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SUBMITTER: Hancock TL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6892823 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hancock Taylor L TL Poulakis Gregg R GR Scharer Rachel M RM Tolley S Gregory SG Urakawa Hidetoshi H
Scientific reports 20191204 1
The foundation of food web analysis is a solid understanding of predator-prey associations. Traditional dietary studies of fishes have been by stomach content analysis. However, these methods are not applicable to Critically Endangered species such as the smalltooth sawfish (Pristis pectinata). Previous research using the combination of stable isotope signatures from fin clips and 18S rRNA gene sequencing of fecal samples identified the smalltooth sawfish as piscivorous at low taxonomic resoluti ...[more]