How To Use Phocine In A Sentence

Diverse phocine seals – some apparently resembling the extant Pusa** seals – are known to have inhabited Paratethys during the Miocene (Paratethys was a brackish inland sea that covered much of south-east Europe and south-west Asia during the Miocene) and, according to the Paratethyan hypothesis, it is phocines from this region that managed to invade the Caspian Sea, later getting as far east as Lake Baikal. The most inconvenient seal
There are four clades that meet both of these criteria (74.2% - 99.9% nucleotide identity): the Sendai clade, the human parainfluenza-3 clade, the measles clade, and the phocine/canine distemper clade.
During the Pliocene, Paratethys was linked to the Arctic Ocean via a seaway just west of the Urals, apparently, and accordingly it has been proposed that the Ringed seal of the Arctic Ocean descends from a phocine that migrated north from the Paratethys (Ray 1976, Grigorescu 1977) [adjacent image shows a Ringed seal]. The most inconvenient seal
The enigma of the landlocked Baikal and Caspian seals addressed through phylogeny of phocine mitochondrial sequences. The most inconvenient seal
The manager of the Orkney Seal Rescue Centre is playing down the significance of the first confirmed case of phocine distemper virus in Scotland, in a common seal washed ashore at Dornoch last month.

There's phocine distemper that in Europe has wiped out a huge number of harbour seals," he said. Canada.com Top Stories
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The latest outbreak of phocine distemper virus has already killed more than 1,500 seals in other parts of Britain.
Empirical study of behavior can help prevent disease in species of conservation concern like phocine distemper in grey seals.
Pups Naan and Madras have been saved by marine specialists from the phocine distemper outbreak, which has killed about 3,680 seals since it returned to English shores this summer, according to the RSPCA.
When the mutual inspection, friendly glances, and exchange of civilities between the phocine and human tribes began to pall I told Nuredien to go full speed ahead to our usual spot. Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine