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The Sharklogger Network—monitoring Cayman Islands shark populations through an innovative citizen science program

Johanna Kohler, Mauvis Gore, Rupert Ormond, Timothy Austin, Jeremy Olynik

published 09 May 2025

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Mapping Important Shark and Ray Areas (ISRAs) in the Central and South American Pacific: Existing knowledge and data needs

Emiliano García-Rodríguez, Adriana Gonzalez-Pestana, Ryan Charles, Marta D. Palacios, Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara, Joanna Alfaro-Shigueto, Cristopher G. Avalos-Castillo, Elpis J. Chávez, Mario Espinoza, Ana Hacohen-Domené, Alex R. Hearn, Felipe Galván-Magaña, James T. Ketchum, Frida Lara-Lizardi, Jorge Manuel Morales-Saldaña, Naití Morales Serrano, Paola A. Mejía-Falla, Andrés F. Navia, César R. Peñaherrera-Palma, Francisco Polanco-Vásquez, Yehudi Rodríguez-Arriatti, Luz E. Saldaña-Ruiz, Oscar Sosa-Nishizaki, Ximena Velez-Zuazo, Rima W. Jabado

published 07 May 2025

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Seasonality, long-term trends and co-occurrence of sharks in a top predator assemblage

George P. Balchin, Anina Schuller, Isabella di Stefano, Michelle Robertson, Kym Pollard, William O. H. Hughes

published 26 Feb 2025

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The ancient and helical architecture of Elasmobranchii’s spermatozoa enables progressive motility in viscous environments

Sergii Boryshpolets, Borys Dzyuba, Pablo García-Salinas, Hermes Bloomfield-Gadêlha, Victor Gallego, Anatoliy Sotnikov, Juan F. Asturiano

published 25 Feb 2025

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Underwater paleontology inside cenotes reveals the Miocene-Pliocene fish diversity in the Yucatan Peninsula, southeast Mexico

Kleyton M. Cantalice, Hugo E. Salgado-Garrido, Erick Sosa-Rodríguez, Kay Vilchis-Zapata, Gerardo González-Barba, on behalf of the Underwater Archaeological Atlas project

published 06 Feb 2025

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The physiological stress response of juvenile nurse sharks (Ginglymostoma cirratum) to catch-and-release recreational angling

Katherine C. Giesy, Jacob Jerome, Julia Wester, Evan D’Alessandro, M. Danielle McDonald, Catherine Macdonald

published 03 Jan 2025

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Fish community composition in the tropical archipelago of São Tomé and Príncipe

Guillermo Porriños, Kristian Metcalfe, Ana Nuno, Manuel da Graça, Katy Walker, Adam Dixon, Márcio Guedes, Lodney Nazaré, Albertino dos Santos, Liliana P. Colman, Jemima Dimbleby, Marta Garcia-Doce, Annette C. Broderick, Brendan J. Godley, Tiago Capela Lourenço, Luisa Madruga, Hugulay Albuquerque Maia, Berry Mulligan, Philip D. Doherty

published 01 Nov 2024

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Overfishing and climate change elevate extinction risk of endemic sharks and rays in the southwest Indian Ocean hotspot

Riley A. Pollom, Jessica Cheok, Nathan Pacoureau, Katie S. Gledhill, Peter M. Kyne, David A. Ebert, Rima W. Jabado, Katelyn B. Herman, Rhett H. Bennett, Charlene da Silva, Stela Fernando, Baraka Kuguru, Robin W. Leslie, Meaghen E. McCord, Melita Samoilys, Henning Winker, Sean T. Fennessy, Caroline M. Pollock, Cassandra L. Rigby, Nicholas K. Dulvy

published 05 Sep 2024

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Rancid rumors or Native wisdom: Evaluating the efficacy of animal fats as insect repellents attributed to historic-period Native Americans

Delaram Esmaeili, Keyla R. Salas, Hailey A. Luker, Soumi Mitra, Claudia J. Galvan, F. Omar Holguin, Sophie Whyms, Immo A. Hansen, August G. Costa

published 17 Jul 2024

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Seasonality and relative abundance within an elasmobranch assemblage near a major biogeographic divide

Grace Roskar, James W. Morley, Jeffrey A. Buckel

published 26 Jun 2024

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New insights into population structure, demographic history, and effective population size of the critically endangered blue shark Prionace glauca in the Mediterranean Sea

Violaine Dolfo, Emilie Boissin, Matthieu Lapinski, Serge Planes

published 17 Jun 2024

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Aspects of spermatogenesis in immature and mature specimens of the long-lived Greenland shark: Novelties concerning the germinal compartment’s assembly, complement of Sertoli cells and demise

Leon Mendel McClusky, Julius Nielsen, Jørgen Schou Christiansen

published 07 Jun 2024

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Genetic identification of three CITES-listed sharks using a paper-based Lab-on-a-Chip (LOC)

Guuske P. Tiktak, Alexandria Gabb, Margarita Brandt, Fernando R. Diz, Karla Bravo-Vásquez, César Peñaherrera-Palma, Jonathan Valdiviezo-Rivera, Aaron Carlisle, Louise M. Melling, Bradley Cain, David Megson, Richard Preziosi, Kirsty J. Shaw

published 04 Apr 2024

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