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ArticleEcology and evolution2026

Is Blood Thicker Than Water? The Influence of Kin Within a Bull Shark Social Network.

Natasha D Marosi, Darren P Croft, David M P Jacoby, Samuel Ellis, Andrew M Griffiths

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Article in Ecology and evolution, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 authors.

Natasha D MarosiCentre for Research in Animal Behaviour, College of Health and Life Sciences University of Exeter Exeter UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0003-7090-5972
Darren P CroftCentre for Research in Animal Behaviour, College of Health and Life Sciences University of Exeter Exeter UK.
David M P JacobyLancaster Environment Centre Lancaster University Lancaster UK.
Samuel EllisCentre for Research in Animal Behaviour, College of Health and Life Sciences University of Exeter Exeter UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9019-6040
Andrew M GriffithsDepartment of Biosciences University of Exeter Exeter UK.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The influence of kinship on social structure (what we novelly refer to as "kinfluence") has been studied extensively within terrestrial taxa yet remains poorly understood in marine systems. While kin-based associations have been explored in teleost fish and cetaceans, few have investigated this within elasmobranchs, and none have combined fine-scale social behavior with both genomic relatedness and categorical kinship inference. This study utilized the Shark Reef Marine Reserve in Fiji, a site where a population of adult bull sharks (

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elasmobranchgenotypingkinshiprelatednesssingle nucleotide polymorphismssocial network

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