The Deep-Sea Podcast

Sorry the episode is a little late…. But it’s a bumper! 

Alan has been checking out hypercars while sharks have been checking out Thom. In the news, we have art, anglerfish, squid and sea spiders. Then an orafish turns up, and we are all doomed.

In this month's episode, we discuss mesophotic reefs, the deeper extents of coral reefs that have been overlooked in the past. It’s a wild ride that leads us to homemade hyperbaric chambers, the aquarium trade and the world’s most expensive fish. Strap in for a rollercoaster ride as we dive to the limits of scuba. 

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The New Zealand wandering anemone

The supergiant amphipod wiki page

Under the Sea Exhibit

Anglerfish radiation paper

Alexe's website

Oarfish are turning up everywhere

Andrew and Thom’s oarfish blog

DOSI new podcast - Think Deep!

Marine Snow Carbon Transport

Methane Powered Sea-Spiders

Ancient Oceans filled with Squid

Kai’s website

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Twitter

Mesophotic fish collecting video

Taken by Ghislain Bardout from Under The Pole. The diver is Timothy Bennett, and he was collecting for the Australian Museum Research Expedition.

One of Kai’s recent mesophotic reef papers

The hyperbaric chamber for fishes

The paper where the chamber is described

FishPix

The peppermint Angelfish

Kai’s video of the peppermint angel

Teresa’s project

Her recent paper on black corals

Ribbonfish larvae paper

Theme: Hadal Zone Express by Märvel

Logo image: The peppermint angel by Yi-Kai Tea

For this month’s interview, we speak with Dr. Georgia Nester, a colleague of Alan’s from the University of Western Australia, about eDNA (Environmental DNA is any genetic material left behind by organisms in an environment). She talks about how several collection methods, eg.: Niskin bottles, sponges and paper filters, located on the deep-sea lander system, can retrieve different types of eDNA from the deep. Georgia also touches on how diel migrators can really mess with eDNA data, and larvae gave her a surprise when she kept getting hits from very deep-living fish in her surface samples. Georgia even used a water sample to locate surprise eDNA evidence of the Giant Squid in Australian waters, which Al takes as a chance to remind  Thom of his Antarctic colossal squid failure. 

Alan talks about how valuable he thinks eDNA is, how it can give a great snapshot of what can’t be seen on the footage or in the submersible, and how it might be able to narrow down species that are difficult to catch, like Bassozetus cusk eels. 

The show is self-sustaining, but we couldn’t do it without you. Here’s a link to our page on how to support us, from the free options to becoming a patron of the show. We want to say a huge thank you to those patrons who have already pledged to support us:

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Nester, G. M., Suter, L., Kitchener, J. A., Bunce, M., Polanowski, A. M., Wasserman, J., & Deagle, B. (2024). Long-distance Southern Ocean environmental DNA (eDNA) transect provides insights into spatial marine biota and invasion pathways for non-native species. Science of the Total Environment, 951, 175657.

Takahashi, M., Saccò, M., Kestel, J. H., Nester, G., Campbell, M. A., Van Der Heyde, M., ... & Allentoft, M. E. (2023). Aquatic environmental DNA: A review of the macro-organismal biomonitoring revolution. Science of the Total Environment, 873, 162322.

Theme: Hadal Zone Express by Märvel

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“Exploration is about the place, adventurism is about the person, science is about the question”

Professor Alan Jamieson

In an episode recorded earlier than usual, which is to say not recorded late, and so perhaps recorded right on time?... we are talking about environmental DNA or eDNA. 

Thom is headed off to Norfolk Island, north of New Zealand, to characterize the unique life in the region and hopefully not be eaten by sharks. Alan’s been up to secret things, organizing everyone’s lives and, for a change, is recording this episode from the same country as the last one. 

In the news, Thom and Alan discuss a recent paper about the extent of ocean exploration, the valuable research it was based on, and the unfortunately defeatist tone. There is a lot left to do, but we have done so much!

Also in the news: Bottom trawling releases not only organic carbon into the ocean but also pyrite, which reacts with oxygen in the water and reduces the oceans’ ability to absorb carbon from the air. An art installation pairs a Sri Lankan artist with JAMSTEC and NuStar Technologies for a collection of steel cubes located 7,000 meters (23,000 feet) below the ocean close to the Marianas Trench. The cubes are housed in a seismic monitoring system designed for registering tectonic plate movements. And finally Al and Thom discuss gene mutation in deep-sea fish and a new paper that gives evidence to an old theory that some deep-sea fish are  “ancient survivors,” from dinosaur times, while others are “new immigrants,” post mass extinction. 

For this month’s interview, we speak with Dr. Georgia Nester, a colleague of Alan’s from the University of Western Australia, about eDNA (Environmental DNA is any genetic material left behind by organisms in an environment). She talks about how several collection methods, eg.: Niskin bottles, sponges and paper filters, located on the deep-sea lander system, can retrieve different types of eDNA from the deep. Georgia also touches on how diel migrators can really mess with eDNA data, and larvae gave her a surprise when she kept getting hits from very deep-living fish in her surface samples. Georgia even used a water sample to locate surprise eDNA evidence of the Giant Squid in Australian waters, which Al takes as a chance to remind  Thom of his Antarctic colossal squid failure. 

Alan talks about how valuable he thinks eDNA is, how it can give a great snapshot of what can’t be seen on the footage or in the submersible, and how it might be able to narrow down species that are difficult to catch, like Bassozetus cusk eels. 

Hold onto your buoyant elbow glands because we’ve got a great episode here! 

The show is self-sustaining, but we couldn’t do it without you. Here’s a link to our page on how to support us, from the free options to becoming a patron of the show. We want to say a huge thank you to those patrons who have already pledged to support us:

Don’t forget that becoming a patron also gives you access to the Discord and a like-minded community of deep-sea folks, including scientists, artists, students, and previous guests! Deep-sea news often breaks there first.

Check out our podcast merch here!

Feel free to get in touch with us with questions or your own tales from the high seas at:

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Nester, G. M., Suter, L., Kitchener, J. A., Bunce, M., Polanowski, A. M., Wasserman, J., & Deagle, B. (2024). Long-distance Southern Ocean environmental DNA (eDNA) transect provides insights into spatial marine biota and invasion pathways for non-native species. Science of the Total Environment, 951, 175657.

Takahashi, M., Saccò, M., Kestel, J. H., Nester, G., Campbell, M. A., Van Der Heyde, M., ... & Allentoft, M. E. (2023). Aquatic environmental DNA: A review of the macro-organismal biomonitoring revolution. Science of the Total Environment, 873, 162322.

Theme: Hadal Zone Express by Märvel

Logo image: Microsoft CoPilot

Song of the month: Crazy Train by Ozzy Osbourne, performed by William Jamieson

We are still talking about Antarctica, the continent that keeps on giving!

For this month's interview, we speak with Devin Harrison - Marine Geoscientist/Postdoctoral Researcher at Kelpie Geoscience - Devin is a postdoctoral research fellow at Kelpie Geoscience. His research utilises high-resolution topographic models of the seafloor and complementary geophysical and geospatial datasets to understand the geomorphic evolution and process landform relationship of the deep sea and the continental shelves. Devin is particularly interested in the glacial geomorphological record and the evolution of glacial environments from the last glacial maximum (~20-25 thousand years ago) to the present day.

We’re really trying to make this project self-sustaining, so we have started looking for ways to support the podcast. Here’s a link to our page on how to support us, from the free options to becoming a patron of the show. We want to say a huge thank you to those patrons who have already pledged to support us:

Elena

Thanks again for tuning in; we’ll deep-see you next time!

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Dowdeswell, J.A., Canals, M., Jakobsson, M., Todd, B.J., Dowdeswell, E.K. and Hogan, K. (eds.), 2016. Atlas of Submarine Glacial Landforms: Modern, Quaternary and Ancient, The Geological Society of London, London. vol. 46, 618pp. doi:10.1144/M46.

Batchelor, C.L., Christie, F.D.W., Ottesen, D., Montelli, A., Evans, J., Dowdeswell, E.K., Bjarnadóttir, L.R. and Dowdeswell, J.A., 2023. Rapid, buoyancy-driven ice-sheet retreat of hundreds of metres per day. Nature, vol. 617, issue 7959, p.105-110. Doi:10.1038/s41586-023-05876-1.  

Smith, J.A., Graham, A.G.C., Post, A.L. et al. The marine geological imprint of Antarctic ice shelves. Nat Commun 10, 5635 (2019).

Seafloor surficial sediment variability across the abyssal plains of the central and eastern Pacific Ocean

Theme: Hadal Zone Express by Märvel

Logo image: Lance Wordsworth (Inkfish Media)

We are still talking about Antarctica, the continent that keeps on giving!

Alan and Thom discuss trying to stop working momentarily, constructing a treehouse, and acquiring a shark.

In the news, we rattle off a list of newly discovered species with some very cool (but hard to pronounce) names. There has been a lot of squiddy news. Footage of divers swimming with a giant squid has resurfaced; in an exclusive for the podcast, Alan has recorded more amazing Magnapinna (bigfin or elbow squid) footage. And the biggest bit of news: the colossal squid has been seen alive in its natural habitat for the first time! Thom and Kat were part of the press conference.

Megalodon (the not-deep-sea and very extinct shark) has been reassessed based on what we do know. It was likely longer and slimmer than we thought, and we have estimations for their speed and size at birth.

We also have a new coelacanth population and a classic car found in the deep.

For this month's interview, we speak with Devin Harrison - Marine Geoscientist/Postdoctoral Researcher at Kelpie Geoscience - Devin is a postdoctoral research fellow at Kelpie Geoscience. His research utilises high-resolution topographic models of the seafloor and complementary geophysical and geospatial datasets to understand the geomorphic evolution and process landform relationship of the deep sea and the continental shelves. Devin is particularly interested in the glacial geomorphological record and the evolution of glacial environments from the last glacial maximum (~20-25 thousand years ago) to the present day.

We’re really trying to make this project self-sustaining, so we have started looking for ways to support the podcast. Here’s a link to our page on how to support us, from the free options to becoming a patron of the show. We want to say a huge thank you to those patrons who have already pledged to support us:

Elena

Thanks again for tuning in; we’ll deep-see you next time!

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A new species of hound shark from the northern Indian ocean, Iago goplakrishnani

New genus and species of feather duster worm from the hydrocarbon seeps in the Gulf of Mexico. – Seepicola viridiplumi

Five new trench isopods in the Haploniscus belyaevi complex.

And a new dumbo octopis, Grimpoteuthis feitiana

New paper on the meg

Tyler Greenfield’s blog

Divers Encounter a Live Giant Squid Swimming on the Ocean Surface

https://youtu.be/gZxGGQc_hRI?si=ZmRhwaIF2T9RV-Lk – original video

Original video with Kat’s voiceover

Kat’s piece in The Conversation

Dowdeswell, J.A., Canals, M., Jakobsson, M., Todd, B.J., Dowdeswell, E.K. and Hogan, K. (eds.), 2016. Atlas of Submarine Glacial Landforms: Modern, Quaternary and Ancient, The Geological Society of London, London. vol. 46, 618pp. doi:10.1144/M46.

Batchelor, C.L., Christie, F.D.W., Ottesen, D., Montelli, A., Evans, J., Dowdeswell, E.K., Bjarnadóttir, L.R. and Dowdeswell, J.A., 2023. Rapid, buoyancy-driven ice-sheet retreat of hundreds of metres per day. Nature, vol. 617, issue 7959, p.105-110. Doi:10.1038/s41586-023-05876-1.  

Smith, J.A., Graham, A.G.C., Post, A.L. et al. The marine geological imprint of Antarctic ice shelves. Nat Commun 10, 5635 (2019).

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13496-5

Seafloor surficial sediment variability across the abyssal plains of the central and eastern Pacific Ocean

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/earth-science/articles/10.3389/feart.2025.1527469/full

Theme: Hadal Zone Express by Märvel

Logo image: Lance Wordsworth (Inkfish Media)

Song of the month: The Midnight Zone by SLADE

It’s the last in our run of episodes about Antarctica. We are all back home, and we promise to stop bothering the poor continent.

Thom couldn’t talk about it until after the press release, but the Schmidt Ocean Institute cruise he was on had to look at the seabed under a 150-meter-thick ice shelf right as it moved out of the way. We talked to the science leads on that cruise, Patricia Esquete and Sasha Montelli. We learned about the hydrography and glaciology of that region and then the seabed and communities that were revealed when the ice shelf moved away.

We’re really trying to make this project self-sustaining, so we have started looking for ways to support the podcast. Here’s a link to our page on how to support us, from the free options to becoming a patron of the show. We want to say a huge thank you to those patrons who have already pledged to support us:

Ryker and Kerry Jowett 

Thanks again for tuning in; we’ll deep-see you next time!

Check out our podcast merch here! Which now includes Alan’s beloved apron and a much anticipated new design... 

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Smith, J.A., Graham, A.G.C., Post, A.L. et al. The marine geological imprint of Antarctic ice shelves. Nat Commun 10, 5635 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13496-5

Helen Amanda Fricker et al., Antarctica in 2025: Drivers of deep uncertainty in projected ice loss.Science387,601-609(2025).DOI:10.1126/science.adt9619 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adt9619

Ingels, J., Aronson, R.B., Smith, C.R., Baco, A., Bik, H.M., Blake, J.A., Brandt, A., Cape, M., Demaster, D., Dolan, E. and Domack, E., 2021. Antarctic ecosystem responses following ice‐shelf collapse and iceberg calving: Science review and future research. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 12(1), p.e682.

https://wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/am-pdf/10.1002/wcc.682

Challenger 150 - Home - Challenger 150

The Ocean Census | Discover Life

Credits

Theme: Hadal Zone Express by Märvel

It’s the last in our run of episodes about Antarctica. We are all back home, and we promise to stop bothering the poor continent.

Alan and Thom discuss returning to an inbox of horrors and readjusting to time away.

More cable cutting in our news updates, blobfish being voted fish of the year, and the tongue-eating louse potentially being invertebrate of the year. We don’t want to say we influence the news, but it seems a little spooky.

Thom couldn’t talk about it until after the press release, but the Schmidt Ocean Institute cruise he was on had to look at the seabed under a 150-meter-thick ice shelf right as it moved out of the way. We talked to the science leads on that cruise, Patricia Esquete and Sasha Montelli. We learned about the hydrography and glaciology of that region and then the seabed and communities that were revealed when the ice shelf moved away.

Kat and Thom updated us on what it was like to join a tourist expedition ship, and we grabbed a Coffee With Andrew to learn what it was like to dive almost 5km deep in a sub.

You’re bound to leave this episode with a watery smile!

We’re really trying to make this project self-sustaining, so we have started looking for ways to support the podcast. Here’s a link to our page on how to support us, from the free options to becoming a patron of the show. We want to say a huge thank you to those patrons who have already pledged to support us:

Ryker and Kerry Jowett 

Thanks again for tuning in; we’ll deep-see you next time!

Check out our podcast merch here! Which now includes Alan’s beloved apron and a much anticipated new design... 

Feel free to get in touch with us with questions or your own tales from the high seas on:

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Cable cutting

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/545872/the-new-threat-to-the-undersea-cables-keeping-our-internet-going

https://www.submarinecablemap.com/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct7yqx

Blobfish fish of the year

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360621538/worlds-ugliest-animal-named-new-zealands-fish-year

Invertebrate of the year

‘Unique and important’: Tongue-biting louse is wonderfully gruesome | Marine life | The Guardian

Smith, J.A., Graham, A.G.C., Post, A.L. et al. The marine geological imprint of Antarctic ice shelves. Nat Commun 10, 5635 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13496-5

Helen Amanda Fricker et al., Antarctica in 2025: Drivers of deep uncertainty in projected ice loss.Science387,601-609(2025).DOI:10.1126/science.adt9619 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adt9619

Ingels, J., Aronson, R.B., Smith, C.R., Baco, A., Bik, H.M., Blake, J.A., Brandt, A., Cape, M., Demaster, D., Dolan, E. and Domack, E., 2021. Antarctic ecosystem responses following ice‐shelf collapse and iceberg calving: Science review and future research. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 12(1), p.e682.

https://wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/am-pdf/10.1002/wcc.682

Challenger 150 - Home - Challenger 150

The Ocean Census | Discover Life

Journal Minerva – Diving into Relevance: How Deep Sea Researchers Articulate Societal Relevance within their Epistemic Living Spaces

s11024-025-09577-z.pdf

Credits

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Logo image: ROV SuBastian / Schmidt Ocean Institute

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Coming to you from an Airbnb, above a ski hire shop, next to a construction site in Ushuia, Argentina… It’s a very special episode as we continue to pester Antarctica.

We are here for today is a very special birthday. Our favorite and most elusive colossal squid, Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni, has been described for 100 years but never seen in its natural environment! We are having a birthday bash for the big girl.

Joined by Kat Bolstad of the Auckland University of Technology, Squid Squad, we learn what we do and don’t know, as well as the project Thom and Kat came up with to try to find it.

We’re really trying to make this project self-sustaining, so we have started looking for ways to support the podcast. Here’s a link to our page on how to support us, from the free options to becoming a patron of the show. We want to say a huge thank you to those patrons who have already pledged to support us:

Luz, Caro Mclaren, Tadhg, Austin Horenkamp, Thora, Lindsey and Harrison

Thanks again for tuning in; we’ll deep-see you next time!

Check out our podcast merch here! Which now includes Alan’s beloved apron and a much anticipated new design... 

Feel free to get in touch with us with questions or your own tales from the high seas on:

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Thom - @ThomLinley 

Thom - @thom.linley 

Thom - @deepseapod.com

Follow Kat on 

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Original colossal squid description

Pure Ocean Fund

Intrepid Travel

Auckland Aquarium - SEA LIFE Kelly Tarlton's Aquarium

Us testing the camera in the aquarium

Mantis Sub underwater housings

https://www.mantis-sub.com/

Otago University and the NZ Whale and Dolphin Trust

Importance in sperm whale diet

Colossal and giant squid eyes

Toothfish predation by colossal squid one and two

Whales vs squid arms race

Ceph Ref and GoFundMe

Umwelt - the sensory world an animal lives in.

Intraspecific - between the same species

Interspecific - between different species 

Theme – Hadal Zone Express by Märvel

Logo image: Thom Linley

Happy birthday: The guests aboard the Ocean Endeavour

Coming to you from an Airbnb, above a ski hire shop, next to a construction site in Ushuia, Argentina… It’s a very special episode as we continue to pester Antarctica.

Alan checks in from Barcelona for mysterious reasons. We’ll have to get the truth our of him in the future…

Lots is going on in the news; deep-sea fish keep turning up, including a little Melanocetus anglerfish - sometimes called a black seadevil. This has had a real impact on people. The media tried to call it a monster, but the people fell for this little fish. An orfish, the doomsday fish, also turns up, but is that really a sign of doom?

There’s a new giant isopod, and it’s named after Darth Vader - Bathy-normouse! We get excited about Beryllium-10 and ponder neutrinos. 

But what we are here for today is a very special birthday. Our favorite and most elusive colossal squid, Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni, has been described for 100 years but never seen in its natural environment! We are having a birthday bash for the big girl.

Joined by Kat Bolstad of the Auckland University of Technology, Squid Squad, we learn what we do and don’t know, as well as the project Thom and Kat came up with to try to find it.

We’re really trying to make this project self-sustaining, so we have started looking for ways to support the podcast. Here’s a link to our page on how to support us, from the free options to becoming a patron of the show. We want to say a huge thank you to those patrons who have already pledged to support us:

Luz, Caro Mclaren, Tadhg, Austin Horenkamp, Thora, Lindsey and Harrison

Thanks again for tuning in; we’ll deep-see you next time!

Check out our podcast merch here! Which now includes Alan’s beloved apron and a much anticipated new design... 

Feel free to get in touch with us with questions or your own tales from the high seas on:

[email protected]

We’d love to actually play your voice so feel free to record a short audio note!

We are also on 

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Facebook: DeepSeaPodcast

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Alan - @Hadalbloke

Thom - @ThomLinley 

Thom - @thom.linley 

Thom - @deepseapod.com

Follow Kat on 

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Twitter: @ALCESonline

Anglerfish

New York Times

Today

Beetle Moses cartoon

Orfish

Stranding

Doomsday fish paper

Vader isopod

Radioactive blip

KM3Net

Original colossal squid description

Pure Ocean Fund

Intrepid Travel

Auckland Aquarium - SEA LIFE Kelly Tarlton's Aquarium

Us testing the camera in the aquarium

Mantis Sub underwater housings

https://www.mantis-sub.com/

Otago University and the NZ Whale and Dolphin Trust

Importance in sperm whale diet

Colossal and giant squid eyes

Toothfish predation by colossal squid one and two

Whales vs squid arms race

Ceph Ref and GoFundMe

Umwelt - the sensory world an animal lives in.

Intraspecific - between the same species

Interspecific - between different species 

Theme – Hadal Zone Express by Märvel

Logo image: Thom Linley

Happy birthday: The guests aboard the Ocean Endeavour

Poem: One of our patrons, Tadhg

Timestamps/ chapters

00:00:00 - Intro

00:05:55 - News

00:21:35 - Interview - Colossal squid

01:08:00 - Outro

Our short and to the point PRESSURISED version of episode 55. If you don't have time for the full episode and want to get right to the science without any of our waffle, this is the place to be!

Read the show notes and find the full episode here:

https://www.armatusoceanic.com/podcast/055-antarcticfishes

Now it’s Thom’s turn to hit Antarctica. He’s out with the Schmidt Ocean Institute on the Antarctic Climate Connections expedition to the Bellinghousen Sea, to the west of the Antarctic Peninsula. 

He will record, edit and upload a podcast from there… somehow. This episode may sound a little rougher as a result, but the content is gold as ever… Underrated belter alert.

We talk to Antarctic fishes expert Thomas Desvignes about the fishes that are only found there and their amazing adaptations. Of course, we also have a remote coffee with Andrew.

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Antifreeze in fish: https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.94.8.3811

Supercooling and heating processes: https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.1410256111

Cod antifreeze: https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.1817138116

X-cell disease paper: https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(22)00860-4

Hemoglobin paper: https://academic.oup.com/mbe/article/40/11/msad236/7329987

The new species of dragonfish: https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5501.2.3

Nesting in notothenioids: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/faf.12523

Icefish nest colony:  https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(21)01698-5

And the three comics:

https://blogs.uoregon.edu/antarcticfishdiversity/

https://blogs.uoregon.edu/antarcticxcell/

https://blogs.uoregon.edu/fishsexdetermination/

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