Simple biopsy modification to collect muscle samples from free-swimming sharks
Authors:
- Lauren MeyerLMLauren Meyer
- Andrew FoxAFAndrew Fox
- Charlie HuveneersCHCharlie Huveneers
- 1 December 2018
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier in Biological Conservation
- Vol. 228, 142-147
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Funding Information
- Save Our Seas Foundation (RPF14/553)
- Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment
- Oceania Chondrichthyan Society and Passions of Paradise
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