Dear colleagues, My co-authors and I are pleased to announce the following publication: *Molecular analysis of dolphin morbillivirus: A new sensitive detection method****based on nested RT-PCR.* Centelleghe C, Beffagna G, Zanetti R, Zappulli V, Di Guardo G,Mazzariol S. Abstract: Cetacean Morbillivirus (CeMV) has been identified as the most pathogenic virusfor cetaceans. Over the past three decades, this RNA virus has caused several outbreaks of lethal disease in odontocetes and mysticetes worldwide. Isolationand identification of CeMV RNA is very challenging in whales because of the poor preservation status frequently shown by tissues from stranded animals. Nestedreverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (nested RT-PCR) is used instead of conventional RT-PCR when it is necessary to increase the sensitivity and thespecificity of the reaction. This study describes a new nested RT-PCR technique useful to amplify small amounts of the cDNA copy of Cetacean morbillivirus (CeMV)when it is present in scant quantity in whales' biological specimens. This technique was used to analyze different tissues (lung, brain, spleen and otherlymphoid tissues) from one under human care seal and seven cetaceans stranded along the Italian coastline between October 2011 and September 2015. Awell-characterized, 200 base pair (bp) fragment of the dolphin Morbillivirus (DMV) haemagglutinin (H) gene, obtained by nested RT-PCR, was sequenced and used to confirm DMV positivity in all the eight marine mammals under study. In conclusion, this nested RT-PCR protocol can represent a sensitive detectionmethod to identify CeMV-positive, poorly preserved tissue samples. Furthermore, this is also a rather inexpensive molecular technique, relatively easy to apply. . The paper is available online at the following page: *http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166093416300350* Kind Regards, Sandro Mazzariol