Publications

Bagge, L.E., Koopman, H. N., Rommel, S. A., McLellan, W. A., and D. A. Pabst. 2012. Lipid class and depth-specific thermal properties in the blubber of the short-finned pilot whale and the pygmy sperm whale. Journal of Experimental Biology. 215: 4330-4339.

Costidis, A., Berman, M., Cole. T., Knowlton, A., McLellan, W. Neilson, J., Pabst, D., and Raverty, S. 2013. Sharp-trauma by vessel collisions with pinnipeds and cetaceans. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms. 103:251-256.

Cummings, E.W., Pabst, D.A., Blum, J.E., Barco, S.G., Davis, S.J., Thayer, V.G., Adimey, N., and W.A. McLellan. 2014. Spatial and temporal patterns of habitat use and mortality of the Florida manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostris) in the Mid-Atlantic States of North Carolina and Virginia from 1991 to 2012. Aquatic Mammals. 40(2):126-138.

Denk M, McLellan W, Pabst DA, Rommel S, Keenan T, Sharp S, Niemeyer M, Hunter N, Block G, Nelson N, Harms C. (2023). Melon and rostral muscle morphology of Gervais' beaked whale (Mesoplodon europaeus): Alternating patterns of bilateral asymmetry. The Anatomical Record. 633 – 657. https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.25301

Dunkin, R.C., McLellan, W.A., Blum, J. and D.A. Pabst. 2010. The buoyancy of the integument of Atlantic bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus): Effects of growth, reproduction and nutritional state. Marine Mammal Science. 26(3):573-587.

Erwin, P.M., Rhodes, R.G., Kiser, K.B., Keenan-Bateman, T.F., McLellan, W.A., and D.A. Pabst. (2017). High diversity and unique composition of gut microbiomes in pygmy (Kogia breviceps) and dwarf (K. sima) sperm whales. Scientific Reports 7(1):7205 https://rdcu.be/dXoOE

Favilla, A., Adamczak, S., Fougeres, E., Brownlow, A., Davison, N., McLellan, W.A., Pabst, D.A., Doeschate, M., Tift, M.S., Wells, R., Costa, D.P. (2024) Examining Bergmann’s rule in a cosmopolitan marine mammal, the bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus). Marine Mammal Science.

Jackson, O.N., Keenan. T.F., Nelson-Maney, N.P., Rommel, S.A., McLellan, W.A., Pabst, D.A., Costidis, A.M., Caron, K.M., Kernagis, D.N., Rotstein, D.S., Thayer, V.G., Harms, C.A., Piscitelli-Doshkov, M.A., Doshkov, P., Schweikert, L.E., Yopak, K.E., Braun, M., Tift, M.S. (2025). Meningeal Lymphatic and Glymphatic Structures in a Pelagic Delphinid (Delphins delphis). Animals.

Keenan-Bateman, T.F., McLellan, W.A., Costidis, A.M., Harms, C.A., Rotstein, D.S., Potter, C.W., Rommel, S.A., and D.A. Pabst. (2018). The habitat and anatomic distribution of the parasitic nematode Crassicauda sp. within its host, the pygmy sperm whale (Kogia breviceps). Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 127:163 – 175. https://doi.org/10.3354/dao03205

Keenan-Bateman, T.F., McLellan, W.A., Harms, C.A., Piscitelli, M.A., Barco, S.G., Thayer, V.G., Lovewell, G.N., Clark, K.L., Doshkov, P.K., Rotstein, D.S., Potter, C.W., and D.A. Pabst. (2016). Prevalence and anatomic site of Crassicauda sp. infection, and its use in species identification, in kogiid whales from the mid-Atlantic United States. Marine Mammal Science 32(3):868 – 883. https://doi.org/10.1111/mms.12300

Keenan, T. F., McLellan,W. A., Rommel, S. A., Costidis, A. M., Harms, C. A., Thewissen, J. G. M., Rehorek, S. J., Rotstein, D. S., Gay, M. D., Taylor, A. R., Koopman, H. N., Wang, Y., Kamel, S., & Pabst, D. A. (2025). Histochemical indications for a chemically complex signal produced by the cervical gill slit gland of the pygmy sperm whale (Kogia breviceps). The Anatomical Record, 308(9), 2413–2432. https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.25628  

Keenan, T.F., McLellan, W.A., Rommel, S.A., Costidis, A.M., Harms, C.A., Thewissen, H.J., Rotstein, D.S., Gay, M.D., Potter, C.W., Taylor, A.R. and Wang, Y., (2021). Gross and histological morphology of the cervical gill slit gland of the pygmy sperm whale (Kogia breviceps). The Anatomical Record, 1– 16.  https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.24707

Keenan, T.F., Jackson, O.N., Nelson-Maney, N., Rommel, S., McLellan, W.A., Pabst, D.A., Costidis, A., Caron, K., Kernagis, D., Rotstein, D., Braun, M., Tift, M.S. (2025). Morphology of the glymphatic and meningeal lymphatic structures of the bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus). Scientific Reports.

Kielhorn, C.E., Dillaman, R.M., Kinsey, S.T., McLellan, W.A., Gay, D.M., Dearolf, J.L. and D.A. Pabst. 2013. Locomotor muscle profile of a deep (Kogia breviceps) versus shallow (Tursiops truncatus) diving cetacean. Journal of Morphology. 274:663-675.

McLellan, W.A., Arthur, L. A., Mallette, S.D., Thornton, S.W., McAlarney, R.J., Read, A.J., and D.A. Pabst. 2014. Longline hook testing in the mouths of pelagic odontocetes. ICES Journal of Marine Science. doi:10.1093/icesjms/fsu181

McLellan, W.A., Berman, M., Cole. T., Costidis, A., Knowlton, A., Neilson, J., Pabst, D., and Raverty, S. 2013. Blunt force trauma induced by vessel collisions with large whales. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms. 103:245-25.

Miller, M.L., Glandon, H., Tift. M.S., Pabst, D.A., Koopman, H.K. (2022). Remarkable consistency of spinal cord microvasculature in highly adapted diving odontocetes. Frontiers in Physiology.

Olmstead AR, Mathieson OL, McLellan WA, Pabst DA, Keenan TF, Goldstein T, Erwin PM. (2023). Gut bacterial communities in Atlantic bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) throughout a disease-driven (Morbillivirus) unusual mortality event. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 99(9). https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiad097

Piscitelli, M.A., McLellan, W.A., Rommel, S.A., Blum, J., Barco, S.G. and D.A. Pabst .2010. Lung size and thoracic morphology in shallow (Tursiops truncatus) and deep (Kogia spp.) diving cetaceans. Journal of Morphology. 269:1520-1538.

Staudinger, M.D., R. McAlarney, W. A. McLellan, and D.A. Pabst. 2014. Foraging ecology and niche segregation in pygmy (Kogia breviceps) and dwarf (Kogia sima) sperm whales from waters of the U.S. mid-Atlantic coast. Marine Mammal Science. 30(2): 626-655.

Velten, B.P., Dillaman, R. M., Kinsey, S. T., McLellan, W. A. and D. A. Pabst. 2013. Novel locomotor muscle design in extreme deep-diving whales. Journal of Experimental Biology. 216:1862-1871.

Yordy, J.E., Pabst, D.A., McLellan, W.A., Wells, R.S., Rowles, T., and J. Kucklick. 2010. Tissue-specific distribution and whole body burden estimates of persistent organic pollutants in the bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus). Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 29(6):1263-1273.