Sarah Mesnick

Title(s)	Adjunct Professor, Scripps Institution of Oceanography Department
School	Marine Sciences
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Brakes P, Dall SRX, Aplin LM, Bearhop S, Carroll EL, Ciucci P, Fishlock V, Ford JKB, Garland EC, Keith SA, McGregor PK, Mesnick SL, Noad MJ, di Sciara GN, Robbins MM, Simmonds MP, Spina F, Thornton A, Wade PR, Whiting MJ, Williams J, Rendell L, Whitehead H, Whiten A, Rutz C. Animal cultures matter for conservation. Science. 2019 Mar 08; 363(6431):1032-1034. PMID: 30808816.

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Rojas-Bracho L, Brusca RC, Álvarez-Borrego S, Brownell RL, Camacho-Ibar V, Ceballos G, de la Cueva H, García-Hernández J, Hastings PA, Cárdenas-Hinojosa G, Jaramillo-Legorreta AM, Medellín R, Mesnick SL, Nieto-García E, Urbán J, Velarde E, Vidal O, Findley LT, Taylor BL. Unsubstantiated Claims Can Lead to Tragic Conservation Outcomes. Bioscience. 2019 Jan 01; 69(1):12-14. PMID: 30647475.

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Lewis LA, Calambokidis J, Stimpert AK, Fahlbusch J, Friedlaender AS, McKenna MF, Mesnick SL, Oleson EM, Southall BL, Szesciorka AR, Širovic A. Context-dependent variability in blue whale acoustic behaviour. R Soc Open Sci. 2018 Aug; 5(8):180241. PMID: 30225013.

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Morin PA, Foote AD, Baker CS, Hancock-Hanser BL, Kaschner K, Mate BR, Mesnick SL, Pease VL, Rosel PE, Alexander A. Demography or selection on linked cultural traits or genes? Investigating the driver of low mtDNA diversity in the sperm whale using complementary mitochondrial and nuclear genome analyses. Mol Ecol. 2018 Jun; 27(11):2604-2619. PMID: 29675902.

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Orbach DN, Hedrick B, Würsig B, Mesnick SL, Brennan PLR. The evolution of genital shape variation in female cetaceans. Evolution. 2018 Feb; 72(2):261-273. PMID: 29134627.

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Orbach DN, Marshall CD, Mesnick SL, Würsig B. Patterns of cetacean vaginal folds yield insights into functionality. PLoS One. 2017; 12(3):e0175037. PMID: 28362830.

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Greggor AL, Berger-Tal O, Blumstein DT, Angeloni L, Bessa-Gomes C, Blackwell BF, St Clair CC, Crooks K, de Silva S, Fernández-Juricic E, Goldenberg SZ, Mesnick SL, Owen M, Price CJ, Saltz D, Schell CJ, Suarez AV, Swaisgood RR, Winchell CS, Sutherland WJ. Research Priorities from Animal Behaviour for Maximising Conservation Progress. Trends Ecol Evol. 2016 12; 31(12):953-964. PMID: 27692480.

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Alexander A, Steel D, Hoekzema K, Mesnick SL, Engelhaupt D, Kerr I, Payne R, Baker CS. What influences the worldwide genetic structure of sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus)? Mol Ecol. 2016 Jun; 25(12):2754-72. PMID: 27037911.

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Orbach DN, Marshall CD, Würsig B, Mesnick SL. Variation in Female Reproductive Tract Morphology of the Common Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus). Anat Rec (Hoboken). 2016 Apr; 299(4):520-37. PMID: 26788790.

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Berger-Tal O, Blumstein DT, Carroll S, Fisher RN, Mesnick SL, Owen MA, Saltz D, St Claire CC, Swaisgood RR. A systematic survey of the integration of animal behavior into conservation. Conserv Biol. 2016 08; 30(4):744-53. PMID: 26548454.

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Dines JP, Mesnick SL, Ralls K, May-Collado L, Agnarsson I, Dean MD. A trade-off between precopulatory and postcopulatory trait investment in male cetaceans. Evolution. 2015 Jun; 69(6):1560-1572. PMID: 25929734.

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Schakner ZA, Lunsford C, Straley J, Eguchi T, Mesnick SL. Using models of social transmission to examine the spread of longline depredation behavior among sperm whales in the Gulf of Alaska. PLoS One. 2014; 9(10):e109079. PMID: 25272019; PMCID: PMC4182800.

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Rendell L, Mesnick SL, Dalebout ML, Burtenshaw J, Whitehead H. Can genetic differences explain vocal dialect variation in sperm whales, Physeter macrocephalus? Behav Genet. 2012 Mar; 42(2):332-43. PMID: 22015469.

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Mesnick SL, Taylor BL, Archer FI, Martien KK, Treviño SE, Hancock-Hanser BL, Moreno Medina SC, Pease VL, Robertson KM, Straley JM, Baird RW, Calambokidis J, Schorr GS, Wade P, Burkanov V, Lunsford CR, Rendell L, Morin PA. Sperm whale population structure in the eastern and central North Pacific inferred by the use of single-nucleotide polymorphisms, microsatellites and mitochondrial DNA. Mol Ecol Resour. 2011 Mar; 11 Suppl 1:278-98. PMID: 21429181.

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Godard-Codding CA, Clark R, Fossi MC, Marsili L, Maltese S, West AG, Valenzuela L, Rowntree V, Polyak I, Cannon JC, Pinkerton K, Rubio-Cisneros N, Mesnick SL, Cox SB, Kerr I, Payne R, Stegeman JJ. Pacific Ocean-wide profile of CYP1A1 expression, stable carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios, and organic contaminant burden in sperm whale skin biopsies. Environ Health Perspect. 2011 Mar; 119(3):337-43. PMID: 21134820; PMCID: PMC3059996.

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Engelhaupt D, Hoelzel AR, Nicholson C, Frantzis A, Mesnick S, Gero S, Whitehead H, Rendell L, Miller P, De Stefanis R, Cañadas A, Airoldi S, Mignucci-Giannoni AA. Female philopatry in coastal basins and male dispersion across the North Atlantic in a highly mobile marine species, the sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus). Mol Ecol. 2009 Oct; 18(20):4193-205. PMID: 19769692.

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Morin PA, Manaster C, Mesnick SL, Holland R. Normalization and binning of historical and multi-source microsatellite data: overcoming the problems of allele size shift with allelogram. Mol Ecol Resour. 2009 Nov; 9(6):1451-5. PMID: 21564931.

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Morin PA, Nestler A, Rubio-Cisneros NT, Robertson KM, Mesnick SL. Interfamilial characterization of a region of the ZFX and ZFY genes facilitates sex determination in cetaceans and other mammals. Mol Ecol. 2005 Sep; 14(10):3275-86. PMID: 16101791.

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