About the Authors

Heather M. Christiansen

mccannh@uwindsor.ca

Affiliation Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada

Victor Lin

Affiliation Independent Researcher, Taipei, Taiwan

Sho Tanaka

Affiliation School of Marine Science and Technology, Tokai University, Shimizu, Shizuoka, Japan

Anatoly Velikanov

Affiliation Division of Marine and Freshwater Biological Resources, Sakhalin Research Institute of Fisheries & Oceanography, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia

Henry F. Mollet

Affiliations Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, Moss Landing, California, United States of America, Monterey Bay Aquarium, Monterey, California, United States of America

Sabine P. Wintner

Affiliations KwaZulu-Natal Sharks Board, Umhlanga Rocks, South Africa, Biomedical Resource Unit, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Sonja V. Fordham

Affiliation Shark Advocates International (a project of The Ocean Foundation), Washington, DC, United States of America

Aaron T. Fisk

Affiliation Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada

Nigel E. Hussey

Affiliation Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HMC NEH. Performed the experiments: HMC. Analyzed the data: HMC NEH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VL ST AV HFM SPW SVF. Wrote the paper: HMC NEH. Editoral input: VL ST AV HFM SPW SVF ATF.