Differences in relative heart mass among deep-sea and coastal sharks with increasing depth

ME Larsen, DC Abel, DP Crane, RD Grubbs - Marine biology, 2020 - Springer
… -sea sharks have lower metabolic capacities compared to theirsharks have a smaller relative
heart size compared to their … We were able to conclude that deep-sea sharks likely have a …

Maternal investment, ecological lifestyle, and brain evolution in sharks and rays

CG Mull, KE Yopak, NK Dulvy - The American Naturalist, 2020 - journals.uchicago.edu
… 2) the relative importance of the total brain and individual brain regions for explaining each
axis, and (3) pairwise covariation between brain regions according to the sign of their loading …

New insights into the reproductive biology of the tiger shark Galeocerdo cuvier and no detection of polyandry in Reunion Island, western Indian Ocean

A Pirog, H Magalon, T Poirout… - Marine and Freshwater …, 2020 - CSIRO Publishing
… In this study, biological and reproductive traits from 150 tiger sharks G. cuvier captured in …
We acknowledge their continuing connection to their culture, their contribution to our shared …

Physiological markers suggest energetic and nutritional adjustments in male sharks linked to reproduction

B S. Rangel, N Hammerschlag, JA Sulikowski… - Oecologia, 2021 - Springer
… the mating period of both nurse and blacktip sharks. Taken together, our findings suggest
that nurse and blacktip sharks differ in their energetic strategy to support reproduction, however…

Ecological redundancy between coral reef sharks and predatory teleosts

SC Barley, TD Clark, JJ Meeuwig - Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, 2020 - Springer
… Moreover, sharks may be able to consume proportionally larger prey as they … their gapes
to ever-smaller prey as a proportion of their body size. Our results also suggest that reef sharks

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

CG Mull, N Pacoureau, SA Pardo, LS Ruiz… - Scientific Data, 2022 - nature.com
… Advances in our understanding of the ecological importance of sharks and their relatives.
In: Biology of sharks and their relatives, 3 rd Ed. Carrier, JC, Simpfendorfer, CA, Heithaus, MR, …

The fossil record of extant elasmobranchs

A Paillard, K Shimada, C Pimiento - Journal of Fish Biology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Sharks and their relatives (Elasmobranchii) are highly threatened with extinction due to …
currently living in our oceans by collecting their oldest records and quantifying first appearance …

Is multiple paternity in elasmobranchs a plesiomorphic characteristic?

F Lamarca, PH Carvalho, A Vilasboa… - Environmental Biology …, 2020 - Springer
… The authors would like thank the BioTecPesca laboratory (UFRJ) team for their help in
the development of this study. Thanks are also due to CNPq (FL, MV) and FAPERJ (MV) for …

… Shifts in Body Morphology of Demersal Sharks' Species (Order: Squaliformes) Inhabiting the Western-Central Mediterranean Sea, with Implications for Their Bio …

A Bellodi, A Mulas, L Daniel, A Cau, C Porcu… - Biology, 2023 - mdpi.com
… large individuals in every species based on their morphology. A Similarity Percentage analysis
… these sharks play in their environment, thus providing new essential information for their

Pua ka wiliwili, nanahu ka manō: Understanding Sharks in Hawaiian Culture

N Puniwai - Human Biology, 2020 - BioOne
… This article focuses on sharks, generally termed manō in Hawaiian, because of their importance
in Hawaiian culture and the availability of historical references to manō (Beckwith 1917) …