Special Issue: Age and Growth of Chondrichthyan Fishes: New Methods, Techniques and Analysis

1. Acknowledgment of referees

2. Age and growth studies of chondrichthyan fishes: the need for consistency in terminology, verification, validation, and growth function fitting
Gregor M. Cailliet, Wade D. Smith, Henry F. Mollet, Kenneth J. Goldman

3. Age and growth of the sandbar shark, Carcharhinus plumbeus, in Hawaiian waters through vertebral analysis
Jason G. Romine, R. Dean Grubbs, John A. Musick

4. A re-examination of the age and growth of sand tiger sharks, Carcharias taurus, in the western North Atlantic: the importance of ageing protocols and use of multiple back-calculation techniques
Kenneth J. Goldman, Steven Branstetter, John A. Musick

5. Comparing external and internal dorsal-spine bands to interpret the age and growth of the giant lantern shark, Etmopterus baxteri (Squaliformes: Etmopteridae)
Sarah B. Irvine, John D. Stevens, Laurie J. B. Laurenson

6. The potential use of caudal thorns as a non-invasive ageing structure in the thorny skate (Amblyraja radiata Donovan, 1808)
Michael J. Gallagher, Marianne J. Green, Conor P. Nolan

7. Terminology for the ageing of chondrichthyan fish using dorsal-fin spines
Maurice W. Clarke, Sarah B. Irvine

8. Do differences in life history exist for blacktip sharks, Carcharhinus limbatus, from the United States South Atlantic Bight and Eastern Gulf of Mexico?
John K. Carlson, James R. Sulikowski, Ivy E. Baremore

9. Evidence of two-phase growth in elasmobranchs
Miguel Araya, Luis A. Cubillos

10. Two Bayesian methods for estimating parameters of the von Bertalanffy growth equation
Kate I. Siegfried, Bruno Sansó

11. A critical appraisal of marginal increment analysis for assessing temporal periodicity in band formation among tropical sharks
Rosângela Lessa, Francisco Marcante Santana, Paulo Duarte-Neto

12. Elemental signatures in the vertebral cartilage of the round stingray, Urobatis halleri, from Seal Beach, California
Loraine F. Hale, John V. Dudgeon, Andrew Z. Mason, Christopher G. Lowe

13. Bomb dating and age validation using the spines of spiny dogfish (Squalus acanthias)
Steven E. Campana, Cynthia Jones, Gordon A. McFarlane, Sigmund Myklevoll

14. Investigations of ?14C, d 13C, and d 15N in vertebrae of white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) from the eastern North Pacific Ocean
Lisa A. Kerr, Allen H. Andrews, Gregor M. Cailliet, Thomas A. Brown, Kenneth H. Coale

15. Application of bomb radiocarbon chronologies to shortfin mako (Isurus oxyrinchus) age validation
Daniele Ardizzone, Gregor M. Cailliet, Lisa J. Natanson, Allen H. Andrews, Lisa A. Kerr, Thomas A. Brown

16. Validated age and growth estimates for the shortfin mako, Isurus oxyrinchus, in the North Atlantic Ocean
Lisa J. Natanson, Nancy E. Kohler, Daniele Ardizzone, Gregor M. Cailliet, Sabine P. Wintner, Henry F. Mollet

17. Validated age and growth of the sandbar shark, Carcharhinus plumbeus (Nardo 1827) in the waters off Western Australia
Rory B. McAuley, Colin A. Simpfendorfer, Glenn A. Hyndes, Rick R. Allison, Justin A. Chidlow, Stephen J. Newman, Rod C. J. Lenanton

18. Analysis of variability in vertebral morphology and growth ring counts in two Carcharhinid sharks
Andrew N. Piercy, Travis S. Ford, Laura M. Levy, Franklin F. Snelson

19. Morphometric minefields—towards a measurement standard for chondrichthyan fishes
Malcolm P. Francis

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