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Dante Fenolio

San Antonio Zoo

Department of Conservation and Research

3903 N. St. Mary’s Street
San Antonio, TX  78212  

dantefenolio@sazoo.org

Project List:

Deep-Pelagic Nekton Dynamics of the Gulf of Mexico (DEEPEND)

Year 5-7 Consortia Grants (RFP-IV)Role: Co-Principal Investigator, Outreach Team

Publications & Presentations:

Journal Articles - 6

2020

McKeon, S., Fenolio, D., Dreelin, A., Shaw, D., Kobrinsky, Z., & Meyer, C. (2020). NextGen Natural History: New Technologies for Classical Natural History Questions. Journal of Natural History Education and Experience, 14, 6–12.
Moore, J. A., Fenolio, D. B., Cook, A. B., & Sutton, T. T. (2020). Hiding in Plain Sight: Elopomorph Larvae Are Important Contributors to Fish Biodiversity in a Low-Latitude Oceanic Ecosystem. Front. Mar. Sci., 7.

2019

Baker, L. J., Freed, L. L., Easson, C. G., Lopez, J. V., Fenolio, D., Sutton, T. T., et al. (2019). Diverse deep-sea anglerfishes share a genetically reduced luminous symbiont that is acquired from the environment. eLIFE, 8, e47606.
Freed, L. L., Easson, C., Baker, L. J., Fenolio, D., Sutton, T. T., Khan, Y., et al. (2019). Characterization of the microbiome and bioluminescent symbionts across life stages of Ceratioid Anglerfishes of the Gulf of Mexico. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 95(10).
Woodstock, M. S., GoLightly, C., Fenolio, D., & Moore, J. A. (2019). Larsonia pterophylla (Cnidaria, Pandeidae) Parasitic on Two Leptocephali: Paraconger sp. (Congridae) and Callechelyini gen. sp. (Ophichthidae) in the Gulf of Mexico. Gulf and Caribbean Research, 30(1), SC-7–SC10.

2018

Hendry, T. A., Freed, L. L., Fader, D., Fenolio, D., Sutton, T. T., Lopez, J. V., et al. (2018). Ongoing Transposon-Mediated Genome Reduction in the Luminous Bacterial Symbionts of Deep-Sea Ceratioid Anglerfishes. mBio, 9(3).

Book Whole - 1

2016

Fenolio, D. (2016). Life in the Dark: Illuminating Biodiversity in the shadowy Haunts of Planet Earth. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Conference Presentations - 15

2020

Musgrave, R., Judkins, H., Cook, A., Fenolio, D., Frank, T., Myers, M., et al. (2020). Inviting Learners to the DEEPEND: A Team Approach to Successful Outreach and Education. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2020. Tampa, FL : 02/03/20-02/06/20.

2018

Lopez, J., Freed, L., Easson, C., Sutton, T., & Fenolio, D. (2018). Microbiomes and Bacterial Symbionts of Deep Sea Anglerfish in the Gulf of Mexico. In 15th Deep-Sea Biology Symposium. Monterey, CA : 09/09/18-09/14/18: Poster.

2017

Fenolio, D., & Sandoval, N. (2017). Considerations for photographic documentation of pelagic fauna- lessons learned during DEEPEND. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2017. New Orleans, LA : 02/06/17-02/09/17: Poster.
Freed, L., Fenolio, D., Easson, C., Hendry, T., Sutton, T., & Lopez, J. (2017). Anglerfish Bacterial Symbionts and Seawater from the Northern Gulf of Mexico. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2017. New Orleans, LA : 02/06/17-02/09/17: Poster.
Sutton, T., Cook, A., Boswell, K., Bracken-Grissom, H., deRada, S., English, D., et al. (2017). Research in the Gulf of Mexico; The DEEPEND Consortium. In ASLO 2017 Aquatic Sciences Meeting. Honolulu, HI : 02/26/17-03/03/17: Poster.
Sutton, T., Cook, A., Boswell, K., Bracken-Grissom, H., deRada, S., English, D., et al. (2017). DEEPEND Consortium Science poster for Research Board Reception. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2017. New Orleans, LA : 02/06/17-02/09/17: Poster.
Sutton, T., Judkins, H., Cook, A., Fenolio, D., Frank, T., Musgrave, R., et al. (2017). DEEPEND Consortium E/O poster for RB event. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2017. New Orleans, LA : 02/06/17-02/09/17: Poster.
Sutton, T., Moore, J., Cook, A., Bernard, A., Boswell, K., Eytan, R., et al. (2017). The epi-to-bathypelagic ichthyofauna of the Gulf of Mexico: recent surveys reveal exceptional diversity and endemism, with 180 new species records. In Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. Austin, TX : 07/12/17-07/16/17.

2016

Sutton, T., Boswell, K., Bracken-Grissom, H., Cook, A., deRada, S., English, D., et al. (2016). DEEPEND: Deep Pelagic Nekton Dynamics of the Gulf of Mexico. In Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. New Orleans, LA : 07/06/16-07/10/16: Poster.
Sutton, T., Boswell, K., Bracken-Grissom, H., Cook, A., deRada, S., English, D., et al. (2016). DEEPEND: Deep Pelagic Nekton Dynamics of the Gulf of Mexico. In National Academies Keck Futures Initiative (NAKFI) Conference: Discovering the Deep Blue Sea. Irvine, CA : 11/09/16-11/12/16: Poster.

2015

Sutton, T. T., Boswell, K., Bracken-Grissom, H., Cook, A. B., deRada, S., English, D., et al. (2015). Dynamics of epi-, meso- and bathypelagic fish assemblages: A Gulf of Mexico case study and new research initiative (DEEPEND). In 2015 Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. Reno, NV : 07/16/15-07/19/15.
Sutton, T. T., Boswell, K., Bracken-Grissom, H., Cook, A. B., deRada, S., English, D., et al. (2015). Understanding deep-pelagic ecosystem dynamics: A new research initiative in the Gulf of Mexico (DEEPEND). In Fish at Night: an international symposium. Miami, FL : 11/17/15-11/20/15.
Sutton, T. T., Cook, A. B., Boswell, K., Bracken-Grissom, H., deRada, S., English, D., et al. (2015). DEEPEND: Deep-Pelagic Nekton Dynamics of the Gulf of Mexico. In 2015 Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. Reno, NV : 07/16/15-07/19/15: Poster.
Sutton, T. T., Cook, A. B., Boswell, K., Bracken-Grissom, H., deRada, S., English, D., et al. (2015). DEEPEND: Deep-Pelagic Nekton Dynamics of the Gulf of Mexico. In 14th Deep-Sea Biology Symposium. Aveiro, Portugal : 08/31/15-09/04/15: Poster.
Sutton, T. T., Cook, A. B., Boswell, K., Bracken-Grissom, H., deRada, S., English, D., et al. (2015). Understanding deep-pelagic ecosystem variability in an age of increasing deep-ocean commercial activity: A Gulf of Mexico case study and new research initiative (DEEPEND). In 14th Deep-Sea Biology Symposium. Aveiro, Portugal : 08/31/15-09/04/15.