Using epigenetic clocks to investigate changes in the age structure of critically endangered Māui dolphins by Keith M. Hernandez, Kaimyn B. O'Neill, Eleanor K. Bors, Debbie Steel, Joseph A. Zoller, Rochelle Constantine, Steve Horvath, C. Scott Baker

“…Application of the models to DNA from skin biopsy samples of living Māui dolphins revealed a shift from a median age of 8–9 years to a younger population aged 7–8 years 10 years later. …”
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Diet variation in a critically endangered marine predator revealed with stable isotope analysis by Courtney Ogilvy, Rochelle Constantine, Sarah J. Bury, Emma L. Carroll

“…We used stable isotope analysis to understand the foraging ecology of a critically endangered marine predator, the Māui dolphin. We analysed carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios of skin samples (n = 101) collected from 1993 to 2021 to investigate temporal changes in diet and niche space. …”
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Low mitochondrial genetic diversity in the Indian Ocean humpback dolphin Sousa plumbea in South African waters by S Lampert, RA Ingle, JA Jackson, K Gopal, S Plön

“…Our data show that the humpback dolphin has extremely low mitochondrial diversity (haplotype diversity, HD = 0.47; nucleotide diversity, π = 0.2%) with only 3 haplotypes identified, which is comparable to the Critically Endangered Māui dolphin Cephalorhynchus hectori maui and the Critically Endangered Mekong population of Irrawaddy dolphin Orcaella brevirostris. …”
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