Publications

González-Gómez, R., Avendaño, O., Barriga-Sosa, I. A., Bastos, P., Caamal-Monsreal, C., Castillo-Estrada, G., Cedillo-Robles, C., Daw, A., Díaz-Santana-Iturrios, M., Galindo-Cortes, G., Guerrero-Kommritz, J., Haimovici, M., Ibáñez, C. M., Jiménez-Badillo, M. L., Larson, P., Leite, T., Lima, F. D., Markaida, U., Meiners-Mandujano, C., Morillo-Velarde, P. S., Ortiz, N., Pardo-Gandarillas, M. C., Pliego-Cárdenas, R., Ré, M. E., Siegel, B., Urbano, B., Vidal, E. A. G., Gleadall, I. G. (2024). Biodiversity of octopuses in the Americas. Marine Biology, 171(189). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-024-04489-0

Sophia MacVittie, Erin Cuyler, Brandon J. Rose, Emily R. Hall, Cory J. Crediet (2024). Holobiont-level responses to elevated temperature and reduced pH in Aiptasia. Bulletin of Marine Science, 100. https://doi.org/10.5343/bms.2024.0041

Conger, E., Dziobak, M., Berens McCabe, E., Curtain, T., Gaur, A., Wells, R., Weinstein, J., Hart, L. (2024). An Analysis of Suspected Microplastics in the Muscle and Gastrointestinal Tissues of Fish from Sarasota Bay, FL: Exposure and Implications for Apex Predators and Seafood Consumers. Environments, 11(185). https://doi.org/10.3390/environments11090185

Vivier, F., Andres, C., Gonzalvo, J., Fertitta, K., van Aswegen, M., Foroughirad, V., Mann, J., McEntee, M., Wells, R. S., Bejder, L. (2024). Inferring dolphin population status: using unoccupied aerial systems to quantify age-structure. Animal Conservation. https://doi.org/10.1111/acv.12978

Well, R.S., Fahlman, A. (2024). Human impacts on dolphins: Physiological effects and conservation.. The Physiology of dolphins, Pgs 267-284. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-90516-9.00007-5

Roth, J.S., Wilson, P.C., Steele, L., Reynolds, L.K. (2024). Intraspecific variation in seagrass anti-herbivore defenses along a natural gradient in phosphorus availability impacts herbivore feeding decisions. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 727, 111. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps14486

J. Goetze, M. Heithaus, M. MacNeil, et al (2024). Directed conservation of the world’s reef sharks and rays. Nature Ecology & Evolution , 8, 1118–1128. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-024-02386-9

Neil D. Cook, Gina M. Clementi, Kathryn I. Flowers, Lanya Fanovich, Jo Cable, Sarah E. Perkins, Aljoscha Wothke, Ryan S. Mohammed and Demian D. Chapman (2024). Elasmobranch diversity around the southern Caribbean island of Tobago: opportunities for conservation in a regional trade hub. Journal of the marine biological association of the united kingdom, 104(e8), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025315423000917

Raimundo Espinoza, Demian Chapman, Jack Morris, Sara N. Schoen, Valerie Hagan , Robert Hueter, Martin Soto, Rodolfo Abrams, Paola Sotomayor (2024). Characteristics and species composition of a small-scale shark fishery in Puerto Rico: Jurisdictional issues enable legal landings of prohibited and endangered species. Fisheries Research , 272, 106936. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2023.106936

Kenneth Hoadley, Sean Lowry, Audrey McQuagge, Shannon Dalessandi, Grant Lockridge, Sibelle O'Donnell, Holland Elder, Maria Ruggeri, Eleftherios Karabelas, Courtney Klepac, Carly Kenkel, Erinn Muller (2024). Bio-optical signatures of in situ photosymbionts predict bleaching severity prior to thermal stress in the Caribbean coral species Acropora palmata. Coral Reefs, 43, 151-164. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-023-02458-5

C. N. Klepac, C. G. Petrik, E. Karabelas, J. Owens, E. R. Hall & E. M. Muller (2024). Assessing acute thermal assays as a rapid screening tool for coral restoration. Scientific Reports, 14, 1898. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-51944-5

Jenna Dilworth, Wyatt Million, Maria Ruggeri, Emily Hall, Ashley Dungan, Erinn Muller, Carly Kenkel (2024). Synergistic response to climate stressors in coral is associated with genotypic variation in baseline expression. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 291(2019). https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.2447

Rachel Tennant, Beth Brady, Kim Love, Eric Ramos, Ryan Schloesser (2024). Persistent long-term habitat use by Florida manatees at Fort Pierce, Florida from 1997 to 2020. PLOS ONE, 19(3), e0297636. https:// doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0297636

Carole Neidig, Max Lee, Genevieve Patrick, Ryan Schloesser (2024). Employing an innovative underwater camera to improve electronic monitoring in the commercial Gulf of Mexico reef fish fishery. PLOS ONE, 19(3), e0298588. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0298588

Redding OT, Castorani MCN, Lasala JA (2024). The effects of dune plant roots on loggerhead turtle Caretta caretta nest success. Ecology and Evolution, 11(4). https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.11207

Doupnik CA, Luer CA, Walsh CJ, Restivo J, Brick J (2024). Bioactive properties of venoms isolated from whiptail stingrays and the search for molecular mechanisms and targets. Pharmaceuticals, 17(4), 488. https://doi.org/10.3390/ph17040488

Benjamin Young, Olivia Williamson, Nicholas Kron, Natalia Andrade Rodriguez, Lys Isma, Nicholas MacKnight, Erinn Muller, Stephanie Rosales, Stephanie Sirotzke, Nikki Traylor-Knowles, Sara Williams, Michael Studivan (2024). Annotated genome and transcriptome of the endangered Caribbean mountainous star coral (Orbicella faveolata) using PacBio long-read sequencing. BMC Genomics, 25(226), 226. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-024-10092-w

Moore, M. J., Lanagan, T. M., Wells, R. S., Kapit, J., Barleycorn, A. A., Allen, J. B., Baird, R. W., Braun, C. D., Skomal, G. B., Thorrold, S. R. (2024). Development of single-pin, un-barbed, pole-tagging of free-swimming dolphins and sharks with satellite-linked transmitters. Animal Biotelemetry, 12(6). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40317-024-00364-3

Barratclough, A., Takeshita, R., Thomas, L., Photopoulou, T., Pirotta, E., Rosel, P. E., Wilcox Talbot, L. A., Vollmer, N. L., Wells, R., Smith, C. R., Rowles, T. K., Horvath, S., Schwacke, L. (2024). Estimating age and investigating epigenetic changes related to health across multiple bottlenose dolphin populations. Biological Conservation, 293, 110570. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110570

Lu, Haiyan; Toyoda, Jennifer H.; Wise, Sandra S.; Browning, Cynthia L.; Speer, Rachel M.; Croom-Perez, Tayler J.; Bolt, Alicia; Meaza, Idoia; Wise, Sr., John Pierce (2024). A whale of a tale: whale cells evade the driving mechanism for hexavalent chromium-induced chromosome instability. Toxicological Sciences, 199(1), 49-62. https://doi.org/10.1093/toxsci/kfae030