Barriers in a sea of elasmobranchs: From fishing for populations to testing hypotheses in population genetics

M Hirschfeld, C Dudgeon, M Sheaves… - Global Ecology and …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Background The interplay of animal dispersal and environmental heterogeneity is
fundamental for the distribution of biodiversity on earth. In the ocean, the interaction of …

Reviewing the genetic evidence for sex-biased dispersal in elasmobranchs

NM Phillips, F Devloo-Delva, C McCall… - Reviews in Fish Biology …, 2021‏ - Springer
Dispersal in many organisms is asymmetric by sex, a pattern that is often identified through
the use of genetic tools. Sex-biased dispersal (SBD) is thought to derive from the varying …

Evidence for rapid recovery of shark populations within a coral reef marine protected area

CW Speed, M Cappo, MG Meekan - Biological Conservation, 2018‏ - Elsevier
There is limited evidence on the rate at which the shark populations of coral reefs can
rebound from over-exploitation, the baselines that might signify when recovery has occurred …

Continental‐scale acoustic telemetry and network analysis reveal new insights into stock structure

EJI Lédée, MR Heupel, MD Taylor… - Fish and …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Delineation of population structure (ie stocks) is crucial to successfully manage exploited
species and to address conservation concerns for threatened species. Fish migration and …

Step** up to genome scan allows stock differentiation in the worldwide distributed blue shark Prionace glauca

N Nikolic, F Devloo‐Delva, D Bailleul… - Molecular …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
The blue shark Prionace glauca is a top predator with one of the widest geographical
distributions of any shark species. It is classified as Critically Endangered in the …

Genomics versus mtDNA for resolving stock structure in the silky shark (Carcharhinus falciformis)

DW Kraft, EE Conklin, EW Barba, M Hutchinson… - PeerJ, 2020‏ - peerj.com
Conservation genetic approaches for elasmobranchs have focused on regions of the
mitochondrial genome or a handful of nuclear microsatellites. High-throughput sequencing …

Reef shark science–key questions and future directions

MR Heupel, YP Papastamatiou, M Espinoza… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019‏ - frontiersin.org
The occurrence of sharks on coral reefs has been well documented for decades, especially
since the advent of SCUBA diving. Despite this, it is only within the last decade that …

Evidence of fine-scale genetic structure for reef manta rays Mobula alfredi in New Caledonia

H Lassauce, CL Dudgeon, AJ Armstrong… - Endangered Species …, 2022‏ - int-res.com
Our understanding of the genetic connectivity of manta ray populations and the drivers that
shape genetic population structure is still limited. This information is crucial to identify the …

Shark research: emerging technologies and applications for the field and laboratory

JC Carrier, MR Heithaus, CA Simpfendorfer - 2018‏ - books.google.com
Over the last decade, the study of shark biology has benefited from the development,
refinement, and rapid expansion of novel techniques and advances in technology. These …

Genomic Assessment of Global Population Structure in a Highly Migratory and Habitat Versatile Apex Predator, the Tiger Shark (Galeocerdo cuvier)

AM Bernard, KA Finnegan, P Pavinski Bitar… - Journal of …, 2021‏ - academic.oup.com
Understanding the population dynamics of highly mobile, widely distributed, oceanic sharks,
many of which are overexploited, is necessary to aid their conservation management. We …