Levels of cadmium, copper, mercury, lead and zinc in fish from the Mexican Pacific are of interest because they are marine resources of great commercial value and high human consumption. To determine ...
Decapodiformes, including cuttlefishes and squid, are ecologically diverse cephalopods widely distributed throughout the world's oceans, yet the evolutionary history of their morphological and ecologi...
The stomiiforms are a diverse radiation of ray-finned fishes found in pelagic deep-sea environments, with taxa encompassing the barbeled dragonfishes including more than 350 species placed in the fami...
Lanternfishes (Myctophidae) are one of the most abundant and species diverse orders inhabiting the mesopelagic zone. Exploitation of marine resources has recently attracted increased interest. It is t...
Cyclothone (bristlemouths) is considered the most numerically abundant genus of fish in the world and primarily inhabits the mesopelagic and bathypelagic ocean zones. Cyclothone body fossils date to t...
Urbanization is rapidly expanding along the world's coasts, transforming natural ecosystems into increasingly uniform artificial environments. Yet, the patterns and processes shaping marine biodiversi...