Extinction risk and conservation of critically endangered angel sharks in the Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea Julia M Lawson, Riley A Pollom, Cat A Gordon, Joanna Barker, Eva K M Meyers, Heike Zidowitz, Jim R Ellis, Álex Bartolí, Gabriel Morey, Sarah L Fowler, David Jiménez Alvarado, Sonja V Fordham, Rowland Sharp, Ali R Hood, Nicholas
Using baited remote underwater videos (BRUVs) to characterize chondrichthyan communities in a global biodiversity hotspot Geoffrey J. Osgood, Meaghen E. McCord, Julia K. Baum ABSTRACT: Threatened chondrichthyan diversity is high in developing countries where scarce resources, limited data, and minimal stakeholder support often render conservation efforts challenging. As such, data on many species, including many
Visual Opsin Diversity in Sharks and Rays Nathan S Hart, Trevor D Lamb, Hardip R Patel, Aaron Chuah, Riccardo C Natoli, Nicholas J Hudson, Scott C Cutmore, Wayne I L Davies, Shaun P Collin, David M Hunt ABSTRACT: The diversity of color vision systems found in extant vertebrates suggests that different evolutionary selection pressures have
DNA Analysis of Juvenile Scalloped Hammerhead Sharks Sphyrna lewini (Griffith, 1834) Reveals Multiple Breeding Populations and Signs of Adaptive Divergence in the South Pacific Amandine D. Marie, Brian L. Stockwell, Ciro Rico ABSTRACT: Shark species have undergone drastic population declines in recent decades due to overfishing and habitat destruction; thus, establishing connectivity among the populations