Acknowledgments
We thank the North Carolina Marine Mammal Stranding teams who responded
to these strandings, provided care for these animals, and collected the
samples and data used in this study. Specifically, we are grateful to
Ann Pabst, Bill McLellan, and their lab members at UNC Wilmington for
sharing samples from these specimens. Special thanks to Kevin Huncik for
his expertise with the lab instrumentation and Jared Ragland for
developing analytical infrastructure.