, C., Barrett-Lennard, L., et al.. (2010). Photographic mark-recapture analysis of clustered mammal-eating killer whales around the Aleutian Islands and Gulf of Alaska. Marine Biology, 157(7), 1591 - 1604. doi:10.1007/s00227-010-1432-6

Wade, P. R., Kennedy, A., LeDuc, R., Barlow, J., Carretta, J., Shelden, K., et al.. (2010). The world's smallest whale population?. Biology Letters, 7(1), 83 - 85. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2010.0477

Pitman, R. L. (2009). Book review: Albatross. Their world, their ways. Wilson Bulletin, 121, 217-218.

Pitman, R. L. (2009). Indo-Pacific beaked whale (Indopacetus pacificus). In Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals (2nd ed., pp. 600 - 602). San Diego: Elsevier. doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-373553-9.00140-1

Weimerskirch, H., Le Corre, M., Bost, C. A., Ballance, L. T., Pitman, R. L., & Charpy, L.. (2009). L’avifaune et l’écologie des oiseaux marin. Clipperton, environnement et biodiversité d’un microcosme océanique, 381-392.

Pitman, R. L. (2009). Mesoplodont whales (Mesoplodon spp.). In Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals (2nd ed., pp. 721 - 726). San Diego: Elsevier. doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-373553-9.00167-X

Zhao, X., Barlow, J., Taylor, B. L., Pitman, R. L., Wang, K., Wei, Z., et al.. (2008). Abundance and conservation status of the Yangtze finless porpoise in the Yangtze River, China. Biological Conservation, 141(12), 3006 - 3018. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2008.09.005

Jefferson, T. A., Webber, M. A., & Pitman, R. L.. (2008). Marine Mammals of the World (p. 573). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.

LeDuc, R. G., Robertson, K. M., & Pitman, R. L.. (2008). Mitochondrial sequence divergence among Antarctic killer whale ecotypes is consistent with multiple species. Biology Letters, 4(4), 426 - 429. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2008.0168

Andrews, R. D., Pitman, R. L., & Ballance, L. T.. (2008). Satellite tracking reveals distinct movement patterns for Type B and Type C killer whales in the southern Ross Sea, Antarctica. Polar Biology, 31(12), 1461 - 1468. doi:10.1007/s00300-008-0487-z

Krahn, M. M., Pitman, R. L., Burrows, D. G., Herman, D. P., & Pearce, R. W.. (2008). Use of chemical tracers to assess diet and persistent organic pollutants in Antarctic Type C killer whales. Marine Mammal Science, 24(3), 643 - 663. doi:10.1111/j.1748-7692.2008.00213.x

Eguchi, T., Gerrodette, T., Pitman, R. L., Seminoff, J. A., & Dutton, P. H.. (2007). At-sea density and abundance estimates of the olive ridley turtle Lepidochelys olivacea in the eastern tropical Pacific. Endangered Species Research, 3, 191 - 203. doi:10.3354/esr003191

Pitman, R. L., Perryman, W. L., LeRoi, D., & Eilers, E.. (2007). A Dwarf Form of Killer Whale in Antarctica. Journal of Mammalogy, 88(1), 43 - 48. doi:10.1644/06-MAMM-A-118R1.1