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Venn-Watson S, Reiner J, Jensen ED (2022). Pentadecanoylcarnitine is a newly discovered endocannabinoid with pleiotropic activities relevant to supporting physical and mental health. Sci Rep 12:13717.
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Le-Bert CR, Smith CR, Poindexter J, Ardente A, Meegan J, Wells RS, Venn-Watson S, Jensen ED, Sakhaee K (2018) Comparison of potential dietary and urinary risk factors for ammonium urate nephrolithiasis in two bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) popualtions. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol 315:F231-F237.
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Standorf K, Cortex-Hinjosa G, Venn-Watson S, Rivera R, Archer L, Wellehan Jr JFX (2018) Phylogenetic analysis of the genome of an enteritis-associated bottlenose dolphin mastadenovirus supports a clade infecting the cetartiodactyla. J Wildlf Dis 54: 112-121.
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Elnaggar MM, Abdellrazeq GS, Venn-Watson S, Jensen ED, Hulubei V, Fry LM, Sacco RE, Davis WC (2017) Identification of monoclonal antibodies cross-reactive with bottlenose dolphin orthologues of the major histocompatibility complex and leukocyte differentiation molecules. Vet Immunol and Immunopath 192:54-59.
De Guise S, Levin M, Gebhard E, Jasperse L, Hart Leslie Burdett, Smith CR, Venn-Watson S, Townsend F. Wells R, Balmer B, Zolman E, Rowles T, Schwacke L (2017) Changes in immune functions in bottlenose dolphins in the northern Gulf of Mexico associated with the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Inter Endang Spec Res 33:291-303.
Pasamontes A, Askenov AA, Schivo M, Rowles T, Smith CR, Schwacke LH, Wells RS, Yeates L, Venn-Watson S, Davis CE (2017) Non-invasive respiratory metabolite analysis associated with clinical disease in cetaceans: a Deepwater Horizon oil spill study. Environ Sci Technol DOI 10.1021/acs.est6b0b482.
Cortes-Hinojosa G, Gulland FMD, Goldstein T, Venn-Watson S, Rivera R, Archer L, Waltzek TB, Gray G, Wellehan JFX (2017) Development and validation of a qPCR for a rapid and specific diagnosis of California sea lion adenovirus (CSLAdV-1) and prevalence in wild and managed populations. J Vet Diagn Invest 29:193-197.
Fauquier DA, Litz J, Sanchez S, Colegrove K, Schwacke LH, Hart L, Saliki J, Smith C, Goldstein T, Bowen-Stevens S, McFee W, Fougeres E, Mase-Guthrie B, Stratton E, Ewing R, Venn-Watson S, Carmichael RH, Clemon-Chevis C, Hatchett W, Shannon D, Shipee S, Smith S, Staggs L, Tumlin MC, Wingers NL, Rowles SK (2017) Evaluation of morbillivirus exposure in cetaceans from the northern Gulf of Mexico 2010-2014. Endang Species Res 33:211-220.
Seitz KE, Smith CR, Marks SL, Venn-Watson SK, Ivancic M (2016) Use of ultrasonography to establish a technique for hepatobiliary imaging and to evaluate metabolic disease-associated liver changes in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus). J Zoo Wildlf Med 47:1034-1043.
Zamuruyev KO, Aksenov AA, Baird M, Pasamontes A, Parry C, Foutouhi S, Venn-Watson S, Weimer BC, Jean-Pierre Delplanque JP, Davis CE (2016) Enhanced non-invasive respiratory sampling from bottlenose dolphins for optimum breath metabolomics measurements. J Breath Res 10:046005.
Sobolesky PM, Parry C, Boxall B, Wells R, Venn-Watson S, Janech MG (2016) Proteomic analysis of non-depleted serum proteins from bottlenose dolphins uncovers a high vanin-1 phenotype. Scientific Reports 6:33879.
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Sobolesky PM, Harrell T, Parry C, Venn-Watson S, Janech MG (2016) Feeding a modified diet to bottlenose dolphins leads to an increase in serum adiponectin and sphingolipids consistent with improved insulin sensitivity. Front Endocrinol 7:33.
Colegrove KM, Venn-Watson S, Litz J, Kinsel MJ, Terio KA, Fougeres E, Ewing R, Pabst DA, McLellan WA, Raverty S, Saliki J, Fire S, Rappucci G, Bowen-Stevens S, Noble L, Costidis A, Barbieri M, Field C, Smith S, Carmichael RH, Chevis C, Hatchett W, Shannon D, Tumlin M, Lovewell G, McFee W, Rowles TK (2016) Fetal distress and in utero pneumonia in perinatal dolphins during the Northern Gulf of Mexico unusual mortality event. Dis Aqua Org 119:1-16.
Bik E, Costello C, Switzer A, Callahan B, Holmes S, Wells R, Carlin K, Jensen E, Venn-Watson S, Relman D (2016) Marine mammals harbor unique microbiotas shaped by and yet distinct from the sea. Nature Comm 7:10516.
Eberle KC, Neill JD, Venn-Watson S, McGill JL, Sacco RE (2015) Novel Atlantic bottlenose dolphin parainfluenza virus TtPIV-1 clusters with bovine PIV-3 genotype B strains. Virus Genes 1-11.
Venn-Watson S, Parry C, Baird M, Stevenson S, Carlin K, Daniels R, Smith CR, Jones R, Wells RS, Ridgway S, Jensen ED (2015) Increased dietary intake of saturated fatty acid heptadecanoic acid (C17:0) associated with decreasing ferritin and alleviated metabolic syndrome in dolphins. PLOS ONE 10(7):e0132117.
Venn-Watson S, Colegrove KM, Litz J, Kinsel M, Terio K, et al (2015) Adrenal gland and lung lesions in Gulf of Mexico common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) found dead following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. PLOS ONE 10(5): e0126538. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0126538.
Venn-Watson S, Jensen ED, Smith CR, Xitco M, Ridgway SH (2015) Annual survival, mortality, and longevity of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) at the U.S. Navy Marine Mammal Program, 2004-2013. J Am Vet Med Assoc 246:893-898.
Colegrove K, Venn-Watson S (2015) Histomorphology of the bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) pancreas and association of increasing islet β-cell size with chronic hypercholesterolemia. J Gen Comp Endocrinol 214:17-23.
Venn-Watson S, Garrison L, Litz J, Fougere E, Mase B, Rappucci G, Stratton G, Carmichael R, Odell D, Shannon D, Shippee S, Smith S, Staggs L, Tumlin M, Whitehead H, Rowles T (2015) Demographic clusters identified within the northern Gulf of Mexico common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) unusual mortality event: January 2010 - June 2013. PLOS ONE 10(2): e0117248.
Cortes-Hinojasa G, Gulland FMD, Goldstein T, Venn-Watson S, Rivera R, Waltzek TB, Salemi M, Wellehan JFX (2015) Phylogenomic characterization of California sea lion adenovirus-1. Infect Gen Evol 31:270-276.
Venn-Watson S (2014) Dolphins and Diabetes: Applying One Health for breakthrough discoveries. Front Endocrinol DOI 10.3389/fendo.2014.00227.
Phillips BE, Venn-Watson S, Archer LL, Nollens HH, Wellehan JFX (2014) Preliminary investigation of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) for HFE gene-related hemochromatosis. J Wild Dis. 50:891-895.
Smith CR, Poindexter JR, Meegan JM, Bobulescu IA, Jensen ED, Venn-Watson S, Sakhaee K (2014) Pathophysiological and physicochemical basis of ammonium urate stone formation in dolphins. J Urology. 10.1016/j.juro.2014.01.008.
Eberle KC, Waters TE, Jensen ED, Venn-Watson SK, Sacco RE (2013) Development and application of specific cytokine assays in tissue samples from a bottlenose dolphin with hyperinsulinemia. Frontiers Endo doi: 10.3389/fendo.2013.00134
Daniels R, Venn-Watson S, Smith CR (2013) Effects of freeze-thaw cycle on urine values from bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus). Aquat Mamm 39:330-334.
Smith CR, Venn-Watson S, Wells R, Johnson SP, Maffeo N, Balmer B, Rowles T, Schwacke L, Townsend F, Sakhaee K (2013) Comparisons of nephrolithiasis prevalence in two bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) populations. Frontiers Endo doi: 10.3389/fendo.2013.00145.
Venn-Watson S, Smith C, Stevenson S, Parry C, Daniels R, Jensen E, Cendejas V, Balmer B, Janech M, Neely BA, Wells R (2013) Blood-based indicators of insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus). Frontiers Endo 4:136.
Diaz MA, Bik EM, Carlin KP, Venn-Watson SK, Jensen ED, Jones SE, Gaston EP, Relman DA, Versalovic J (2013) Identification of Lactobacillus strains with probiotic features from the bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus). J Clin Microbiol 115:1037-1051.
Argade S, Smith CR, Shaw T, Zupkas P, Schmitt TL, Venn-Watson S, Sur RL (2013) Solubility of ammonium acid urate nephroliths from bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus). J Zoo Wildl Med 44:853-858.
Venn-Watson S, Smith CR, Jensen ED, Rowles T (2013) Assessing the potential health impacts of the 2003 and 2007 firestorms on bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in San Diego Bay. Inhal Toxicol 25:481-491.
Yeates L, Carlin KP, Baird M, Venn-Watson S, Ridgway S (2013) Nitric oxide in the breath of bottlenose dolphins: effects of breath hold duration, feeding, and lung disease. Mar Mamm Sci DOI: 10.1111/mms.12037.
Barbieri MM, Raverty S, Hanson MB, Venn-Watson SK, Ford JKB, Gaydos JK (2013) Spatial and temporal analysis of killer whale strandings in the North Pacific Ocean and the benefits of a coordinated stranding response protocol. Mar Mamm Sci DOI:10.1111/mms.12044.
Venn-Watson S, Carlin K, Andrews GA, Chavey PS, Mazzaro L (2013) Associations of ceruloplasmin and haptoglobin with inflammation and glucose in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) J Comp Clin Path DOI: 10.1007/s00580-013- 1738-0.
Smith CR, Jensen ED, Blankenship BA, Greenberg M, D’Agostini DA, Pretorius DH, Saenz NC, Noll N, Venn-Watson SK (2013) Fetal omphalocele in a common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus). Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine 44: 87–92.
Venn-Watson S, Benham C, Gulland FMD, Smith CR, St. Leger J, Yochem P, Nollens H, Saliki JT, Colegrove K, Wellehan JFX, Rivera R (2012) Clinical relevance of novel Otarine herpesvirus-3 in California sea lions (Zalophus californianus): association with juvenile strandings and B cell lymphoblastic lymphoma. Vet Research 43:85.
Meegan J, Romano T, Venn-Watson S, Smith CR, Sidor I, Jensen ED, Van Bonn WG, Pugh R, Ficht T, Adams G, Dunn JL (2012) Serologic response in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) infected with Brucella sp. using a newly developed dolphin-specific indirect enzyme-linked immunosorbant assay. Dis Aquat Org 102:73-85.
Mazzaro LM, Johnson SP, Fair PA, Bossart G, Carlin KP, Jensen ED, Smith CR, Andrews GA, Chavey PS, Venn-Watson S (2012) Iron indices among bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus): identifying populations at risk for iron overload. Comp Med 62:508-515.
Venn-Watson S, Daniels R, Smith C (2012) Thirty year retrospective evaluation of pneumonia in a bottlenose dolphin population. Dis Aquat Org 99:237-242.Venn-Watson S, Benham C, Carlin K, St. Leger (2012) Hemochromatosis and fatty change: building evidence for insulin resistance in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus). J Zoo Wildlf Med 43:S35-S47.
Wellehan JFX, Rivera R, Archer LL, Benham C, JK Muller, KM Colegrove, FMD Gulland, JA St. Leger, S Venn-Watson, HH Nollens (2011) Characterization of California sea lion polyomavirus 1: expansion of the known host range of the Polyomaviridae to Carnivora. Infect, Gen, Evol 11:987-996.
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Venn-Watson S, Jensen ED, Ridgway S (2011) Population health indicators of the Navy Marine Mammal Program bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) population, 1988-2007. J Am Vet Med Assoc 238: 356-360.
Venn-Watson S, Carlin K, Ridgway S (2011) Dolphins as animal models for type 2 diabetes: Sustained, postprandial hyperglycemia and hyperinsulinemia. Gen Comp Endocrin 170:193-199.
Venn-Watson S, Townsend FI, Daniels R, Sweeney J, McBain J, Klatsky L, Hicks C, Staggs L, Rowles T, Schwacke L, Wells RS, Smith CR (2010) Hypocitraturia in Atlantic bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus): Assessing a potential risk factor for urate nephrolithiasis. Comp Med 60:149-153.
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Venn-Watson S, Smith CR, Daniels R, Townsend F (2010) Clinical relevance of urate nephrolithiasis in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) Dis Aqua Org 89:167-177.
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Wellehan JFX, Yu Fahong, Venn-Watson S, Jensen E, Smith C, Farmerie WB, Nollens HH (2010) Characterization of San Miguel Sea Lion Virus populations using pyrosequencing-based methods. Infect Genet Evol 10:254-260.
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