Presence of Disease in the Penguins and Skuas of Macquarie Island 2006

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Description

Metadata record for data from ASAC Project 2555 See the link below for public details on this project. This study investigated the role of Antarctic skuas in the transmission of diseases to royal and king penguins on Macquarie Island. Using blood samples and cloacal swabs we assessed the parasites and viral diseases of the Antarctic skua and the two penguin species. Up to 150 subjects of each species were inspected. We compared the sub-Antarctic environment of Macquarie with previous work in a continental environment. By understanding the role that skuas play in the dynamics of diseases in Antarctica we are better able to define the role of humans in the system. The download file contains several excel spreadsheets, a readme document and a copy of a poster. Taken from the readme: "There are three files that simply enumerate the samples taken and the sample numbers associated with each individual skua or penguin. In general we took two faecal swabs; one was preserved in viral transport medium (medium +streptomycin) and the other was preserved in BHB + glycerin. Both sets were then frozen at -80 degrees C. Blood was drawn from the brachial vein and where possible, one drop was used to make a thin smear that was air dried. The rest of the blood sample was allowed to clot for at least 3 hours then spun down by centrifuge. The serum was drawn off and has been stored at -80. The RBC pellet was treated with Queen's lysis buffer and has been stored at 4 degrees C. The other three files are the results of testing for Newcastle Disease and Infectious Bursal Diisease. They are redundant files. One contains the results from both pathogens and the other two contain just the results from a single set of pathogens. Finally, there is a copy of a poster presentation from the International penguin conference in Hobart in 2007."Quality: 2018-08-29 - The original files was reformatted to fit OBIS/GBFI/IPT Biodiversity.AQ tracking standards, and a new datasheet "PenguinDisease_2006.csv" was created. The new dataset contains datasetID, occurrenceID, recordNumber, eventDate, year, month, day, decimalLatitude, decimalLongitude, locationID, locality, island, institutionCode, country, countryCode, lifeStage, samplingProtocol, occurrenceStatus, occurrenceRemarks, and basisOfRecord. The lowest taxonomical rank of the species identified that could be determined is provided, after matched in WoRMS (World Register of Marine Species).

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Shellam, G. (2006, updated 2018) Presence of Disease in the Penguins and Skuas of Macquarie Island

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Australian Antarctic Data Centre. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 100caf86-ad3e-4c13-be7b-4c838d221dfa. Australian Antarctic Data Centre publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Atlas of Living Australia.

Keywords

Occurrence; Occurrence

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Point of truth metadata record	https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/ASAC_2555 ASCII DIF 9.9

Contacts

GEOFF SHELLAM (DECEASED)

Point Of Contact

INVESTIGATOR

Department of Microbiology The Queen Elizabeth II Medical Centre University of Western Australia

6009 Nedlands

Western Australia

DATA OFFICER AADC

Metadata Provider ●
Distributor ●
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DATA CENTER CONTACT

Australian Antarctic Division

203 Channel Highway

7050 Kingston

Tasmania

metadata@aad.gov.au

+61 3 6232 3244

https://data.aad.gov.au/

GEOFF SHELLAM (DECEASED)

Point Of Contact

TECHNICAL CONTACT

Department of Microbiology The Queen Elizabeth II Medical Centre University of Western Australia

6009 Nedlands

Western Australia

Geographic Coverage

OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN > MACQUARIE ISLAND GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR

Bounding Coordinates	South West [-54.79, 158.76], North East [-54.48, 158.965]

Taxonomic Coverage

The role of Antarctic skuas (Stercorarius maccormicki) in the transmission of diseases to two penguin species, royal and king penguins on Macquarie Island

Species	Aptenodytes patagonicus (King penguin), Eudyptes schlegeli (Royal Penguin), Stercorarius maccormicki (Antarctic skua)

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date	2006-02-18 / 2006-03-18

Bibliographic Citations

van den Brink, N.W., Riddle Martin J., van den Huevel-Greve Martine., van Franeker Jan Andries 2010. Contrasting time trends of organic contaminants in Antarctic pelagic and benthic food webs. Mar. Pollut. Bull. (2010) doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2010.09.002

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers	100caf86-ad3e-4c13-be7b-4c838d221dfa
	https://data.aad.gov.au/ipt/resource?r=penguin_disease