Published online on 21. December 2016 Technical mitigation measures for sharks and rays in fisheries for tuna and tuna-like species: turning possibility into reality François Poisson, Francisco Abascal Crespo, Jim R. Ellis, Pierre Chavance, Bach Pascal, Miguel. N. Santos, Bernard Séret, Maria Korta, Rui Coelho, Javier Ariz, Hilario Murua ABSTRACT: Tuna fisheries have been identified
Published online on 09 December 2016 Role of the preferred habitat availability for small shark (Mustelus schmitti) on the interannual variation of abundance in a large Southwest Atlantic Coastal System (El Rincón, 39°–41°S) A.J. Jaureguizar, R. Wiff, M. Luz Clara ABSTRACT: Description of habitat preferences in marine fishes is important in order to understand their
Published on 09. December 2016 First report of the whitesaddled catshark Scyliorhinus hesperius (Springer 1966) in Guatemala’s Caribbean Sea Ana Hacohen-Domené, Francisco Polanco-Vásquez, Rachel T. Graham ABSTRACT: Background The present study represents the first record of Scyliorhinus hesperius in Guatemala’s Caribbean Sea. Methods Five male whitesaddled catsharks, S. hesperius, were captured in 200 m deep
Published on 08. December 2016 Dietary Keratan Sulfate from Shark Cartilage Modulates Gut Microbiota and Increases the Abundance of Lactobacillus spp. Qingsen Shang, Qinying Li, Meifang Zhang, Guanrui Song, Jingjing Shi, Hao Jiang, Chao Cai, Jiejie Hao, Guoyun Li, Guangli Yu ABSTRACT: Keratan sulfate (KS) represents an important family of glycosaminoglycans that are critical in
Published on 02. December 2016 Molecular diversity and distribution of eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean dogfishes Squalus highlight taxonomic issues in the genus Ana Veríssimo, Diana Zaera-Perez, Rob Leslie, Samuel P. Iglésias, Bernard Séret, Panagiotis Grigoriou, Aspasia Sterioti, Chrysoula Gubili, Claudio Barría, Clinton Duffy, Sebastián Hernández, Ioannis E. Batjakas, Andrew M. Griffiths ABSTRACT: The alpha taxonomy