Gary Longo

🚨 New Paper Alert!🚨 In the early stages of assessing genetic population structure in Pacific Sardine, we detected Japanese Sardine along the west coast of North America for the first time! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/me… @Wes_Larson1 @EllaAdams27 @NOAAFisheries @salkinstitute 1/n

support panmixia for Pacific Sardine in the North Pacific suggesting that multiple management units have been defined for a single biological population. 5/5

individuals collected from Oregon, U.S. to the Gulf of California, M.X. Although we found evidence for genomic structural variation on several chromosomes (i.e., inversions), none of the putative inversions showed any evidence of geographic differentiation and our results 4/5

🚨New paper alert!🚨 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ev… Out today in @EvolAppJournal, we use population genomics to show Pacific Sardine (Sardinops sagax) in the North Pacific are characterized by panmixia. @NOAAFisheries @WesLarson1 1/5

Who knew such cuteness was lurking in the eastern Pacific abyssal zone? This is the bumpy snailfish, Careproctus colliculi n. sp. described by Gerringer et al. in Ichs & Herps., sequences now in GenBank. doi.org/10.1643/i20240…

Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Scopes trial telling students in central Tennessee about their inner fish. I’m so grateful to the high school and middle school teachers who brought their students from small schools to the event (some from almost an hr away).

NOAA's Deep-CRES project, funded by @noaacoastalsci, is uncovering the secrets of NMS of American Samoa's mesophotic coral ecosystems while inspiring the next generation. Learn more: sanctuaries.noaa.gov/news/2025/twil… 📸: Brian Greene; Carlos Alberto Tramonte; and Isabel Halatuituia/NOAA

📢New paper out in @molecology !📢 We provide evidence of cryptic/incipient speciation in the Black Surfperch occurring on coastal islands. Popgen and phylogenomic methods show 5 distinct groups and evidence of reproductive barriers. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/me…

Scripps Oceanography's Ben @Frable joins the Batiquitos Lagoon Foundation to share more about the fascinating deep-sea specimens known as #oarfish, and why they're washing up on California beaches. 📅 July 19 🕙 10 AM 📍 Batiquitos Lagoon Nature Center sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/07/09/com…

If you want to hear about how discovered Japanese Sardine in the Eastern Pacific check out this podcast from NOAA Fisheries! And read more about it in our paper in @molecology here doi.org/10.1111/mec.17…

New paper I helped out with!

“Our salmon are coming home. Klamath Basin tribes fought for decades to make this day a reality because our future generations deserve to inherit a healthier river from the headwaters to the sea.” - Yurok Joseph L. James, @WildlifeMag discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/f…

Some more cool press for our paper describing the detection of Japanese Sardine in the California Current in the Eastern Pacific! doi.org/10.1111/mec.17… Researchers: Sardine species from near Japan found off US West Coast | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/ne…

and @jjminich !

🚨 New Paper Alert!🚨 In the early stages of assessing genetic population structure in Pacific Sardine, we detected Japanese Sardine along the west coast of North America for the first time! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/me… @Wes_Larson1 @EllaAdams27 @NOAAFisheries @salkinstitute 1/n

Really cool story here on sardine genomics which uncovered an unexpected Japanese species in the mix of the California sardine population made possible by a new chromosome level genome and low coverage pop genetics !

@molecology @seattletimes Also check out the NOAA web story! fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-story/…

Read the open access article in @molecology and check out the write up in the @seattletimes ! seattletimes.com/seattle-news/c…

@evo_fish @Wes_Larson1 @EllaAdams27 @NOAAFisheries @salkinstitute You're always asking the important questions, Moises!