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GRUNION SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE REVIEW
Journal Articles, Books, Chapters, Theses, Dissertations

Grunion Science in the 1990s
  • Benz, G. W., R. L. Otting & A. Case. 1995. Redescription of Argulus melanostictus (Branchiura: Argulidae), a parasite of California grunion (Leuresthes tenuis: Atherinidae), with notes regarding chemical control of A. melanostictus in a captive host population. Journal of Parasitology 81: 754-761.
  • Broadbent, S. L. 1998. Embryo survival of the California grunion, Leuresthes tenius (Osteichthyes: Atherinidae): Individual and seasonal variation in egg pod viability. Master’s Thesis, California State Univ., Long Beach. 50 pp.
  • Darken, R. S., K. L. M. Martin & M. C. Fisher. 1998. Metabolism during delayed hatching in terrestrial eggs of a marine fish, the grunion Leuresthes tenius. Physiological Zoology 71(4): 400-406.
  • DeMartini, E. E. 1999. Intertidal spawning. In M. H. Horn, K. L. M. Martin & M. A. Chotkowski (eds.), Intertidal fishes:  Life in two worlds, pp. 143-164. Academic Press, San Diego, CA.
  • Dyer, B. S. & B. Chernoff. 1996. Phylogenetic relationships among Atheriniform fishes (Teleostei: Atherinomorpha). Zoological Journal Linnean Society 117: 1-69.
  • Gaida, I. H., D. G. Buth, S. D. Matthews & A. L. Snow. 1998. Allozymic variation in the California grunion, Leuresthes tenuis (Atheriniformes: Atherinopsidae). Gene Familes and Isozymes Bulletin, Sheffield Halam Univ. Press.
  • Gellert, G. A., S. J. Daugherty, L. Rabiee, M. Mazur & R. E. Merryman. 1994. California’s American Trader oil spill: Effective interagency and public-private collaboration in environmental disaster. J. Environmental Health 46(4): 7-14.
  • Gobalet, K. W. & T. L. Jones. 1995. Prehistoric Native American fisheries of the central California coast. Transactions American Fisheries Society 124: 813-823. 
  • Haas, J. W., Jr. 1991. Irwin A. Moon, F. Alton Everest and Will H. Houghton: Early links between the Moody Bible Institute and the American Scientific Affiliation. Perspectives on Science and the Christian Faith: 249-258.
  • Lawrenz-Miller, S. 1991. Grunion spawning versus beach nourishment:  nursery or burial ground? Proceedings of the 7th Symposium on Coastal and Ocean Management.  Coastal Zone ’91(3): 2197-2208.
  • Loew, E. R., R. A. McAlary, W. N. McFarland. 1997. Ultraviolet visual sensitivity in the larvae of two species of marine atherinid fishes. Pp. 195-210 in: Zooplankton: Sensory Ecology and Physiology (P. H. Lenz, D. K. Hartline, J. Purcell, D. Macmillian, eds.). CRC Press.
  • Martin, K.L.M. 1999. Ready and waiting: Delayed hatching and extended incubation of anamniotic vertebrate terrestrial eggs. American Zoologist 39: 279-288.
  • Martin, K. L. M. & R. A. Strathmann. 1999. Aquatic organisms, terrestrial eggs: Early development at the water's edge. American Zoologist 39: 215-217. 
  • Middaugh, D. P., L. R. Goodman & M. J. Hemmer. 1993. Methods for spawning, culturing and conducting toxicity tests with early life stages of estuarine and marine fishes. Pp. 167-192 in: Handbook of Ecotoxicology, Volume One. P. Calow, Ed. Blackwell Scientific Publishers, Oxford, England. 
  • McCoy, E. A. 1998. Effects of No. 2 fuel on Leuresthes tenuis and comparison to P450 reporter gene system biomarker. MS Thesis, San Diego State University, 150 pp.
  • Parenti, L. R. 1993. Relationships of atherinomorph fishes (Teleostei). Bull. Marine Sci. 52: 170-196.
  • Rosales-Casian, J. A. 1994. The effect of rotifer (Brachionus plicatilis) density on the survival and growth of California grunion (Leuresthes tenuis Ayres) larvae.  Marine Environmental Research 38: 71-75. 
  • Rosales-Casian, J. A., I. Alfonso-Hernandez, and N. G. Hammann. 1990. The effect of seawater chlorination on the survival and growth of California grunion (Leuresthes tenuis Ayres) larvae, in laboratory conditions. Ciencias Marinas 16: 31-46. 
  • Taylor, M. 1990. Estuarine and intertidal teleosts. In A. D. Munro, A. P. Scott, and T. J. Lam (eds.), Reproductive Seasonality in Teleosts: Environmental Influences, pp. 109-124.  CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida.
  • Vasquez-Yeomans, L., E. Carrillo-Barrios-Gomez, and E. Sosa-Cordero. 1990. The effect of the nanoflagellate Tetraselmis suecica on the growth and survival of the grunion, Leuresthes tenuis, larvae. Environmental Biology of Fishes 29: 193-200.
  • Vasquez-Yeomans, L and E. Sosa-Cordero. 1992. Culture of grunion Leuresthes tenuis (Ayres) larvae to metamorphosis, in the laboratory. Ciencias Marinas 18: 1-18.
  • Watson, W. 1996. Atheriniformes. Pp. 608-619 in H. G. Moser (ed.), The Early Stages of Fishes in the California Current Region. California Coop. Oceanic Fish. Invest. Atlas 33.
Grunion Science 2000 – 2010
  • Allen, L.G., A. M. Findlay & C. M. Phalen. 2002. Structure and standing stock of the fish assemblages of San Diego Bay, California from 1994 to 1999. Bulletin Southern California Academy of Sciences 101: 49-85.
  • American Trader Trustee Council, 2001. Final restoration plan and environmental assessment for seabirds injured by the American Trader oil spill.  Report of the American Trader Natural Resource Trustee Council, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, California Department of Fish and Game, and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
  • Bernardi, G., L. Findley & A. Rocha-Olivares. 2003. Vicariance and dispersal across Baja California in disjunct marine fish populations.  Evolution 57: 1599-1609.
  • Broughton, J. M., V. I. Cannon & S. Arnold. 2006. The taphonomy of owl-deposited fish remains and the origin of the Homestead Cave ichthyofauna. Journal of Taphonomy 4: 69-95.
  • Brown, E. 2010. Local adaptation along a latitudinal gradient in Pacific versus Atlantic-coast fishes. Master’s Thesis, State University of New York at Stony Brook.
  • Bunn, N. A., C. J. Fox & T. Webb. 2000. A literature review of studies on fish egg mortality: implications for the estimation of spawning stock biomass by the annual egg production method. Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Science Series Technical Report 111, Lowestoft, 37 pp.
  • Byrne, R. & J. Avise. 2009. Multiple paternity and extra-group fertilizations in a natural population of California grunion (Leuresthes tenuis), a beach-spawning marine fish. Marine Biology 156: 1681-1690.
  • Chapman, T.  2000. Ultrastructural analysis of early post-hatch otolith development in larval California grunion, Leuresthes tenuis. MS Thesis, California State University, Long Beach. 33 pp.
  • Dugan, J. E., D. M. Hubbard, M. D. McCrary & M. O. Pierson. 2003. The response of macrofauna communities and shorebirds to macrophyte wrack subsidies on exposed sandy beaches of southern California. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 58: 25-40.
  • Flick, R. E. & L. C. Ewing. 2009. Sand volume needs of southern California beaches as a function of future sea-level rise rates. Shore & Beach 77: 36.
  • Gaida, I. H., D. G. Buth, S. D. Matthews, A. L. Snow, S. B. Luo & S. Kutsuna. 2003. Allozymic variation and population structure of the California grunion, Leuresthes tenuis (Atheriniformes: Atherinopsidae). Copeia 2003: 594-600.
  • Gregory, P. A. 2001. Grunion. Pp. 246-247 in California’s Living Marine Resources: A Status Report. W. S. Leet, C. M. Dewees, R. Klingbeill & E. J. Larson (Eds.). California Department of Fish and Game, Sacramento, 592 pp.   
  • Griem, J. N. & K. L. M. Martin. 2000. Wave action: the environmental trigger for hatching in the California grunion Leuresthes tenius (Teleostei: Atherinopsidae).  Marine Biology 137: 177-181.
  • Hastings, P. A. & L. T. Findley. 2007. Marine fishes of the upper gulf biosphere reserve, Gulf of California. Pp. 364-382 in Dry Borders, Great Natural Reserves of the Sonoran Desert, R. Felger and B. Broyles (eds.). University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.
  • Horn, M. H., A. K. Gawlicka, D. P. German, E. A. Logothetis, J. W. Cavanaugh &K. S. Boyle. 2006. Structure and function of the stomachless digestive system of three related species of New World silverside fishes (Atherinopsidae) representing herbivory, omnivory, and carnivory. Marine Biology 149: 1237-1245.
  • Johnson, P. B., K. L. Martin, T. L. Vandergon, R. L. Honeycutt, R. S. Burton & A. Fry. 2009. Microsatellite and mitochondrial genetic comparisons between northern and southern populations of California Grunion Leuresthes tenuis. Copeia 2009: 467-476.
  • Martin, K. L. M. 2007. Non-Tidal Rhythms. Pp. 467-468 In:  M. Denny and S. Gaines (eds.), Encyclopedia of Tidepools.  University of California Press. 
  • Martin, K. L. M. & D. L. Swiderski. 2001. Beach spawning in fishes: Phylogenetic tests of hypotheses. American Zoologist 41: 526-537.
  • Martin, K., T. Speer-Blank, R. Pommerening, J. Flannery & K. Carpenter. 2006. Does beach grooming harm grunion eggs? Shore & Beach 74(1): 17-22.
  • Martin, K., A. Staines, M. Studer, C. Stivers, C. Moravek, P. Johnson & J. Flannery. 2007. Grunion Greeters in California: Beach Spawning Fish, Coastal Stewardship, Beach Management and Ecotourism. Pp. 73-86 in Lück, M.; Gräupl, A.; Auyong, J.; Miller, M.L. & M.B. Orams (eds.): Proceedings of the 5th International Coastal & Marine Tourism Congress: Balancing Marine Tourism, Development and Sustainability. Auckland, New Zealand: New Zealand Tourism Research Institute.
  • Martin, K. L. M., C. R. Van Winkle, J. E. Drais & H. Lakisic. 2004. Beach spawning fishes, terrestrial eggs, and air breathing. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 77: 750-759.
  • Martin K. L. M., C. L. Moravek & J. A. Flannery. 2009. Embryonic staging series for the beach spawning, terrestrially incubating California grunion Leuresthes tenuis with comparisons to other Atherinomorpha. Journal of Fish Biology 75: 17-38. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8649.2009.02260.x
  • Matsumoto, J. K. & K. L. M. Martin. 2008. Lethal and sublethal effects of altered sand salinity on embryos of beach-spawning California Grunion. Copeia 2008: 483-490.
  • Montgomery, W. L. 2002. Boyd W. Walker 1917-2001. Copeia 2002(4): 1179-1182.
  • Moreno, V. & Yeomans, V. 2001. Description of the osteological development of the caudal complex of laboratory-reared larvae of grunion Leuresthes tenuis (Ayres, 1860). SIDALC.net.
  • O’Brien, J. W. & M. S. Oliphant. 2001. Yellowfin croaker. Pp.232-233 in California's Living Marine Resources: A Status Report. W. S. Leet, C. M. Dewees, R. Klingbeill, and E. J. Larson (Eds.). California Department of Fish and Game, Sacramento, 592 pp.   
  • Orgeron, M. & S. Elsheimer. 2007. “Something different in science films”: The Moody Institute of Science and the canned missionary movement.  Project MUSE
  • Pierotti, R. 2010. Indigenous Knowledge, Ecology, and Evolutionary Biology. Routledge Press, 528 pp.
  • Riedel, R. & B. A. Costa-Pierce. 2001. Review of the fisheries of the Salton Sea, California, USA: Past, present and future. Reviews in Fisheries Science 9: 239-270.
  • Robbins, E. 2006. Essential Fish Habitat in Santa Monica Bay, San Pedro Bay, and San Diego Bay: A Reference Guide for Managers. MS Thesis, Duke University, 129 pp.
  • Roberts, D., R. N. Lea & K. L. M. Martin. 2007.  First record of the occurrence of the California Grunion, Leuresthes tenuis, in Tomales Bay, California; a northern extension of the species.  California Fish & Game 93:107-110. 
  • Smyder, E. A. & K. L. M. Martin. 2002. Temperature effects on egg survival and hatching during the extended incubation period of California grunion, Leuresthes tenuis. Copeia 2002: 313-320.  
  • Speer-Blank, T. & K. L. M. Martin. 2004. Hatching events in the California Grunion, Leuresthes tenuis. Copeia 2004: 21-27. 
  • Valdéz-Moreno, M. & L. Vásquez-Yeomans. 2001. Description of the osteological development of the caudal complex of laboratory-reared larvae of grunion Leuresthes tenuis (Ayres, 1860). Bulletin of Marine Science 68(2): 351-356.
  • Vasquez-Yeomans, L., M. Valdez-Moreno & W. L. Richards. 2000. Description of laboratory -reared larvae of California grunion and comparisons with the larvae of topsmelt and jacksmelt. Calif. Fish and Game 86: 175-185.
  • Yoklavich, M. A., G. M. Cailliet, D. S. Oxman, J. P. Barry & D. C. Lindquist. 2002.  Fishes.  Pp. 163-185 in Changes in a California Estuary: A Profile of Elkhorn Slough.  J. Caffrey, M. Brown, W. B. Tyler & M. Silberstein (Eds.), Elkhorn Slough Foundation, Moss Landing, CA.
  • Watson, W., R. L. Charter & H. G. Moser. 2002. Ichthyoplankton and station data for manta (surface) tows taken on California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations Survey Cruises in 2000. NOAA-TM-NMFS-SWFSC-336. 46 pp. 
Grunion Science 2011 to present
  • Aryafar, H. 2011. Effects of delayed hatching on larval length, energy reserves, swimming activity, and survival in the California Grunion Leuresthes tenuis. MS Thesis, California State University, Fullerton. 53 pp.
  • Aryafar, H., Carrillo, A., Berquist, R., Frank, L. R., Forsgren, K. & Dickson, K. A. 2019. Description of a male urogenital papilla in the California grunion, Leuresthes tenuis, a beach-spawning marine silverside fish. Bulletin, Southern California Academy of Sciences, 118(2), 102-108.
  • Brown, E. E., H. Baumann & D. O. Conover. 2012. Absence of countergradient and cogradient variation in an oceanic silverside, the California Grunion Leuresthes tenuis. Marine Ecology Progress Series 461: 175-186.
  • Brown, E. E., Baumann, H. & Conover, D. O. 2014. Temperature and photoperiod effects on sex determination in a fish. Journal of experimental marine biology and ecology, 461, 39-43.
  • Byrne, R., G. Bernardi & J. Avise. 2013. Spatiotemporal genetic structure in a protected marine fish, the California Grunion (Leuresthes tenuis), and relatedness in the genus Leuresthes. Journal of Heredity 104 (4): 521-531. doi: 10.1093/jhered/est024
  • Carrillo, A. 2013. Effects of extended embryonic incubation on skeletal development, feeding rates, and growth of larval California Grunion, Leuresthes tenuis. MS Thesis, California State University, Fullerton. 62 pp.
  • Carrillo Munoz, N., Dickson, K. A. & Walter, R. P. 2020. The mitogenome of the California grunion (Leuresthes tenuis). Mitochondrial DNA Part B, 5(2), 1138-1140.
  • Carter, A. L. 2015. Partial characterization of the chorion and choriolytic enzyme of the California grunion (Leuresthes tenuis) Master's thesis, California State University, Fullerton.
  • Carter, A. L. & Dickson, K. A. 2014. Changes in the chorion due to fertilization and extended incubation in the California grunion, Leuresthes tenuis. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences, 113(2), 131-132.
  • Cavanagh, J. W., Martinez, K. M., Higgins, B. A. & Horn, M. H. 2014. Does the beach-spawning grunion eat its own eggs? Eighth graders use inquiry-based investigation to collect real data in a university laboratory. The American Biology Teacher, 76(3), 178-182.
  • Chhor, J. T. 2021. Effects of microplastic exposure on the growth and development of larval California Grunion (Leuresthes tenuis). MS Thesis, California State University, Long Beach.
  • Corona, M. & Kültz, D. 2024. The mpacts of osmotic stress during the critical window of development on protein and histone PTM alterations in California grunion. Physiology, 39(S1), 1004.
  • Foreman K., D. Hubbard, K. K. Johnston & K. Martin. 2015. State of the Bay Report: Habitat Conditions: Sandy Shores. Urban Coast 5(1): 69-84.
  • Fredell, A. 2014. Natal tags can elucidate larval dispersal in the beach spawning California grunion, Leuresthes tenuis (Teleostei: Atherinopsidae). MS Thesis, California State University, Fullerton.
  • Hernández-Alvarez, A., Carmona, R. & Arce, N. 2013. Feeding ecology of Red Knots Calidris canutus roselaari at Golfo de Santa Clara, Sonora, Mexico. Wader Study Group Bull. 120: 194–201.
  • Higgins, B. A. 2012. Suction among pickers: Jaw mechanics and dietary breadth in the beach spawning grunion sisters (Leuresthes) compared to their relatives (Teleostei: Atherinopsidae). MS Thesis, California State University, Fullerton.
  • Higgins, B. A. & M. H. Horn. 2014. Suction among pickers: Jaw mechanics, dietary breadth and feeding behavior in beach-spawning Leuresthes spp compared with their relatives. Journal of Fish Biology 84: 1689-1707.
  • Ishimatsu A., V. Mai & K. L. M. Martin. 2018. Invited Review: Patterns of fish reproduction at the interface between air and water. Integrative and Comparative Biology 58 (6): 1064–1085.
  • Johnson, D. W. 2022. Selection on offspring size and contemporary evolution under ocean acidification. Nature Climate Change, 12(8), 757-760.
  • Johnson, D. W., J. T. Chhor, C. E. Shelley, & E. J. Siegfried, 2024. Indirect costs of reproduction and the tradeoff between offspring size and number: a framework illustrated by fitness costs and benefits of ovarian fluid. Evolution 78 (7), 1248-1260.
  • Jones, A., Knapp, H., Peacock, A., Wakamatsu, L. & Holt, B. 2018. Predicting Grunion Migration Patterns and Spawning Areas in Response to Changes in California's Oceans by Coupling Satellite and In Situ Data. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts (Vol. 2018, pp. OS13D-1538).
  • King P. G., C. Nelsen, J. E. Dugan, D. M. Hubbard & K. L. Martin. 2018. Valuing beach ecosystems in an age of retreat. Shore & Beach 86 (4): 1-15. 
  • Li, J., Hamar, J. C., Dickson, K. A. & Kültz, D. 2018. Derivation and characterization of a California grunion (Leuresthes tenuis) embryonic cell line. The FASEB Journal, 32, 622-1.
  • Loew, E. R., McAlary, F. A. & McFarland, W. N. 2021. Ultraviolet visual sensitivity in the larvae of two species of marine atherinid fishes. In Zooplankton (pp. 195-209). Routledge.
  • Martin, K. L. 2014. Review paper: Theme and variations: amphibious air-breathing intertidal fishes. Journal of Fish Biology 84, 577-602. doi: 10.1111/jfb.12270
  • Martin, K. L. M. 2015. Beach Spawning Fishes: Reproduction in an Endangered Ecosystem. Oxford, UK: Taylor & Francis Group, CRC Press, 199 pp. ISBN: 978-1-4822-0797-2. Also available as an e-Book.
  • Martin, K. L. 2015. State of the Bay Report. “Biodiversity: California Grunion.” Urban Coast 5(1): 150-156. ISSN 2151-612X.
  • Martin, K. 2015. Science Foundation Chapter 3, Appendix 3.1 – Case Study California Grunion (Leuresthes tenuis). Pp. 3.1i-iv in The Baylands and Climate Change: What We Can Do. Baylands Ecosystem Habitat Goals Science Update, California State Coastal Conservancy.
  • Martin K. 2019. The great grunion run: Monitoring grunion runs to inform conservation. Research OUTREACH (110). https://researchoutreach.org/articles/thegreat-grunion-run-monitoring-grunion-runs-to-inform-conservation/ 
  • Martin K. L. M. & L. C. Adams. 2020. Case Study: Effects of repeated sand replenishment projects on runs of a beach-spawning fish, the California Grunion. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering 8, 178 DOI:10.3390/jmse8030178.
  • Martin K. L. & A. L. Carter. 2013. Brave New Propagules: Terrestrial Embryos in Anamniotic Eggs. Integrative and Comparative Biology 53: 233-247. doi:10.1093/icb/ict018.
  • Martin, K. L. M. & J. E. Podrabsky. 2017. Hit Pause: Developmental arrest in annual killifishes and their close relatives. Developmental Dynamics: DOI 10.1002/DVDY.24507.
  • Martin, K. L. M. & J. G. Raim. 2014. Avian predators target beach spawning marine fish, California Grunion, Leuresthes tenuis. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 113: 187-199. 
  • Martin K. L. M. & M. Studer. 2022. Citizen Science on the beach: Grunion Greeters in California. Invited paper for Special issue on “How Citizen Science and Non-Traditional Data Sources can be Better Incorporated into Fisheries Stock Assessments and Management.” Fisheries 47(11): 483-490. https://doi.org/10.1002/fsh.10811
  • Martin, K. L. & G. Wang. 2015. State of the Bay Report. “Looking Ahead: Sediment Management.” Urban Coast 5(1): 175-179. ISSN 2151-612X.
  • Martin K. L., K. Bailey, C. Moravek & K. Carlson. 2011. Taking the plunge: California Grunion embryos emerge rapidly with environmentally cued hatching (ECH). Integrative and Comparative Biology 51: 26-37. doi:10.1093/icb/icr037
  • Martin, K. L. M., K. A. Hieb & D. A. Roberts. 2013. A southern California icon surfs north: local ecotype of California Grunion Leuresthes tenuis (Atherinopsidae) revealed by multiple approaches during temporary habitat expansion into San Francisco Bay. Copeia 2013: 729-739. Doi 10.1643/CI-13-036.
  • Martin K. L. M., C. L. Moravek, A.D. Martin & R. D. Martin. 2011. Community based monitoring improves management of essential fish habitat for beach spawning California Grunion. In Bayed A. (ed.), Sandy Beaches and Coastal Zone Management – Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Sandy Beaches, Rabat, Morocco. Travaux de l’Institut Scientifique 2011(6): 65-72.
  • Martin K. L. M., C. L. Moravek & A. J. Walker. 2011. Waiting for a sign: Extended incubation postpones larval stage in the beach spawning California Grunion Leuresthes tenuis (Ayres). Environmental Biology of Fishes 91: 63-70.  doi:/10.1007/s10641-010-9760-4
  • Martin, K. L., Reed, D. R., Simmons, D. J., Steers, J. E. & Studer, M. 2022. The beach ecology coalition: enhancing ecosystem conservation and beach management to balance natural resource protection and recreational use. In Sandy Beaches as Endangered Ecosystems (pp. 232-250). CRC Press.
  • Martin, K. L. M., E. A. Pierce, V. V. Quach & M. Studer. 2020. Population trends of beach-spawning California Grunion Leuresthes tenuis monitored by citizen scientists. ICES Journal of Marine Science 77(6); 2226-2233.
  • Martin K. L. M., D. Witting & R. Donohoe. 2019. The 2015 Refugio Beach Oil Spill. Field and laboratory assessment of injury to California Grunion Leuresthes tenuis. Appendix G-2, Refugio Beach Oil Spill Trustees (eds), Refugio Beach Oil Spill Draft Damage Assessment and Restoration Plan/Environmental Assessment. California Department of Fish and Wildlife, California State Lands Commission, California Department of Parks and Recreation, Regents of the University of California, U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=178498&inline  
  • Moravek C. L. & K. L. Martin. 2011. Life goes on: Delayed hatching, extended incubation, and heterokairy in development of embryonic California Grunion, Leuresthes tenuis. Copeia 2011(2): 308-314. DOI 10.1643/CG-10-164.
  • Pan, Y. J., Déposé, E., Souissi, A., Hénard, S., Schaadt, M., Mastro, E. & Souissi, S. 2020. Assessments of first feeding protocols on the larviculture of California grunion Leuresthes tenuis (Osteichthyes: Atherinopsidae). Aquaculture Research, 51(7).
  • Passarelli, B. 2021. Metazoan parasites of the California grunion Leuresthes tenuis and other New World silversides. Doctoral Dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles.
  • Sandrozinski, A. 2013. California Grunion. Status of the Fisheries Report, an Update Through 2011. California Department of Fish & Wildlife, Sacramento, CA.
  • Santos, A. J., Frederick, A. R., Higgins, B. A., Carrillo, A., Carter, A. L., Dickson, K. A., ... & Horn, M. H. 2018. The beach‐spawning California grunion Leuresthes tenuis eats and digests conspecific eggs. Journal of Fish Biology, 93(2), 282-289.
  • Shelley, C. E. 2021. Larval Fish in a Warming Ocean: A Bioenergetic Study of Growth of California Grunion, Leuresthes tenuis. Master’s Thesis, California State University, Long Beach.
  • Shelley, C. E. & D. W. Johnson. 2022. Larval fish in a warming ocean: a bioenergetic study of temperature-dependent growth and assimilation efficiency. Marine Ecology Progress Series 691, 97-114
  • Siegfried, E. & D. W. Johnson. 2023. Effects of ocean acidification and warming on the specific dynamic action of California Grunion (Leuresthes tenuis) larvae. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 563, 151893.
  • Siegfried, E. & D. W. Johnson, 2023. Experimental ocean acidification and food limitation reveals altered energy budgets and synergistic effects on mortality of larvae of a coastal fish. Frontiers in Marine Science 10, 1240404.
  • Simons, A. L., Martin, K. L. & Longcore, T. 2022. Determining the effects of artificial light at night on the distributions of western snowy plovers (Charadrius nivosus nivosus) and California grunion (Leuresthes tenuis) in Southern California. Journal of Coastal Research, 38(2), 302-309.
  • Smith, J. 2023. Seasonal Dynamics and Temperature Effects on Survival, Hatching Success, and Morphological Development in Grunion Embryos (Leuresthes tenuis). Master's thesis, California State University, Stanislaus.
  • Tasoff, A. J. 2017. Quantifying the Genetic Capacity of California Grunion (Leuresthes tenuis) to Adapt to Ocean Acidification. Master’s Thesis, California State University, Long Beach.
  • Tasoff, A. J. & Johnson, D. W. 2019. Can larvae of a marine fish adapt to ocean acidification? Evaluating the evolutionary potential of California Grunion (Leuresthes tenuis). Evolutionary Applications, 12(3), 560-571.
  • Uy, C. A. & Johnson, D. W. 2022. Effects of microplastics on the feeding rates of larvae of a coastal fish: direct consumption, trophic transfer, and effects on growth and survival. Marine Biology, 169(2), 27.
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