Corazzola Giorgia, Baini Matteo, Grattarola Carla, Panti Cristina, Marcer Federica, Garibaldi Fulvio, Berio Enrica, Mancusi Cecilia, Galli Matteo, Mazzariol Sandro, Fossi Maria Cristina, Centelleghe Cinzia, Casalone Cristina
Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, University of Padua, 35020 Legnaro, Italy.
Department of Physical Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Siena, 53100 Siena, Italy.
Animals (Basel). 2021 Jun 18;11(6):1824. doi: 10.3390/ani11061824.
Organs and content of the gastro-intestinal tract (GIT) of marine mammals are relevant for a variety of investigations and provide data to researchers from different fields. Currently used protocols applied to the GIT for specific analysis limit the possibility to execute other investigations and important information could be lost. To ensure a proper sample collection and a multidisciplinary investigation of the GIT of marine mammals, a new multi-sieves tool and a specific protocol have been developed. This new device and approach allowed the simultaneous sampling of the GIT and its content for the main investigations concerned. The samples collected during these preliminary trials were suitable to perform all the different research procedures considered in this work. The obtained results show that with a few and easy procedural adjustments, a multidisciplinary sampling and evaluation of the GIT of marine mammals is possible. This will reduce the risk of losing important data aimed at understanding the cause of death of the animal, but also biology and ecology of marine mammals, and other important data for their conservation and habitats management.
海洋哺乳动物胃肠道（GIT）的器官和内容物与各种研究相关，并为不同领域的研究人员提供数据。目前用于胃肠道特定分析的方案限制了进行其他研究的可能性，重要信息可能会丢失。为确保对海洋哺乳动物胃肠道进行适当的样本采集和多学科研究，已开发出一种新的多筛工具和特定方案。这种新设备和方法允许同时采集胃肠道及其内容物，用于相关的主要研究。在这些初步试验中收集的样本适合进行本研究中考虑的所有不同研究程序。获得的结果表明，通过一些简单的程序调整，对海洋哺乳动物胃肠道进行多学科采样和评估是可能的。这将降低丢失重要数据的风险，这些数据不仅有助于了解动物的死亡原因，还能了解海洋哺乳动物的生物学和生态学以及它们保护和栖息地管理的其他重要数据。
