Research

Material Properties:
Shark cartilage: 
– Danielle N. Ingle*, Lisa J. Natanson, and Marianne E. Porter. 2018. Mechanical behavior of shark vertebral centra at 1 biologically relevant strains. The Journal of Experimental Biology. 221. jeb188318; doi:10.1242/jeb.188318; Published 12 December 2018.
–Marianne E. Porter, Candido Diaz Jr., Joshua J. Sturm, Sindre Grotmol, Adam P. Summers, and John H. Long Jr. 2014. Built for speed: Strain in the cartilaginous vertebral columns of sharks. Zoology.117: 19-27. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.zool.2013.10.007
– Marianne E. Porter and John H. Long Jr. 2010. Vertebrae in Compression: Mechanical Behavior of Arches and Centra in the Gray Smooth-hound (Mustelus californicus). Journal of Morphology. 271 (3): 366-375.
– Marianne E. Porter, Thomas J. Koob, and Adam P. Summers. 2007. The contribution of mineral to the material properties of vertebral cartilage from the smooth-hound shark Mustelus californicus. The Journal of Experimental Biology. 210: 3319-3327. Featured article in Inside JEB.
– Marianne E. Porter, Jennie L. Beltrán, Thomas J. Koob, and Adam P. Summers. Material properties and biochemical composition of mineralized vertebral cartilage in seven elasmobranch species (Chondrichthyes). The Journal of Experimental Biology. 209:2920-2928.

Shark skin / keels:
– Shelby B. Creager* and Marianne E. Porter. 2018. A comparative study on the mechanical properties of shark skin. Zoology. 126:154-163. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.zool.2017.10.002

Marine mammal bone:
– Danielle N. Ingle* and Marianne E. Porter. 2020. Mechanical properties of manatee vertebral bone vary along the length of the column and over development. The Journal of Experimental Biology. 223:jeb213009; doi:10.1242/jeb.213009; Published 16 March 2020.

Lionfish spines:
– Katherine A. Galloway* and Marianne E. Porter. 2019. Mechanical properties of the venomous spines in Pterois volitans and morphology among lionfish species. The Journal of Experimental Biology. 222, jeb197905. doi:10.1242/jeb.197905 ; Published 27 March 2019; *journal cover.

Swimming Kinematics:
– Sarah L. Hoffmann* and Marianne E. Porter. 2019. Body and pectoral fin kinematics during routine yaw turning in bonnethead sharks (Sphyrna tiburo). Integrative Organismal Biology. Volume 1, Issue 1, 2019, obz014, https://doi.org/10.1093/iob/obz014; 22 June 2019.
– Sarah L. Hoffmann*, Cassandra Donatelli*, Samantha C. Leigh*, Elizabeth L. Brainerd, and Marianne E. Porter. 2019. Three-dimensional movements of the pectoral fin during yaw turns in the Pacific spiny dogfish, Squalus suckleyi. Biology Open; 8: bio037291; doi:10.1242/bio.037291; Published 17 January 2019.
– Sarah L. Hoffmann*, Steven M. Warren, and Marianne E. Porter. 2017. Hammerhead shark species modulate swimming amplitude or frequency depending on cephalofoil shape. The Journal of Experimental Biology. 220(18): 3336-3343. doi:10.1242/jeb.157941 ; *journal cover.
– Marianne E. Porter, Randy H. Ewoldt, and John H. Long Jr. 2016. Automatic control: the vertebral column of dogfish sharks behaves as a continuously variable transmission with smoothly shifting functions. The Journal of Experimental Biology. 219: 2908-2919. Doi:10.1242/jeb/135251
– Marianne E. Porter, Cassandra M. Roque, and John H. Long Jr. 2011. Body form and posture predict the performance of leopard sharks (Triakis semifasciata) in yaw turning. Zoology. 114: 348-359.
– Hannah G. Rosenblum, John H. Long Jr, and Marianne E. Porter. 2011. Sink and swim:  kinematic evidence for axial undulatory and lifting-body mechanisms in negatively-buoyant electric rays (Narcine brasiliensis). The Journal of Experimental Biology. 214: 2935-2948.
– John H. Long Jr., Marianne E. Porter, Robert G. Root, and C.W. Liew. 2010. Go Reconfigure: How fish change shape as they swim and evolve. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 50 (6):1120-1139.
– Marianne E. Porter, Cassandra M. Roque, and John H. Long Jr. Turning maneuvers in sharks: predicting body curvature from vertebral morphology. Journal of Morphology. 270: 954-965.

Swimming in the wild: Coming soon!

Morphology:
Vertebrae: 
– Lisa J. Natanson, Greg Skomal, Sarah L. Hoffmann*, Marianne E. Porter, Kenneth Goldman, and David Serra. 2018. Age and growth of elasmobranchs: do vertebral band pairs record age? Marine and Freshwater Research; https://doi.org/10.1071/MF17279. *NOAA Fisheries Northeast Fisheries Science Center 2018 Publication Award. The Annual Publication Award recognizes the most impactful paper lead by a NEFSC staff member published during the previous year.

Olfactory Organs: Coming soon!

Hydrodynamics:
– Amirkhosor Kazemi, Sarah L. Hoffmann*, Steven M. Warren, Oscar M. Curet, and Marianne E. Porter. 2018. Effects of shark head morphology on the wake structure. Flow Control Conference Paper. AIAA Aviation Forum. AIAA-2018-4251. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2018-4251. Published Online: 24 Jun 2018. Conference June 25-29, 2018 in Atlanta, Georgia.

Robots:
– Sonia F. Roberts, Jonathan Hirokawa, Hannah G. Rosenblum, Hassan Sakhtah, Andres A. Gutierrez, Marianne E. Porter and John H. Long, Jr. 2014. Testing biological hypotheses with embodied robots: adaptations, accidents, and by-products in the evolution of vertebrates. Frontiers in Robots and AI. November. 1: 1-16. https://doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2014.00012
– John H. Long Jr., Thomas J. Koob, Justin T. Schaefer, Adam P. Summers, Kurt Bantilan, Sindre Grotmol, and Marianne E. Porter. 2011. Inspired by sharks: a biomimetic skeleton for the flapping, propulsive tail of an aquatic robot. Marine Technology Society Journal. 45(4): 119-129.
– John H. Long Jr., Nicole Krenitsky, Sonia F. Roberts, Jonathan Hirokawa, Josh deLeeuw, and Marianne E. Porter. 2011. Testing biomimetic structures in bioinspired robots. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 51 (1): 158-175.