intervention tailoring; any intervention modifications throughout the study; and details of intervention fidelity assessment, monitoring, and level achieved. The TIDieR checklist will help improve the quality of intervention reporting more if it is used not only by study authors but also by journal editors, peer reviewers, ethics committees, and funding agencies. A copy of the checklist is avai...

Representatives of Subclass Elasmobranchii are cartilaginous fish whose members include sharks, skates, and rays. Because of their unique phylogenetic position of being the most primitive group of vertebrates to possess all the components necessary for an adaptive immune system, the immune regulatory compounds they possess may represent the earliest evolutionary forms of novel compounds with th...

Serum corticosterone was previously studied in numerous elasmobranch fishes (sharks, skates and rays), but the role of this steroid, widespread throughout many taxa, has yet to be defined. The goal of this study was to test whether corticosterone varied in response to acute and chronic capture stress, and across the reproductive cycle in the bonnethead shark, Sphyrna tiburo, and Atlantic stingr...