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- Received October 21, 2025
- Revision received February 25, 2026
- Accepted March 2, 2026
- Published online March 9, 2026.
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- 1Department of Comparative Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California 94304
- 2The Marine Mammal Center, Sausalito, California 94965
- 3Department of Neurology & Neurological Sciences, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California 94304
- Correspondence should be addressed to Megan Wyeth at mwyeth{at}stanford.edu.
Author contributions
Author contributions: M.W. and P.S.B. designed research; M.W., D.D.R.K., C.J.T., C.F., and P.S.B. performed research; M.W. and P.S.B. analyzed data; M.W. and P.S.B. wrote the paper.
Disclosures
The authors declare no competing financial interests.
This work was supported by the National Science Foundation (OCE-131821), National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (ES021960), National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NS107290, NS136433), and National Institutes of Health Office of the Director (OD010989, OD011121). Animals were sampled under the Marine Mammal Protection Act permit number 18786. The data that support the findings of this study are openly available in Dryad at http://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.t4b8gtjd5.
Funding
National Science Foundation (NSF)
OCE-131821HHS | NIH | National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (DEHS)
ES021960HHS | NIH | National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
NS107290; NS136433HHS | NIH | NIH Office of the Director (OD)
OD010989; OD011121
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