bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.02.04.934281; this version posted February 4, 2020. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. 1 First study on age and growth of the deep-water Goblin Shark, Mitsukurina owstoni 2 (Jordan, 1898) 3 4 Fabio P. Caltabellotta1*†, Zachary A. Siders1†, Gregor Cailliet2, Fabio S. Motta3, Otto B. F. 5 Gadig4 6 7 Affiliations: 8 1 Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences Program, School of Forest Resources and Conservation, 9 University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA 10 2 Pacific Shark Research Center, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, Moss Landing, CA, USA 11 3 Marine Ecology and Conservation Lab (LABECMar), Federal University of São Paulo, Santos, 12 Brazil 13 4 Elasmobranch Lab, Biosciences Institute, Sao Paulo State University, São Vicente, Brazil 14 15 *Corresponding Author: 16 Fabio P. Caltabellotta, Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences Program, School of Forest Resources and 17 Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA. 18 Email:
[email protected] 19 20 †Equal Contributions 21 22 Additional keywords: Mitsukurina owstoni, Deep-water elasmobranchs, Bayesian age-growth, 23 Goblin Shark 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1 bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.02.04.934281; this version posted February 4, 2020. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity.