Publications

Vanstreels RET, Piccinin I, Maraschin, M, Gallo L, Serafini PP, Pereira A, Santos AP, Egert L, Uhart M. 2023. Phtalate esters (plasticizers) in the uropygial gland and their relationship to plastic ingestión in seabirds along the coast of Espírito Santo, Eastern Brazil. Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine.

Uhart, M., Vanstreels, R., Quintana, F., Mattera, B., Montoya, N., Guzman, L., Pacheco Valles, H., Pizarro, G., Marull, C. Pozzi, L., Mörner, T., García Borboroglu. P., Crofts, S., Cook, R. and Karesh, W. En prensa. Four unusual mortality events of seabirds in the Patagonian Sea, 2000–2006: species affected and possible causes. Polar Biology.

Serafini PP, Righetti BPH, Vanstreels RTE, Bugoni L, Piazza CE, Lima D, Mattos JJ, Kolesnikovas KKM, Pereira A, Maraschin M, Piccinin I, Guilford T, Gallo L, Uhart MM, Lourenço RA, Bainya ACD, Lüchmannl KH. 2024. Biochemical and molecular biomarkers and their association with anthropogenic chemicals in wintering Manx shearwaters (Puffinus puffinus)? Marine Pollution Bulletin. 23, 116398.

Plaul E, Cecchetto F, Fernandez F, Gallo L, Grondona S, Lourido M, Ondarza P, Primost M, Vazquez N, Cappelletti N, Miglioranza K. 2024. Efectos de microplásticos en organismos acuáticos de América Latina y el Caribe. Revista De Salud Ambiental, 24(1), 88–99.

Gallo L, Pereira Serafini P, Vanstreels RET, Tamini L, Kolesnikovas C, Pereira A, Neves T, Nascimento G, Rodriguez Pirani LS, Picone AL, Romano RM, Alvarez K, Rodriguez Heredia SA, Chavez LN, Dellacasa RF, Uhart M. 2024. High frequency of plastic ingestion in procellariiform seabirds (albatrosses, petrels and shearwaters) in the Southwest Atlantic Ocean. Marine Pollution Bulletin. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 209, 117094.

Rowntree VJ, Uhart M, Sironi M, Chirife A, Di Martino M, La Sala L, Musmeci L, Mohamed N, Andrejuk J, McAloose D, Sala JE, Carribero A, Rally H, Franco M, Adler FR, Brownell Jr RL, Seger J y Rowles T. 2013. Unexplained recurring high mortality of southern right whale calves (Eubalaena australis) at Península Valdés, Argentina. Marine Ecology Progress Series: 493:275-289. DOI: 10.3354/meps10506

Gallo L, Quintana F y Uhart M. 2013. Serosurvey for selected infectious agents in two sympatric species of cormorants (Phalacrocorax atriceps and Ph. magellanicus) from coastal Patagonia, Argentina. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 49(3): 492-500.

Uhart M, Vanstreels RET, Gallo L, Cook RA, Karesh WB. 2020. Serological survey for select infectious agents in wild Magellanic penguins (Spheniscus magellanicus) in Argentina, 1994–2008. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 56(1): 66-81. doi: 10.7589/2019-01-022

Uhart MM, Gallo L and Quintana F. 2017. Review of diseases (pathogen isolation, direct recovery and antibodies) in albatrosses and large petrels worldwide. Bird Conservation International, 1-28.

Gallo L, Quintana F, Svagelj WS, Uhart M. 2017. Plasma Biochemistries and Morphometric Indices of Body Condition in Imperial Cormorant (Phalacrocorax atriceps) Chicks. Waterbirds 40: 118-128.

Vanstreels RWT, Piccinin INL, Maraschin M, Gallo L, Serafini PP, Pereira A, Santos AP, Egert L, Uhart MM. 2023. Phthalate esters (plasticizers) in the uropygial gland and their relationship to plastics ingestion in seabirds along the coast of espírito santo, eastern brazil. Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine 53(4): 733-743. doi:10.1638/2022-0053

Gallo L, Uhart M, Pereira A, Serafini PP. 2021. Métodos para Avaliação da Exposição a Poluentes Plásticos em Procellariiformes: Revisão e Padronização de Protocolos. Biodiversidade Brasileira-BioBrasil 11(3): 1-16. doi:10.37002/biobrasil.v11i3.1829

Vanstreels RET, Gallo L, Serafini PP, Santos AP, Egert L, Uhart MM. 2021. Ingestion of plastics and other debris by coastal and pelagic birds along the coast of Espírito Santo, Eastern Brazil. Marine. Pollution Bulletin 173: 113046. doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2021.113046

Gallo L, Vanstreels RET, Cook RA, Karesh WB, Uhart M. 2019. Hematology, plasma biochemistry, and trace element reference values for free-ranging adult Magellanic Penguins (Spheniscus magellanicus). Polar Biology 42(4): 733-742. doi:10.1007/s00300-019-02467-7

Gallo L, Quintana F, Svagelj WS y Uhart M. 2013. Hematology and Blood Chemistry Values in Free-Living Imperial Cormorants (Phalacrocorax atriceps). Avian diseases 57(4): 737-743.

Quintana F, Uhart MM, Gallo L, Mattera MB, Rimondi A, Gómez-Laich A. 2022. Heat-related massive chick mortality in an Imperial Cormorant Leucocarbo atriceps colony from Patagonia, Argentina. Polar Biology (45): 275-284. doi:10.1007/s00300-021-02982-6

Gallo VL, Vanstreels RET, Gallo L, Entrocassi AC, Peker L, Blanco GS, Rago MV, Rodriguez Fermepin M, Uhart MM. 2022. Chlamydiaceae-Like Bacterium in Wild Magellanic Penguins (Spheniscus magellanicus). Diversity 14(9):746. doi: 10.3390/d14090746