Climate cooling and clade competition likely drove the decline of lamniform sharks

FL Condamine, J Romieu, G Guinot - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2019 - pnas.org
Understanding heterogeneity in species richness between closely related clades is a key
research question in ecology and evolutionary biology. Multiple hypotheses have been …

Complete mitochondrial DNA genome of nine species of sharks and rays and their phylogenetic placement among modern elasmobranchs

V Kousteni, S Mazzoleni, K Vasileiadou, M Rovatsos - Genes, 2021 - mdpi.com
Chondrichthyes occupy a key position in the phylogeny of vertebrates. The complete
sequence of the mitochondrial genome (mitogenome) of four species of sharks and five …

The biology and ecology of the Pacific sharpnose shark Rhizoprionodon longurio

JH Gayford, DA Whitehead - Ecology and Evolution, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Amidst global declines in elasmobranch populations resulting predominantly from
overfishing, the need to gather data regarding shark ecology is greater than ever. Many …

Combining palaeontological and neontological data shows a delayed diversification burst of carcharhiniform sharks likely mediated by environmental change

B Brée, FL Condamine, G Guinot - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Estimating deep-time species-level diversification processes remains challenging. Both the
fossil record and molecular phylogenies allow the estimation of speciation and extinction …

Evolutionary pathways toward gigantism in sharks and rays

C Pimiento, JL Cantalapiedra, K Shimada, DJ Field… - …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Through elasmobranch (sharks and rays) evolutionary history, gigantism evolved multiple
times in phylogenetically distant species, some of which are now extinct. Interestingly, the …

Multiplex real-time PCR assay to detect illegal trade of CITES-listed shark species

D Cardeñosa, J Quinlan, KH Shea, DD Chapman - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and
Flora (CITES) is a multilateral environmental agreement to ensure that the international …

A synoptic review of the cartilaginous fishes (Chondrichthyes: Holocephali, Elasmobranchii) from the Upper Jurassic Konservat-Lagerstätten of Southern Germany …

E Villalobos-Segura, S Stumpf, J Türtscher… - Diversity, 2023 - mdpi.com
The Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous (164–100 Ma) represents one of the main transitional
periods in life history. Recent studies unveiled a complex scenario in which abiotic and …

Principal component and discriminant analyses as powerful tools to support taxonomic identification and their use for functional and phylogenetic signal detection of …

G Marramà, J Kriwet - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Identifying isolated teeth of fossil selachians only based on qualitative characters is
sometimes hindered by similarity in their morphology, resulting often in heated taxonomic …

Squalomix: shark and ray genome analysis consortium and its data sharing platform

O Nishimura, J Rozewicki, K Yamaguchi… - …, 2022 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The taxon Elasmobranchii (sharks and rays) contains one of the long-established
evolutionary lineages of vertebrates with a tantalizing collection of species occupying critical …

Exceptional preservation reveals gastrointestinal anatomy and evolution in early actinopterygian fishes

T Argyriou, M Clauss, EE Maxwell, H Furrer… - Scientific Reports, 2016 - nature.com
Current knowledge about the evolutionary morphology of the vertebrate gastrointestinal tract
(GIT) is hindered by the low preservation potential of soft tissues in fossils. Exceptionally …