Publications

Mullin, K. D., McDonald, T., Wells, R. S., Balmer, B. C., Speakman, T., Sinclair, C., Zolman, E. S., Hornsby, F., McBride, S. M., Wilkinson, K. A., Schwacke, L. H. (2017). Density, abundance, survival, and ranging patterns of common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in Mississippi Sound following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. PLOS One, 12(10), e0186265. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0186265

Schloesser, R.W., & Fabrizio, M.C. (2017). Condition indices as surrogates of energy density and lipid content in juveniles of three fish species. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, 146(5), 1058-1069. https://doi.org/10.1080/00028487.2017.1324523

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

Taillefert, M., Beckler, J.S., Cathalot, C., Michalopoulos, P., Corvaisier, R., Kiriazis, N., … & Raboulille, C. (2017). Early diagenesis in the sediments of the Congo deep-sea fan dominated by massive terrigenous deposits: Part II – Iron-sulfur coupling. Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 142, 151-166. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2017.06.009

Davison, A. J., Subramaniam, K., Kerr, K., Jacob, J. M., Landrau-Giovannetti, N., Walsh, M. T., Wells, R. S., & Waltzek, T. B. (2017). Genome sequence of a gammaherpesvirus from a common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus). Genome Announcements, 5(31), e00777-17. https://doi.org/10.1128/genomeA.00777-17

Drury, C., Schopmeyer, S., Goergen, E., Bartels, E., Nedimyer, K., Johnson, M., … Lirman, D. (2017). Genomic patterns in Acropora cervicornis show extensive population structure and variable genetic diversity. Ecology and Evolution, 7(16), 6188-6200. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.3184

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

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

Wetzel, D. L., Reynolds, J. E. III, Mercurio, P., Givens, G. H., Pulster, E. L., George, J. C. (2017). Age estimation for bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) using aspartic acid racemisation with enhanced hydrolysis and derivatisation procedures. Journal of Cetacean Research and Management, 17, 9-14. https://doi.org/10.47536/jcrm.v17i1.426

El-Habashi, A., Duran, C.M., Lovko, V., Tomlinson, M.C., Stumpf, R.P., & Ahmed, S. (2017). Satellite retrievals of Karenia brevis harmful algal blooms in the West Florida shelf using neural networks and impacts of temporal variabilities. Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, 11(3), 032408. https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JRS.11.032408

Josef, N. (2017). Peri-Ocular eye patterning (POEP): More than meets the eye. Open Journal of Animal Sciences, 7, 356-363. https://doi.org/10.4236/ojas.2017.73027

Tarnecki, A.M., Burgos, F.A., Ray, C.L., & Arias, C.R. (2017). Fish intestinal microbiome: diversity and symbiosis unraveled by metagenomics. Journal of Applied Microbiology, 123(1), 2-17. https://doi.org/10.1111/jam.13415

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

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

Ewing, R. Y., Mase-Guthrie, B., McFee, W., Townsend, F., Manire, C. A., Walsh, M., Borkowski, R., Bossart, G. D., & Schaefer, A. M. (2017). Evaluation of serum for pathophysiological effects of prolonged low salinity water exposure in displaced bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus). Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 4, 80. https://doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2017.00080

Muller, E.M., Leporacci, N.M., Macartney, K.J., Shea, A.G., Crane, R.E., Hall, E.R., & Ritchie, K.B. (2017). Low pH reduces the virulence of black band disease on Orbicella faveolata. PLoS ONE, 12(6), e0178869. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0178869

Schopmeyer, S. A., Lirman, D., Bartels, E., Gilliam, D. S., Goergen, E. A., Griffin, S. P., Johnson, M. E., Lustic, C., Maxwell, K., & Walter, C. S. (2017). Regional restoration benchmarks for Acropora cervicornis. Coral Reefs, 36(4), 1047-1057. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-017-1596-3

Bejarano, A. C., Wells, R. S., & Costa, D. P. (2017). Development of a bioenergetic model for estimating energy requirements and prey biomass consumption of the bottlenose dolphin Tursiops truncatus. Ecological Modelling, 356, 162-172. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2017.05.001

Tarnecki, A.M. & Rhody, N.R. (2017). Microbiota of common snook Centropomus undecimalis larvae exhibiting high mortality. Aquaculture Research, 48(11), 5693-5698. https://doi.org/10.1111/are.13377

Pasamontes, A., Aksenov, A. A., Schivo, M., Rowles, T., Smith, C. R., Schwacke, L. H., Wells, R. S., Yeates, L., Venn-Watson, S., & Davis, C. E. (2017). Noninvasive respiratory metabolite analysis associated with clinical disease in cetaceans: A Deepwater Horizon oil spill study. Environmental Science & Technology, 51(10), 5737-5746. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.6b06482