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Assessing the potential biases of ignoring sexual dimorphism and mating mechanism in using a single-sex demographic model: the mako shark
Published on 21. November 2014 Assessing the potential biases of ignoring sexual dimorphism and mating mechanism in using a single-sex demographic model: the shortfin mako shark as a case study Wen-Pei Tsai, Kwang-Ming Liu, André E. Punt, Chi-Lu Sun ABSTRACT: Most demographic models explicitly track the dynamics of a single sex. However, single-sex models may
Mitogenomics of the Speartooth Shark challenges ten years of control region sequencing
Published on 19. November 2014 Mitogenomics of the Speartooth Shark challenges ten years of control region sequencing Pierre Feutry, Peter M Kyne, Richard D Pillans, Xiao Chen, Gavin JP Naylor, Peter M Grewe ABSTRACT (provisional) : BackgroundMitochondrial DNA markers have long been used to identify population boundaries and are now a standard tool in conservation
First photographic records of the giant manta ray off eastern Australia
Published on 31. October 2014 First photographic records of the giant manta ray Manta birostris off eastern Australia Lydie I. E. Couturier, Fabrice R. A. Jaine, Tom Kashiwagi ABSTRACT: We present the first photographic evidence of the presence of the giant manta ray Manta birostris in east Australian waters. Two individuals were photographed off Montague