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Development and characterization of 17 polymorphic microsatellite markers for the reef manta ray (Mobula alfredi)
... Genotyping was conducted using genomic DNA extracted from ethanol preserved tissue biopsies col- lected non-lethally (2015–2018) from M. alfredi in waters surrounding Lady Elliot Island (− 24.11°, 152.71°) and North ...
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Microplastics on the menu: Plastics pollute Indonesian Manta Ray and Whale Shark feeding grounds
... feeding manta rays and whale sharks (see below) were chosen as study sites (Figures 1, 2, created using QGIS Development Team, 2016; Table ...1). Manta Bay (MB), within the Nusa Penida Marine Protected Area ...
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Kinematics of swimming of the manta ray: three dimensional analysis of open water maneuverability
... the manta ray (Mobula birostris), a large open-water swimmer, scaled stereo video recordings were ...of manta trajectories through three-dimensional ...
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Unique sequence of events triggers manta ray feeding frenzy in the Southern Great Barrier Reef, Australia
... Project Manta (ecology.uq.edu.au/ content/project-manta-multidisciplinary-study-of-biology-and-ecology-of-iconic-species) in a study to examine drivers of manta ray populations in the ...
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Southernmost record of the Giant Manta Ray Mobula birostris (Walbaum, 1792) in the Eastern Pacific
... Due to similarities in their body size and external appear- ance, mobulids are often confused in the field (Couturier et al., 2012). Location of the mouth is a key diagnostic characteristic between manta rays and ...
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First record of the reef manta ray, Mobula alfredi, from the eastern Pacific
... female manta ray was encountered during a scientific dive around Ulloa, a shallow dive site (~ 14 m depth) located in the northeast side of the island ...reef manta ray (using the key pro- ...
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Sympathy for the devil: a conservation strategy for devil and manta rays
... Devil Ray Mobula japanica (Müller & Henle, 1841), Chilean Devil Ray, and Bentfin Devil ...Devil Ray Mobula hypostoma (Bancroft, 1831) is found only in the western Atlantic and has an apparently ...
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Diagnosing the dangerous demography of manta rays using life history theory
... Background. The directed harvest and global trade in the gill plates of mantas, and devil rays, has led to increased fishing pressure and steep population declines in some locations. The slow life history, particularly ...
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The history and characteristics of the Mobulid Ray Fishery in the Bohol Sea, Philippines
... Philippines, Manta birostris, Manta alfredi, Mobula tarapacana, Mobula japanica, Mobula thurstoni, Mobula kuhlii, and Mobula eregoodootenkee [2 – ...of manta rays are recognized: the giant ...
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Characteristics of a previously undescribed fishery and habitat for Manta alfredi in the Philippines
... one manta ray per trip, but with a mother boat, it can unload its catch into the mother boat and resume ...the manta rays congregate on the sandy bottom on the top of the seamount which Table 1 ...
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Photographic identification and citizen science combine to reveal long distance movements of individual reef manta rays Mobula alfredi along Australia’s east coast
... Mobula alfredi occurs around the Australian coastline in warm temperate and tropical waters, spanning > 7000 km from Shark Bay, WA (25.99 S, 113.79° E), across northern Australia, to the Solitary Islands, NSW (30.21° ...
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Modelling the Effects of Mass Drug Administration on the Molecular Epidemiology of Schistosomes
... Genetic consequences of mass human chemotherapy for Schistosoma mansoni : population structure pre- and post-praziquantel treatment in Tanzania. Manta Ray Media[r] ...
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Site fidelity and movement patterns of reef manta rays (Mobula alfredi): Mobulidae using passive acoustic telemetry in northern Raja Ampat, Indonesia
... reef manta rays (Mangubhai et ...of manta ray are regular- ly encountered (Kashiwagi, 2014), including at a number of cleaning stations utilised by both spe- cies simultaneously (Authors’ ...Ampat’s ...
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The ecology of cleaning stations used by Manta alfredi in Ningaloo reef, Western Australia
... Reef, manta rays exhibit seasonal fidelity to certain areas, using many of the same cleaning stations ...including manta ray research, tourism and sport fishing, it is imperative to expand our ...
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GRAINE balloon experiment in 2015 - Precise observations of cosmic gamma rays by a high-resolution emulsion telescope
... segmented tracks at | tan θ| < 1.0 angular region in each projection were scanned by HTS from a film. First, data of eight adjoining films was extracted, then tracks penetrating the volume were eliminated. Second, the ...
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Abstract: The Cosmic-Ray Extremely Distributed Observatory (CREDO) is a project dedicated to
... Pursuing the research strategy proposed in CREDO will have large impact on astroparticle physics and possibly also on fundamental physics. If CRE are found, they could point back to the interactions at energies close to ...
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X-ray Absorption Fine Structure and X-ray Excited Optical Luminescence Studies of Gallium Nitride - Zinc Oxide Solid Solution Nanostructures
... energy conversion to optical photons depends on the nature of excitation channel (K or L shell, etc.); the sample thickness; and the nature of the material, including crystallinity, morphology, size and proximity effects ...
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Yang_et_al-2019-Advanced_Materials.pdf
... a perovskite solar cell under continuous light without gamma- rays, and then turned on the gamma-rays to find out the reason for the initial burn-in phenomenon. As shown in Figure 2, the photovoltaic parameters were ...
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Association of symmetric cosmic ray intensity decreases with CMEs, solar flares and interplanetary shocks
... cosmic ray intensity decreases which are related to Coronal mass ejections and solar flares and interplanetary ...cosmic ray intensity decreases are closely related with X-ray solar ...
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SimOptDevice: a library for virtual optical experiments
... our ray tracing and ray aim- ing procedures and of the determination of Jacobian matri- ces, needed for efficiently solving the nonlinear inverse prob- lems, was ...
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