Publications

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

Ahmed, S., El-Habashi, A., Lovko, V. (2017). Neural network retrievals of phytoplankton absorption and Karenia brevis harmful algal blooms in the West Florida Shelf. Proceedings of the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE), Ocean Sensing and Monitoring IX, 101860L. http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2261848