Spatio-temporal genetic tagging of a cosmopolitan planktivorous shark provides insight to gene flow, temporal variation and site-specific re-encounters

We thank everyone involved in sample collection for their time, expertise and dedication including: Innes Henderson and John McCann; Kevin Robinson and his team from the Cetacean Research and Rescue Unit; Michaél Cottrell, Darren Craig, Laura Kavanagh, Lucy Hunt, Nick Massett and Ian O’Connor; Andre...

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Published in:Scientific Reports
Main Authors: Lieber, Lilian, Hall, Graham, Hall, Jackie, Berrow, Simon, Johnston, Emmett, Gubili, Chrysoula, Sarginson, Jane, Francis, Malcolm, Duffy, Clinton, Wintner, Sabine P, Doherty, Philip D, Godley, Brendan J, Hawkes, Lucy A, Witt, Matthew J, Henderson, Suzanne M, de Sabata, Eleonora, Shivji, Mahmood S, Dawson, Deborah A, Sims, David W, Jones, Catherine S, Noble, Leslie R
Other Authors: University of Aberdeen.Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen.Medicine, Medical Sciences & Nutrition, University of Aberdeen.Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland (MASTS)
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2020
Subjects:
SDG 14 - Life Below Water
EFFECTIVE POPULATION-SIZE
MARINE PREDATOR MOVEMENTS
BASKING SHARKS
PAIRWISE RELATEDNESS
R-PACKAGE
CETORHINUS-MAXIMUS
FORAGING BEHAVIOR
RHINCODON-TYPUS
SOCIAL-BEHAVIOR
WHALE SHARKS
QH301 Biology
General
Scottish Funding Council
Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
NBAF723
Supplementary Data
HR09011
QH301
Cetorhinus maximus
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2164/13674
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-58086-4
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85078905588&partnerID=8YFLogxK
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Summary:We thank everyone involved in sample collection for their time, expertise and dedication including: Innes Henderson and John McCann; Kevin Robinson and his team from the Cetacean Research and Rescue Unit; Michaél Cottrell, Darren Craig, Laura Kavanagh, Lucy Hunt, Nick Massett and Ian O’Connor; Andrew Brownlow and Nick Davison from the SRUC Wildlife Unit, Inverness; Colin and Louise Speedie of Wave Action and Sealife Surveys (Tobermory); and volunteers from the Manx Basking Shark Watch. Thanks to Margaret Wallace and Giulia Denaro for technical support and Robin Waples as well as Marius Wenzel for data analysis support. JH and GH are grateful to the Manx Wildlife Trust. SB acknowledges funding for fieldwork from the Heritage Council Wildlife Grant (grant reference 16759 and R00342) and the Inishowen Development Partnership. EdeS is grateful to the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation for funding Mediterranean fieldwork. DWS was supported by a Marine Biological Association Senior Research Fellowship and acknowledges funding from the Good Gifts Catalogues for sample collection by JH and GH. LRN and CSJ gratefully acknowledge funded access to the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Biomolecular Analysis Facility at the University of Sheffield (grant reference NBAF723), as well as funds from Dept. of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) contract CR0288, and Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH). LL was supported by a studentship from the MASTS (The Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland) pooling initiative and their support is gratefully acknowledged. MASTS is funded by the Scottish Funding Council (grant reference HR09011) and contributing institutions. Peer reviewed

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