Publications

Smith, C. R., Rowles, T. K., Hart, L. B., Townsend, F. I., Wells, R. S., Zolman, E. S., Balmer, B. C., Quigley, B., Ivancic, M., McKercher, W., Tumlin, M. C., Mullin, K. D., Adams, J. D., Wu, Q., McFee, W., Collier, T. K., & Schwacke, L. H. (2017). Slow recovery of the Barataria Bay dolphin health following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill (2013-2014), with evidence of persistent lung disease and impaired stress response. Endangered Species Research, 33, 127-142. https://doi.org/10.3354/esr00778

Sayigh, L.S., Wells, R.S., & Janik, V.M. (2017). What’s in a voice? Dolphins do not use voice cues for individual recognition. Animal Cognition, 20(6), 1067-1079. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-017-1123-5

Ronje, E. I., Barry, K. P., Sinclair, C., Grace, M. A., Barros, N., Allen, J., Balmer, B., Panike, A., Toms, C., Mullin, K. D., & Wells, R. S. (2017). A common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) prey handling technique for marine catfish (Ariidae) in the northern Gulf of Mexico. PLOS ONE, 12(7), e0181179. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0181179

Gaspard, J.C., Bauer, G.B., Mann, D.A., Boerner, K., Denum, L., Frances, C., & Reep, R.L. (2017). Detection of hydrodynamic stimuli by the postcranial body of Florida manatees (Trichechus manatus latirostris). Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 203(2), 111-120. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00359-016-1142-8

Suprenand, P.M., & Ainsworth, C.H. (2017). Trophodynamic effects of climate change-induced alterations to primary production along the western Antarctic Peninsula. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 569, 37-54. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps12100

Hornsby, F. E., McDonald, T. L., Balmer, B. C., Speakman, T. R., Mullin, K. D., Rosel, P. E., Wells, R. S., Telander, A. C., Marcy, P. W., Klaphake, K. C., & Schwacke, L. H. (2017). Using salinity to identify common bottlenose dolphin habitat in Barataria Bay, Louisiana, USA. Endangered Species Research, 33, 181-192. https://doi.org/10.3354/esr00807

Ladd, M.C., Shantz, A.A., Bartels, E., & Burkepile, D.E. (2017). Thermal stress reveals a genotype-specific tradeoff between growth and tissue loss in restored Acropora cervicornis. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 572, 129-139. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps12169

Ferreira, L. C., Thums, M., Heithaus, M. R., Barnett, A., Abrantes, K. G., Holmes, B. J., Zamora, L. M., Frisch, A. J., Pepperell, J. G., Burkholder, D., Vaudo, J., Nowicki, R., Meeuwig, J., & Meekan, M. G. (2017). The trophic role of a large marine predator, the tiger shark Galeocerdo cuvier. Scientific Reports, 7, 7641. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-07751-2

Ritchie, K.B., Schwarz, M., Mueller, J., Lapacek, V., Merselis, D., Walsh, C.J., & Luer, C.A. (2017). Survey of antibiotic-producing bacteria associated with the epidermal mucus layers of rays and skates. Frontiers in Microbiology, 8, 1050. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2017.01050

Whitney, N.M., White, C.F., Anderson, P.A., Hueter, R.E., & Skomal, G.B. (2017). The physiological stress response, postrelease behavior, and mortality of blacktip sharks (Carcharhinus limbatus) caught on circle and J-hooks in the Florida recreational fishery. Fishery Bulletin, 115(4), 532-543. https://doi.org/10.7755/FB.115.4.9

Pulster, E.L., Main, K., Wetzel, D., & Murawski, S. (2017). Species-specific metabolism of naphthalene and phenanthrene in three species of marine teleosts exposed to Deepwater Horizon crude oil. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 36(11), 3168-3176. https://doi.org/10.1002/etc.3898

Main, K.L., Resley, M.J., and Rhody, N.R. (2017). Successful techniques for Pacific black snook broodstock management and captive spawning. Hatcheryfeed Magazine, 5(2), 13-17. https://hatcheryfm.com/magazine/hatcheryfeed-vol-5-issue-2-2017/

Cremer, M.J., Holz, A.C., Bordino, P., Wells, R.S., & Simőes-Lopes, P.C. (2017). Social sounds produced by franciscana dolphins, Pontoporia blainvillei (Cetartiodactyla, Pontoporiidae). Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 141(3), 2047-2054. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4978437

Perrault, J. R., Stacy, N. I., Lehner, A. F., Mott, C. R., Hirsch, S., Gorham, J. C., Buchweitz, J. P., Bresette, M. J., & Walsh, C. J. (2017). Potential effects of brevetoxins and toxic elements on various health variables in Kemp’s ridley (Lepidochelys kempii) and green (Chelonia mydas) sea turtles after a red tide event bloom. Science of the Total Environment, 605, 967-979. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.06.149

Grier, H.J., Neidig, C.L., Quagio-Grassiotto, I. (2017). Development and fate of the postovulatory follicle complex, postovulatory follicle, and observations on folliculogenesis and oocyte atresia in ovulated common snook, Centropomus undecimalis. Journal of Morphology, 278(4), 547–562. https://doi.org/10.1002/jmor.20652

Kirkpatrick, G. J., Millie, D. F., Moline, M. A., Lohrenz, S. E., & Schofield, O. M. (2011). Automated, in-water determination of colored dissolved organic material and phytoplankton community structure using the optical phytoplankton discriminator. Proceedings of the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE), 8030. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.884250

Luer, C.A., Blum, P.C., Gilbert, P. W. (1990). Rate of Tooth Replacement in the Nurse Shark, Ginglymostoma cirratum. Copeia, 1990(1), 182-191. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1445834

Millie, D. F., Kirkpatrick, G. J., Vinyard, B. T. (1995). Relating photosynthetic pigments and in vivo optical density spectra to irradiance for the Florida red-tide dinoflagellate Gymnodinium breve. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 120, 65-75. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps120065

Clark, Eugenie (1972). The Red Sea Garden Eel. Underwater Naturalist, 7(1).

Clark, E., Ben-Tuvia, A. (1973). Red Sea fishes of the family Branchiostegidae with a description of a new genus and species Asymmetrurus oreni. Contributions to the Knowledge of the Red Sea, 51.