September, 2022

Screening and Characterization of Shark-Derived VNARs against SARS-CoV-2 Spike RBD Protein

Screening and Characterization of Shark-Derived VNARs against SARS-CoV-2 Spike RBD Protein

Screening and Characterization of Shark-Derived VNARs against SARS-CoV-2 Spike RBD Protein Chen, Yu-Lei, Jin-Jin Lin, Huan Ma, Ning Zhong, Xin-Xin Xie, Yunru Yang, Peiyi Zheng, Ling-Jing Zhang, Tengchuan Jin, Min-Jie Cao ABSTRACT: The receptor-binding domain (RBD) of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein is the major target for antibody therapeutics. Shark-derived variable domains of new antigen receptors

Sharks Provide Evidence for a Highly Complex TNFSF Repertoire in the Jawed Vertebrate Ancestor

Sharks Provide Evidence for a Highly Complex TNFSF Repertoire in the Jawed Vertebrate Ancestor

Sharks Provide Evidence for a Highly Complex TNFSF Repertoire in the Jawed Vertebrate Ancestor Anthony K. Redmond, Rita Pettinello, Fiona K. Bakke, Helen Dooley ABSTRACT: Cytokines of the TNF superfamily (TNFSF) control many immunological processes and are implicated in the etiology of many immune disorders and diseases. Despite their obvious biological importance, the TNFSF repertoires

South Africa: Plett beaches closed after shark incident

South Africa: Plett beaches closed after shark incident

News Release The National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) 25. September 2022 — — — — — — The NSRI and the Bitou Municipality appeal to the public to be cautious along the Plettenberg Bay and Southern Cape coastline. Beaches have been closed in Plettenberg Bay by Bitou Municipality. This sadly follows a fatal shark incident

Growth, reproduction, and age at maturity of Lessa’s butterfly ray

Growth, reproduction, and age at maturity of Lessa’s butterfly ray

Growth, reproduction, and age at maturity of Lessa’s butterfly ray Gymnura lessae in the northern Gulf of Mexico Matthew B. Jargowsky, Bryan L. Huerta-Beltrán, Matthew J. Ajemian, Michael E. Colvin, J. Marcus Drymon ABSTRACT: In the northern Gulf of Mexico, batoids are caught as bycatch in the shrimp trawl fishery and targeted by recreational bowfishers.

Placoid scales in bioluminescent sharks

Placoid scales in bioluminescent sharks

Placoid scales in bioluminescent sharks: Scaling their evolution using morphology and elemental composition Alexia Lourtie, Laurent Duchatelet, Nicolas Straube, Nathan Puozzo, Mark A. Grace, Gavin J. P. Naylor, Jérôme Delroisse ABSTRACT: Elasmobranchs are characterised by the presence of placoid scales on their skin. These scales, structurally homologous to gnathostome teeth, are thought to have various

Video: Sharks – UN FAO 7th Expert Panel for the assessment of proposals to amend CITES appendices

Putting sharks on the map: A global standard for improving shark area-based conservation

Putting sharks on the map: A global standard for improving shark area-based conservation

Putting sharks on the map: A global standard for improving shark area-based conservation Ciaran A. Hyde, Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara, Lynn Sorrentino, Charlotte Boyd, Brittany Finucci, Sarah L. Fowler, Peter M. Kyne, Guido Leurs, Colin A. Simpfendorfer, Michael J. Tetley, Freya Womersley, Rima W. Jabado ABSTRACT: Area-based conservation is essential to safeguard declining biodiversity. Several

Sharkipedia: a curated open access database of shark and ray life history traits and abundance time-series

Sharkipedia: a curated open access database of shark and ray life history traits and abundance time-series

Sharkipedia: a curated open access database of shark and ray life history traits and abundance time-series Christopher G Mull, Nathan Pacoureau, Sebastián A Pardo, Luz Saldaña Ruiz, Emiliano García-Rodríguez, Brittany Finucci, Max Haack, Alastair Harry, Aaron B Judah, Wade VanderWright, Jamie S Yin, Holly K Kindsvater, Nicholas K Dulvy ABSTRACT: A curated database of shark

Le Parisien: Great white shark filmed off Camargue, France

Chemical and microbial changes of stingray fish (Trygon sephen) during soaking in salt solution before smoking process

Chemical and microbial changes of stingray fish (Trygon sephen) during soaking in salt solution before smoking process

Chemical and microbial changes of stingray fish (Trygon sephen) during soaking in salt solution before smoking process Suprapto et al. ABSTRACT: The salting process at a fisherman’s level is still traditional and does not yet have a standard for salt concentration and soaking time, thus affecting the freshness and quality of fish for further processing.

Elasmobranchs from Indonesian Waters: Feeding Ecology and Trypanorhynch Cestode Fauna Composition to Support Efforts in Shark and Ray Conservation

Elasmobranchs from Indonesian Waters: Feeding Ecology and Trypanorhynch Cestode Fauna Composition to Support Efforts in Shark and Ray Conservation

Elasmobranchs from Indonesian Waters: Feeding Ecology and Trypanorhynch Cestode Fauna Composition to Support Efforts in Shark and Ray Conservation Kleinertz, S., Yulianto, I., Kurschat, C. et al. ABSTRACT: PurposeThe stomachs and spiral valves of sharks and rays were examined for their trypanorhynch (Cestoda) parasite fauna and dietary items to infer feeding ecology. In Indonesia, sharks

Female wound records suggest mating periods for the Caribbean reef shark at the Fernando de Noronha Archipelago

Female wound records suggest mating periods for the Caribbean reef shark at the Fernando de Noronha Archipelago

Female wound records suggest mating periods for the Caribbean reef shark at an insular marine protected area from the Equatorial Atlantic Ocean Bianca S Rangel, André S Afonso, Ricardo Garla ABSTRACT: Despite being one of the most abundant, economically-significant, reef-associated shark species, little is known about the reproductive aspects of the Caribbean reef shark (Carcharhinus

Video: Two whale sharks beached in Indonesia

First photographic evidence of oceanic manta rays (Mobula birostris) at two locations in the Fiji islands

First photographic evidence of oceanic manta rays (Mobula birostris) at two locations in the Fiji islands

First photographic evidence of oceanic manta rays (Mobula birostris) at two locations in the Fiji islands Luke Gordon​, Tom Vierus ABSTRACT: Until the revision of the genus Manta in 2009, when a second manta species (Manta alfredi) was resurrected based on morphological and meristic data, all available records in Fijian literature were recorded as Manta

Canadian Shark Attack Registry

Canadian Shark Attack Registry

Gallant, Jeffrey J. (2022). Canadian Shark Attack Registry (1st ed.). St. Lawrence Shark Observatory. 47 p PDF-DOWNLOAD