This week featured a couple of interesting papers from friends with Hsu describing a new shark species and Eric, Peter, and Andrew describing the osteology of a cool fish. There were also a few interesting larval fish papers in the mix and a couple on copepods and phytoplankton for some papers I'm working on. The Otodontidae tooth paper (#11) was wild; great work there.

7. Choi, Hae-young, Yo-Soon Jang, Ji-na Oh, and Sung Kim. "Morphology of a Larval Hammerjaw Omosudis lowii Günther 1887 (Aulopiformes, Omosudidae) Identified by Partial Mitochondrial 12S rRNA Gene Analysis." KOREAN JOURNAL OF ICHTHYOLOGY 32, no. 4 (2020): 239-244.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Haeyoung_Choi/publication/348162964_Morphology_of_a_Larval_Hammerjaw_Omosudis_lowii_Gunther_1887_Aulopiformes_Omosudidae_Identified_by_Partial_Mitochondrial_12S_rRNA_Gene_Analysis/links/5ff178b4299bf1408868891a/Morphology-of-a-Larval-Hammerjaw-Omosudis-lowii-Guenther-1887-Aulopiformes-Omosudidae-Identified-by-Partial-Mitochondrial-12S-rRNA-Gene-Analysis.pdf

​8. Alvarez, Itziar, Leif K. Rasmuson, Trika Gerard, Raul Laiz-Carrion, Manuel Hidalgo, John T. Lamkin, Estrella Malca et al. "Influence of the Seasonal Thermocline on the Vertical Distribution of Larval Fish Assemblages Associated with Atlantic Bluefin Tuna Spawning Grounds." In Oceans, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 64-83. Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2021.
https://www.mdpi.com/2673-1924/2/1/4

9. Hsu, Hua-Hsun, Chia-Yen Lin, and Shoou-Jeng Joung. "Somniosus (Rhinoscymnus) cheni sp. nov., A New Species of Sleeper Shark (Squaliformes: Somniosidae) from Eastern Taiwan, with Aspects of Embryo Biology." Zoological Studies 59 (2020).
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7738940/

10. Lee, Eun Hye, Seo Yeol Choi, Min Ho Seo, Seok Ju Lee, and Ho Young Soh. "Effects of Temperature and pH on the Egg Production and Hatching Success of a Common Korean Copepod." Diversity 12, no. 10 (2020): 372.
https://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/12/10/372

11. Ballell, Antonio, Humberto G. Ferrón. “Biomechanical insights into the dentition of megatooth sharks (Lamniformes: Otodontidae).” Scientific Reports, 11 (2021):1232
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-80323-z

12. Harvey-Carroll, Jessica, Joshua D. Stuart, Daire Carroll, Basith Mohamed, Ibrahim Shameel, Irthisham H. Zareer, Gonzalo Araujo, Richard Rees. “The impact of injury on apparent survival of whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) in South Ari Atoll Marine Protected Area, Maldives.” Scientific Reports, 11 (2021):937
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-79101-8

13. Hilton, Eric J., Peter Konstantinidis, and Andrew Williston. "OSTEOLOGY OF PARABROTULA PLAGIOPHTHALMUS (OPHIDIIFORMES: BYTHITOIDEI: BYTHITIDAE)." Breviora 569, no. 1 (2021): 1-18.
https://bioone.org/journals/breviora/volume-569/issue-1/0006-9698-569.1.1/OSTEOLOGY-OF-PARABROTULA-PLAGIOPHTHALMUS-OPHIDIIFORMES-BYTHITOIDEI-BYTHITIDAE/10.3099/0006-9698-569.1.1.short

14. Thangaraja, Muthian, Ahmed Al-Aisry, and Lubna Al-Kharusi. "Harmful algal blooms and their impacts in the middle and outer ROPME sea area." International Journal of Oceans and Oceanography 2, no. 1 (2007): 85-98.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Thangaraja_Muthian/publication/215652964_Harmful_algal_blooms_and_their_impacts_in_the_middle_and_outer_ROPME_Sea_Area/links/0a18dde496baddb3e58ca8c5.pdf

Hi everyone! I'm trying something different this year.

It turns out that I read a lot of marine science papers. I read most of them to support the writing of manuscripts and grant proposals, projects that I'm actively working on. Quite a few are papers published by my friends, and I like to know about their research because I have smart, cool friends. Some I read because I'm bored on a random Tuesday night, and I go down some weird scientific rabbit hole on a topic I know nothing about. It's a fun life. 

There's an initiative out there - I saw it on Twitter - where people document their adventures across the landscape of the scientific literature by keeping track of all of the peer-reviewed manuscripts they read. The goal is to get through one paper a day for a year - thus #365Paper Challenge. 

I'm keeping track of all the papers that I read in 2021. I'll be posting citations and links to all of them in subsequent blog posts in this section of my little website. New posts will go up sometime on Friday. I suspect that most papers will be presented without much context, just links to the paper. For others, I may toss in a sentence or or two of my thoughts.

I'm not sure if anybody outside of me cares that much about my reading habits, but that's okay. Maybe a reader will discover an interesting manuscript. If nothing else, I'll have an easy way to go back to papers I've read, since the links will already be here on the site. 

Anyway, look for more on that soon. If you are participating in the #365Paper Challenge, let me know in the comments below or on Twitter!