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Shiro Wada
Researcher at Fisheries Agency
Publications - 3
Citations - 257
Shiro Wada is an academic researcher from Fisheries Agency. The author has contributed to research in topics: Whale & Balaenoptera. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 3 publications receiving 230 citations. Previous affiliations of Shiro Wada include National Fisheries Research & Development Institute.
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A newly discovered species of living baleen whale
TL;DR: A new species of Balaenoptera is described, characterized by its unique cranial morphology, its small number of baleen plates, and by its distant molecular relationships with all of its congeners.
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Balaenoptera omurai is a newly discovered baleen whale that represents an ancient evolutionary lineage
Takeshi Sasaki,Masato Nikaido,Shiro Wada,Tadasu K. Yamada,Ying Cao,Masami Hasegawa,Norihiro Okada,Norihiro Okada +7 more
TL;DR: The data suggest that B. omurai evolved as an ancient independent lineage that diverged much earlier than B. brydei and B. borealis, which were previously believed to be closely related to B. edeni.
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Re-examination of balaenopterid whales from Wakayama and Oita prefectures, Japan
TL;DR: Balaenoptera edeni Anderson, 1878/9, 、いわゆるニタリクジラB.