Blood tests reveal gene expression changes in dolphins following Deepwater Horizon oil spill

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Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0272345

Article Title: Transcriptome profiling of blood from common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in the northern Gulf of Mexico to enhance health assessment capabilities

Author Countries: U.S.A.

Funding: This research was made possible by a grant from The Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (https://gulfresearchinitiative.org/) to L.H.S. (SA 18-12). Data collection from 2013 and 2014 was part of the Deepwater Horizon NRDA conducted cooperatively among NOAA, other Federal and State Trustees, and BP. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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