The seven species of sea turtles occupy a diversity of niches, and have a history tracing
back over 100 million years, yet all share basic life‐history features, including exceptional …

We developed a set of universal PCR primers (MiFish-U/E) for metabarcoding
environmental DNA (eDNA) from fishes. Primers were designed using aligned whole …

Large pelagic vertebrates pose special conservation challenges because their movements
generally exceed the boundaries of any single jurisdiction. To assess the population …

Migrations of large pelagic fishes across the Pacific are usually inferred from tagging or
genetic studies. Even though these techniques have improved over time, they still fail to …

Comparative phylogeography has revealed remarkable patterns of concordance in the
maternal phylogenies of many species. The phylogeography and historical demography of …

Most animal species show detectable genetic differentiation between populations, but the
extent and pattern of this differentiation varies considerably between species. Some show …

The sandbar shark, Carcharhinus plumbeus, is a large, cosmopolitan, coastal species.
Females are thought to show philopatry to nursery grounds while males potentially migrate …

Background Yellowfin and skipjack tuna are globally distributed in the world's tropical and
sub-tropical oceans. Since little, if any, migration of these fishes occurs between the Atlantic …

We used 320 young-of-the-year (YOY) specimens of the highly migratory and overfished
Atlantic bluefin tuna, Thunnus thynnus, Linnaeus 1758, to evaluate the hypothesis that …

Billfishes are genetically and morphologically distinct enough from scombroids to merit
placement in a separate suborder, Xiphioidei. Two extant families are usually recognized …