Publications

Bernal, D. & Whitledege, T.E. (1995). A study of nutrient uptake by the Texas Brown Tide using in-situ mesocosms, ERF, Corpus Christi, TX, (Abstract)

Bernal, D. & Graham, J.B.(1996). Possible effects of global change on the mako shark fishery, MFC (Abstract)

Bernal, D., Dickson, K.A. & Graham, J.B. (1998). Preliminary studies on the scaling of metabolic enzymes in the shortfin mako shark, Isurus oxyrinchus, SCAS (Abstract)

Bernal, D., Dickson, K.A. & Graham, J.B. (1999). Mako shark scaling: metabolic enzymes, locomotor and myocardial muscle, and gill surface area, SEB (Abstract)

Bernal, D., Dickson, K.A. & Graham, J.B. (2000). Temperature effects on mako shark locomotor muscle enzyme kinetics, ASIH (Abstract)

Bernal, D., Dickson, K.A. & Graham, J.B. (2001). Convergence for high-performance swimming in lamnid sharks and tunas. Thermoregulation and metabolic biochemistry. Amer. Zool. 40:942-943

Bernal, D., Dickson, K.A., Shadwick, R.E. & Graham, J.B. (2001). Analysis of the evolutionary convergence for high-performance swimming in lamnid sharks and tunas. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. 179:695-726. Download pdf

Bernal, D., Sepulveda, C. & Graham, J.B. (2001). Water tunnel studies of heat balance in swimming mako sharks. J. Exp. Biol. 204:4043-4054. Download pdf

Bernal, D., Sepulveda, C., Mathieu-Costello, O. & Graham, J.B. (2003). Comparative studies of high performance swimming in sharks: I. Red muscle morphometrics, vascularization, and ultrastructure. J. Exp. Biol.206, 2831-2843. Download pdf

Bernal, D., Smith, D., Lopez, G., Weitz, D., Grimminger, T., Dickson, K.A. & Graham, J.B. (2003). Comparative studies of high performance swimming in sharks. II. Metabolic biochemistry of locomotor and myocardial muscle in endothermic and ectothermic sharks. J. Exp. Biol. 206, 2845-2857. Download pdf

Bernal, D. & Sepulveda, C. (2005). Evidence for temperature elevation in the aerobic swimming musculature of the Common Thresher Shark, Alopias vulpinus. Copeia 2005, 146-151. Download pdf

Sepulveda, C., Wegner, N., Bernal, D. & Graham, J.B. (2005). Red muscle morphology of the thresher sharks (Family Alopiidae). J. Exp. Biol.208, 4255-4261. Download pdf (editor summary)

Bernal, D., Donley, J.M., Shadwick, R.E. & Syme, D.A. (2005). Mammal-like muscles power swimming in a cold-water shark. Nature.437, 1349-1352. Download pdf (Supplemtary information) (JEB summary) (editors summary)

Cameron N.P, Bernal, D., Theilmann, R.J., Sepulveda, C.A., Graham, J.B., & Frank, L. R. (in review). The use of T1-weighted magnetic resonance imaging to quantify red myotomal muscle volume and geometry in the mako shark, Isurus oxyrinchus.

Bernal, D., Cech, J.J., Roessig, J.M., Matsumoto, T., Sepulveda, C., & Graham, J.B. (in review). Thermal effects on blood oxygen-binding properties in endothermic and ectothermic sharks.

Hight, B.V., Holts, D., Graham, J.B., Kennedy, B.P., Taylor, V., Sepulveda, C.A., Bernal, D., Ramon, D., Rasmussen, R, and Lai, Chin, L. (in review). Plasma catecholamine levels as indicators of the post-release survivorship of juvenile pelagic sharks caught on experimental drift longlines in the Southern California Bight.