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Explore Mote Marine Laboratory's latest marine science by searching and browsing our peer-reviewed scientific journal articles, books and chapters.

This page launched in 2024 and is continually adding new citations. Thanks for your patience as we continue to upload Mote's collection dating back to the 1930s. See all citations by year in our annual reports.

2024 Scientific Publications

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
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
Mark J Butler, Alain Duran, Colette J Feehan, Alastair R Harborne, Alwin Hykema, Joshua T Patterson, William C Sharp, Angelo Jason Spadaro, Tom Wijers, Stacey Williams (2024). Restoration of herbivory on Caribbean coral reefs are fishes urchins or crabs the solution. Frontiers in Marine Science, 11, 139028. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2024.1329028
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
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
Neil D. Cook, Gina M. Clementi, Kathryn I. Flowers, Lanya Fanovich, Jo Cable, Sarah E. Perkins, Aljoscha Wothke, Ryan S. Mohammed, 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
Márquez-Farías, J. F., Tyminski, J. P., Fischer, G. C., & Hueter, R. E. (2024). Length at life stages of the white shark Carcharodon carcharias in the western North Atlantic. Endangered Species Research, 53, 199-211. https://doi.org/10.3354/esr01300
Aly Busse, Jennifer Ribble, Keiondra Marshall, Michael P. Crosby (2024). Building a more inclusive and impactful marine STEM undergraduate research experience: The Marine Science Laboratory Alliance Center of Excellence for broadening participation. Oceanography, 36(4), 102-105. https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2024.123
Ault, G., Lembke, C., Stallings, C., Peebles, E., Ainsworth, C., Babcock, E., Chagaris, D., Boswell, K., Caffrey, J., Grubbs, D., Vander Zanden, H., Mansfield, K., Sloan, K. Wells, R., Walker, B., Braswell, A., Deitch, M., Graham, J., Rosenheim, B. (2024). Results and Impacts of the First Decade of the Florida RESTORE Act Centers of Excellence Program. Florida RESTORE Act Centers of Excellence Program, 10.
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
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
Emily R. Hall, Kimberly K. Yates, Katherine A. Hubbard, Matthew J. Garrett and Jessica D. Frankle (2024). Nutrient and carbonate chemistry patterns associated with Karenia brevis blooms in three West Florida Shelf estuaries 2020-2023. Frontiers in Marine Science, 11, 1331285. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2024.1331285

2023 Scientific Publications

Jennifer H. Toyoda, Julieta Martino, Rachel M. Speer, Idoia Meaza, Haiyan Lu, Aggie R. Williams, Alicia M. Bolt, Joseph Calvin Kouokam, Abou El-Makarim Aboueissa, and John Pierce Wise, Sr. (2023). Hexavalent Chromium Targets Securin to Drive Numerical Chromosome Instability in Human Lung Cells. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 25(1), 256. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms25010256
Hart, L. B., Dziobak, M., Wells, R. S., Berens McCabe, E., Conger, E., Curtin, T., Knight, M., Weinstein, J. (2023). Plastic, It’s What’s for Dinner: A Preliminary Comparison of Ingested Particles in Bottlenose Dolphins and Their Prey. Oceans, 4, 409-422. https://doi.org/10.3390/oceans4040028
Brendan S. Talwar, Edward J. Brooks Debra L. Abercrombie, Brenda Anderson, Mark E. Bond, Annabelle M. L. Brooks, Demian D. Chapman, Gina M. Clementi, Candace Y. A. Fields, Jim Gelsleichter, R. Dean Grubbs, Lucy A. Howey, Lance K. B. Jordan, Jeremy J. Kiszka, Ryan J. Knotek, Yannis P. Papastamatiou, Cheston T. Peterson, Eric V. C. Schneider, Oliver N. Shipley, Sean Williams, Maggie M. Winchester and Michael R. Heithaus (2023). Insights into the Relative Abundance, Life History, and Ecology of Oceanic Sharks in the Eastern Bahamas. Sustainability, 16(1), 200. https://doi.org/10.3390/su16010200
Beth Brady, Carly Sarbacker, Jake Andrew Lasala, Maria Maust-Mohl, Kristi Ashley Collom, Linda Searle, Laura J. May-Collado, Eric Angel Ramos (2023). Manatees display diel trends in acoustic activity at two microhabitats in Belize. PLOS ONE, 18(11), e0294600. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal. pone.0294600
Emily R. Hall, L. Kellie Dixon, Gary Kirkpatrick, Ari Nissanka, Brad Pederson (2023). Phytoplankton communities of the west coast of Florida – multiyear and seasonal responses to nutrient enrichment. Harmful Algae, 130, 102547. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hal.2023.102547