![Dr Catherine Jones Dr Catherine Jones](/img/200x200/staffpages/uploads/nhi683/Cath_Jones_photo_1_2.jpg)
Senior Lecturer
- About
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- Email Address
- c.s.jones@abdn.ac.uk
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 272403
- School/Department
- School of Biological Sciences
Latest Publications
Genome analysis reveals three distinct lineages of the cosmopolitan white shark
Current Biology, vol. 34, no. 15, pp. 3582-3590.e4Contributions to Journals: ArticlesEstimating fishing effort and LPUE for the Scottish Brown Crab (Cancer pagurus) trap fishery using VMS and observer data
Fisheries Research, vol. 274, 106974Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2024.106974
Mitochondrial haplotypes reveal low diversity and restricted connectivity in the critically endangered batoid population of a Marine Protected Area
Marine Ecology Progress Series, vol. 731, pp. 279-291Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/meps14242
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/20207/1/m14242_advview.pdf
Characteristics of the spiny dogfish (Squalus acanthias) nuclear genome
G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics Mission, vol. 13, no. 9, jkad146Contributions to Journals: ArticlesFeeding ecology of broadbill swordfish (Xiphias gladius) in the California current
PloS ONE, vol. 18, no. 2, e0258011Contributions to Journals: Articles
- Research
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Research Overview
My research focuses on the application of molecular genetics and genomics to the ecology and conservation of endangered species. As molecular ecologists we use molecular data in elusive marine species to assist conservation management questions, particularly in top predators, the elasmobranchs. Yet the biology of long-lived and enigmatic ‘flagship’ species such as the Great white, basking shark and Flapper skate are surprisingly poorly understood. We seek to comprehend how genetic diversity evolves in these small, highly vagile populations, the role that local adaptation plays and its consequence for conservation biology and management, along with the impacts of renewable energy facilities. We utilize methods such as DNA profiling (genetic tagging) through to next generation sequencing, integrating these data with seascape analyses (GIS) in an effort to provide comprehensive information for biodiversity management and conservation, such as implementation of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs).
Additionally I seek to understand the invasive nature of several Arionid slugs, vectors of many plant diseases, which is of fundamental importance for national and international crop security. Similarly understanding the evolution of host-parasite interactions in several aquatic systems (including the medically important freshwater snail intermediate host of trematodes, Biomphalaria glabrata and the ectoparasitism in commercially important Atlantic salmon by sealice or the monogenean, Gyrodactylus salaris) is of fundamental importance.
Funding and Grants
Recent grants:
2020-2024. Sea Our Seas Foundation (SOSF) Biennial Keystone grant award: ‘Genetic monitoring tool for North-East Atlantic Elasmobranchs to assist conservation and management’. https://saveourseas.com/project/a-genetic-tool-to-help-monitor-sharks-and-skates-in-the-north-east-atlantic/
2018-2023. Nature.Scot ‘Assessing MPA efficacy and adaptive management of the common skate’. (with Peter Wright, Marine Scotland & David Donnan Nature.Scot)
2017-2019. Scottish Universities Life Sciences Alliance (SULSA) EU Partnership Building (PEER) co-PI, ‘International Marine Connectivity Network’, co-PI Oscar Gaggiotti (St. Andrews).
2016-2018. NERC Biomolecular Analysis Facility (NBAF) NBAF965 ‘Genetic structure and connectivity in the endangered yet potentially commercially valuable North Atlantic porbeagle shark: informing conservation and towards sustainable fisheries management.’
2013-2017. Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH). ‘Genetic monitoring of the basking shark, Cetorhinus maximus in Scottish waters to address environmental impacts; effective population size, population connectivity and group kinship’.
2015-2016. NERC Biomolecular Analysis Facility (NBAF) NBAF942 'Genetic monitoring to assess the potential for anthropogenic impacts in the endangered common skate in the north east Atlantic: genetic diversity, connectivity and effective population size'.
2014-2016. NERC Biomolecular Analysis Facility (NBAF) NBAF765 ‘Stock structure, residency and kinship of white shark aggregations along the South African coast.’
2014-2015. NERC Biomolecular Analysis Facility (NBAF) NBAF764 ‘Baseline data for assessing environmental impacts on basking sharks in Scottish waters: effective population size, connectivity and group kinship.'
2013-2015. NERC Biomolecular Analysis Facility (NBAF) NBAF723 'Population structure, kinship and the demographic history of the basking shark, Cetorhinus maximus'.
- Publications
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Antipodean white sharks on a Mediterranean walkabout?: Historical dispersal leads to genetic discontinuity and an endangered anomalous population
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. B, Biological Sciences, vol. 278, no. 1712, pp. 1679-1686Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2010.1856
Genotypic and phenotypic correlates with proliferative kidney disease-induced mortality in Atlantic salmon
Diseases of Aquatic Organisms, vol. 89, no. 2, pp. 125-135Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/dao02191
Low genetic diversity in a snail intermediate host (Biomphalaria pfeifferi Krass, 1848) and schistosomiasis transmission in the Senegal River Basin
Molecular Ecology, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 241-256Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-294X.2009.04463.x
Size-dependent growth of individual Atlantic salmon Salmo salar alevins from hatch to first feeding
Journal of Fish Biology, vol. 75, no. 10, pp. 2820-2831Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8649.2009.02497.x
Concordance of genetic and fin photo identification in the great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias, off Mossel Bay, South Africa
Marine Biology, vol. 156, no. 10, pp. 2199-2207Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-009-1233-y
Biogeographical patterns of marine larval trematode parasites in two intermediate snail hosts in Europe
Journal of Biogeography, vol. 36, no. 8, pp. 1493-1501Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2699.2008.02066.x
Distance decay of similarity among parasite communities of three marine invertebrate hosts
Oecologia, vol. 160, no. 1, pp. 163-173Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-009-1276-2
First results from satellite-linked archival tagging of porbeagle shark, Lamna nasus: area fidelity, wider-scale movements and plasticity in diel depth changes
Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, vol. 370, no. 1-2, pp. 64-74Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jembe.2008.12.002
Of mice and (Viking?) men: phylogeography of British and Irish house mice
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. B, Biological Sciences, vol. 276, no. 1655, pp. 201-207Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2008.0958
Biomphalaria glabrata transcriptome: cDNA microarray profiling identifies resistant- and susceptible-specific gene expression in haemocytes from snail strains exposed to Schistosoma mansoni
BMC Genomics, vol. 9, 634Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-9-634
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/3829/1/Biomphalaria_Glabrata.pdf