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Selected Publications (2016-2025)
2025
Dutta, S., Upadhyay, A., Adapa, S. R., O’Corry-Crowe, G., Tripathy, S., & Jiang, R. H. (2025). Ancient Origins and Global Diversity of Plague: Genomic Evidence for Deep Eurasian Reservoirs and Recurrent Emergence. Pathogens, 14(8), 797.
Adapa, S. R., Hendrix, K., Upadhyay, A., Dutta, S., Vianello, A., O’Corry-Crowe, G., ... & Jiang, R. H. (2025). Genetic Evidence of Yersinia pestis from the First Pandemic. Genes, 16(8), 926.
Carvalho J, Chérubin LM, O’Corry-Crowe GM (in press) Autonomous wave gliders as a tool to characterize delphinid habitats along the Florida Atlantic coast. PeerJ.
Storrie L, Hussey NE, MacPhee SA, O’Corry-Crowe G, Loseto LL. (2025) Summer foraging habitat suitability for highly mobile male beluga whales in the Eastern Beaufort Sea and Arctic Archipelago. Arctic Science.
O’Corry-Crowe G, Ghazal M, Gillespie M, Galvin M, Harasimo J, Storrie L, and Watt CA. (2025) Use of tusks by narwhals, Monodon monoceros, in foraging, exploratory, and play behavior Frontiers in Marine Science. 12:1518605.
2024
Ferrer T, Boveng P, Hauser DDW, Withrow D, Burkanov V, Quinn TP, O'Corry-Crowe G (2024) Genetic and evolutionary divergence of harbour seals (Phoca vitulina) in Iliamna Lake, Alaska. Biology Letters 20: 20240166.
Alsaidi M, Al-Jassani MG, Bang1 C, O’Corry-Crowe G, Watt C, Ghazal, Zhuang H (2024) Localization and tracking of beluga whales in aerial video using deep learning. Frontiers in Marine Science 11, 2024
2023
Gavazzi L, Cooper LN, Usip S, Suydam R, Stimmelmayer R, George JC, O’Corry-Crowe G, Hsu C-W, Thewissen J (2023) Comparative embryology of Delphinapterus leucas (beluga whale), Balaena mysticetus (bowhead whale), and Stenella attenuata (pan-tropical spotted dolphin) (Cetacea: Mammalia). Journal of Morphology.
Storrie L, Loseto LL, Sutherland EL, MacPhee SA, O’Corry-Crowe G, Hussey NE (2023) Do beluga whales truly migrate? Testing a key trait of the classical migration syndrome. Movement Ecology 11:53.
2022
Martin, M. J., Halliday, W. D., Storrie, L., Citta, J. J., Dawson, J., Hussey, N. E., ... & Insley, S. J. Exposure and behavioral responses of tagged beluga whales (Delphinapterus leucas) to ships in the Pacific Arctic. Marine Mammal Science.
Hamilton, C. D., Lydersen, C., Aars, J., Acquarone, M., Atwood, T., Baylis, A., ... & Kovacs, K. M. (2022). Marine mammal hotspots across the circumpolar Arctic. Diversity and Distributions.
Storrie, L., Hussey, N. E., MacPhee, S. A., O'Corry‐Crowe, G., Iacozza, J., Barber, D. G., & Loseto, L. L. (2022). Empirically testing the influence of light regime on diel activity patterns in a marine predator reveals complex interacting factors shaping behaviour. Functional Ecology, 36(11), 2727-2741.
Liu, X., Rønhøj Schjøtt, S., Granquist, S. M., Rosing‐Asvid, A., Dietz, R., Teilmann, J., ... & Tange Olsen, M. (2022). Origin and expansion of the world’s most widespread pinniped: Range‐wide population genomics of the harbour seal (Phoca vitulina). Molecular Ecology, 31(6), 1682-1699.
Storrie, L., Hussey, N. E., MacPhee, S. A., O’Corry-Crowe, G., Iacozza, J., Barber, D. G., ... & Loseto, L. L. (2022). Year-Round Dive Characteristics of Male Beluga Whales From the Eastern Beaufort Sea Population Indicate Seasonal Shifts in Foraging Strategies. Frontiers in Marine Science.
Burek-Huntington, K. A., Shelden, K. E. W., Goetz, K. T., Mahoney, B. A., Vos, D. J., Reiner, J. L., ... & O’Corry-Crowe, G. (2022). Life history, contaminant and histopathologic assessment of beluga whales, Delphinapterus leucas, harvested for subsistence in Cook Inlet, Alaska, 1989-2005.
2021
O’Corry-Crowe, G., Ferrer, T., Citta, J. J., Suydam, R., Quakenbush, L., Burns, J. J., Monroy, J., Whiting, A., Seaman, G., Goodwin, Sr., W., Meyer, M., Rodgers, S., & Frost, K. J. (2021). Genetic history and stock identity of beluga whales in Kotzebue Sound. Polar Research, 40(S1). https://doi.org/10.33265/polar.v40.7623
Ibrahim, A. K., Zhuang, H., Chérubin, L. M., Erdol, N., O'Corry-Crowe, G., & Ali, A. M. (2021). A multimodel deep learning algorithm to detect North Atlantic right whale up-calls. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 150(2), 1264-1272.
Shelden, K. E. W., Mahoney, B. A., O’Corry-Crowe, G., Stanek, R. T., & Frost, K. J. (2021). Beluga, Delphinapterus leucas, harvest in Cook Inlet, Alaska, 1987 to 2022.
2020
McGuire, T. L., Shelden, K. E., Himes Boor, G. K., Stephens, A. D., McClung, J. R., Garner, C., Goertz, C., Burek-Huntington, K., O'Corry-Crowe, G., & Wright, B. (2020). Patterns of mortality in endangered Cook Inlet beluga whales: Insights from pairing a long-term photo-identification study with stranding records. Marine Mammal Science.
O’Corry-Crowe G, Suydam R, Quakenbush L, Smith T, Lydersen C, Kovacs K, Orr J, Harwood L, Litovka D, and Ferrer T. (2020) Group structure and kinship in beluga whale societies. Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-67314-w
Lowry LF, Citta JJ, O’Corry-Crowe G, Quakenbush LT, Frost KJ, Suydam R, Hobbs RC and Gray T. (2020) Distribution, abundance, harvest, and status of western Alaska beluga whale, Delphinapterus leucas, stocks. Marine Fisheries Review 81: 54-71
Hobbs RC, Reeves RR, Prewitt JS, Desportes G, Breton-Honeyman K, Christensen T, Citta JJ, Ferguson SH, Frost KJ, Garde E, Gavrilo M, Ghazal M, Glazov DM, Gosselin JF, Hammill M, Hansen RG, Harwood L, Heide-Jørgensen MP, Inglangasuk G, Kovacs KM, Krasnova VV, Kuznetsova DM, Lee DS, Lesage V, Litovka DI, Lorenzen ED, Lowry LF, Lydersen C, Matthews CJD, Meschersky IG, Mosnier A, O’Corry-Crowe G, Postma L, Quakenbush LT, Shpak OV, Skovrind M, Suydam RS, and Watt CA (2020) Global review of the conservation status of Monodontid stocks. Marine Fisheries Review 81: 1-53.
Hartel, E.F., Noke Durden, W. and O’Corry-Crowe, G. (2020) Testing satellite telemetry within narrow ecosystems: nocturnal movements and habitat use of bottlenose dolphins within a convoluted estuarine system. Animal Biotelemetry 8: 13. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40317-020-00200-4
Hastings KH, Rehberg MJ, O’Corry-Crowe GM, Pendleton GW, Jemison LA, Gelatt TS. (2020) Demographic consequences and characteristics of recent population mixing and colonization in Steller sea lions, Eumetopias jubatus. Journal of Mammalogy. 101(1): 107-120 (28 December 2019) https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyz192
2019
Shelden KEW, Burns JJ, McGuire TL, Burek-Huntington KA, Vos DJ, Goertz CEC, O’Corry-Crowe G, Mahoney BA. (2019) Reproductive status of female beluga whales from the endangered Cook Inlet population. Marine Mammal Science. Doi: 10.1111/mms.12648.
Lowry L, Hobbs R, O’Corry-Crowe G. (2019) Delphinapterus leucas Cook Inlet subpopulation (Pallas 1776). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T61442A50384653. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-1.RLTS.T61442A50384653.en
Noke Durden W, O’Corry-Crowe G, Shippee S, Jablonski T, Rodgers S, Mazzoil M, Howells E, Hartel E, Potgieter B, Londono C, Moreland L, Townsend F, McCulloch S, Bossart G. (2019) Small-Scale Movement patterns, activity budgets, and association patterns of radio-tagged Indian River Lagoon bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus). Aquatic Mammals 45: 66-87.
2018
Rehberg M, Jemison L, Womble JM, O’Corry-Crowe G. (2018). Winter movements and long-term dispersal of Steller sea lions in the Glacier Bay region of Southeast Alaska. Endangered Species Research. 37: 11-24.
Citta JJ, Lowry LF, Quakenbush LT, Kelly BP, Fischbach AS, London JM, Jay CV, Frost KJ, O’Corry-Crowe G, Crawford JA, Boveng PL, Cameron M, Von Duyke AL, Nelson M, Harwood LA, Richard P, Suydam S, Heide-Jørgensen MP, Hobbs RC, Litovka DI, Marcoux M, Whiting A, Kennedy AS, George JC, Orr J, Gray T. (2018) A multi-species synthesis of satellite telemetry data in the Pacific Arctic (1987–2015): Overlap of marine mammal distributions and core use areas. Deep Sea Research II: Topical Studies in Oceanography 152: 132-153
Pagán HJT, Ferrer T, O’Corry-Crowe G. (2018). Positive selection in coding regions and motif duplication in regulatory regions of bottlenose dolphin MHC Class II genes. Plos ONE. 13(9): e0203450. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal. pone.0203450.
Dooley CT, Ferrer T, Pagàn H, O’Corry-Crowe G. (2018). Bridging Immunogenetics and immunoproteomics: model positional scanning library analysis for major histocompatibility complex II DQ in Tursiops truncatus. Plos ONE. 13(8): e0201299. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0201299
O’Corry-Crowe, G., Suydam, R., Quakenbush, L., Potgieter, B., Harwood, L., Litovka, D., Ferrer, T., Citta, J., Burkanov, V., Frost, K. & Mahoney, B. (2018). Migratory culture, population structure and stock identity in North Pacific beluga whales (Delphinapterus leucas). PloS ONE, 13(3), e0194201.
Shelden K, Goetz K, Hobbs RC, Hoberecht LK, Laidre KL, Mahoney BA, McGuire TL, Norman SA, O’Corry-Crowe G, Vos DJ, Ylitalo GM, Mizroch SA, Atkinson S, Burek-Huntington KA, and Garner C (2018) Beluga Whale, Delphinapterus leucas, Satellite-Tagging and Health Assessments in Cook Inlet, Alaska, 1999-2002. NOAA Technical Memorandum, NMFS-AFSC-369
Citta JJ, O’Corry-Crowe G, Quakenbush LT, Bryan AL, Ferrer T, Olson MJ, Potgieter B. (2018) Assessing the abundance of Bristol Bay belugas with genetic mark-recapture methods. Marine Mammal Science. https://doi.org/10.1111/mms.12472
2017
O'Corry-Crowe, G. (2017) Beluga whale Delphinapterus leucas. In: Würsig, B., Thewissen, J. G. M., & Kovacs, K. M. (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals. Academic Press.
Cordes LS, O’Corry-Crowe G and Small RJ. (2017) Surreptitious sympatry: exploring the ecological and genetic separation of two sibling species. Ecology and Evolution. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.2774
2016
O’Corry-Crowe G, Mahoney A, Suydam R, Quakenbush L, Whiting A, Lowry L, and Harwood L. (2016). Genetic profiling links changing sea ice to shifting beluga whale migration patterns. Biology Letters 12: 20160404. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2016.0404
Citta J, Richard P, Lowry L, O’Corry-Crowe G, Marcoux M, Suydam R, Quakenbush L, Hobbs R, Litovka DI, Frost KJ, Gray T, Orr J, Tinker B, Aderman H, and Druckenmiller M. (2016), Satellite telemetry reveals population specific winter ranges of beluga whales in the Bering Sea. Marine Mammal Science. DOI: 10.1111/mms.12357
Pendleton, G.W., Hastings, K.K., Rea, L.D., Jemison, J.A., O’Corry-Crowe, G.M., and Beckman, K.B. (2016). Short-term post-branding survival of Steller sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus) pups: investigating the effect of health status on survival. Marine Mammal Science. 32 (3): 931-944
Bonin CA, Goebel ME, O’Corry-Crowe GM, and Burton RS. (2016). Impacts of ecology and behavior on Antarctic fur seal remating and relatedness. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 476: 72-77
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