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Balaenoptera physalus

Known as: Whales, Finback, Finback whale, Whale, Finback 
The species Balaenoptera physalus, in the family Balaenopteridae, characterized by a large, strongly curved, dorsal fin. It is the second largest of… 
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Highly Cited
2012
Highly Cited
2012
Fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus) population identity in the western Mediterranean Sea
Archival bottom-mounted audio recorders were deployed in nine different areas of the western Mediterranean Sea, Strait of… 
Highly Cited
2008
Highly Cited
2008
Geographic variation in Northwest Atlantic fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus) song: implications for stock structure assessment.
Passive acoustic data are increasingly being used as a tool for helping to define marine mammal populations and stocks. Fin whale… 
Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Bioacoustics: Only male fin whales sing loud songs
The low-frequency vocalizations of fin and blue whales are the most powerful and ubiquitous biological sounds in the ocean. Here… 
Review
1998
Review
1998
Blue whale habitat and prey in the California Channel Islands
Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
Blue and fin whales observed on a seafloor array in the northeast pacific.
Calling blue and fin whales have been tracked using relative travel times and amplitudes from both direct and multipath arrivals… 
Highly Cited
1990
Highly Cited
1990
20-Hz pulses and other vocalizations of fin whales, Balaenoptera physalus, in the Gulf of California, Mexico.
Low-frequency vocalizations were recorded from fin whales, Balaenoptera physalus, in the Gulf of California, Mexico, during three… 
Highly Cited
1979
Highly Cited
1979
Mechanical properties of bone tissues with greatly differing functions.
Review
1973
Review
1973
THE ACTIVITIES OF BUTYRYLCHOLINESTERASE AND CARBONIC ANHYDRASE, THE RATE OF ANAEROBIC GLYCOLYSTS, AND THE QUESTION OF A CONSTANT DENSITY OF GLIAL CELLS IN CEREBRAL CORTICES OF VARIOUS MAMMALIAN…
Abstract— The question of a constant density of glial cells in mammalian cerebral cortex regardless of species was examined by… 
Highly Cited
1960
Highly Cited
1960
The significance of carnosine and anserine in striated skeletal muscle.
Highly Cited
1954
Highly Cited
1954
Structural and functional organization of mammalian cerebral cortex: The correlation of neurone density with brain size. Cortical neurone density in the fin whale (Balaenoptera Physalus L.) with a…
  • D. B. Tower
  • The Journal of comparative neurology
  • 1954
  • Corpus ID: 10396499
Both Nissl (1898) and von Bonin ( '48) have remarked that an increase in brain size seemed to be associated with a decrease in… 
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