Publications

Marine Ecology and Mega-fauna Conservation:

  • Al-Fares, E. A., & Al-Zaidan, A. S. (2025). Occurrence of macro-and microplastics in sediment and mudskippers from Ashish Al-Doha, Kuwait. Kuwait Journal of Science, 100423.

  • Kawiyani, R., Ben-Hasan, A., Mohsen, K., & Almojil, D. (2024). Status, threats, and conservation considerations of selected marine habitats and organisms in the Arabian/Persian Gulf. Marine Environmental Research, 198, 106556.

  • Al Ameri, H. M., Al Harthi, S., Al Kiyumi, A., Al Sariri, T. S., Al-Zaidan, A. S. Y., Antonopoulou, M., ... & Godley, B. J. (2022). Biology and conservation of marine turtles in the northwestern Indian Ocean: a review. Endangered Species Research, 48, 67-86.

  • Almojil, D. (2020). Male mate choice in the spot-tail shark Carcharhinus sorrah: are males choosy or opportunistic?. Journal of Negative Results, 13.

  • Almojil, D., Cliff, G., & Spaet, J. L. (2018). Weak population structure of the Spot‐tail shark Carcharhinus sorrah and the Blacktip shark C. limbatus along the coasts of the Arabian Peninsula, Pakistan, and South Africa. Ecology and Evolution, 8(18), 9536-9549.

  • Almojil, D., Arias, M. C., Beasley, R. R., Chen, Y., Clark, R. W., Dong, Y., ... & Zhu, W. (2016). Microsatellite records for volume 8, issue 2.

  • Almojil, D. K., Moore, A. B., & White, W. T. (2015). Sharks & Rays of the Arabian/Persian Gulf.

  • Giles, J. L., Ovenden, J. R., Almojil, D., Garvilles, E., Khampetch, K. O., Manjebrayakath, H., & Riginos, C. (2014). Extensive genetic population structure in the Indo–West Pacific spot-tail shark, Carcharhinus sorrah. Bulletin of Marine Science, 90(1), 427-454.

  • Al‐Mohanna, S. Y., Al‐Zaidan, A. S., & George, P. (2014). Green turtles (Chelonia mydas) of the north-western Arabian Gulf, Kuwait: the need for conservation. Aquatic Conservation, 24(2).

  • Moore, A. B., Almojil, D., Harris, M., Jabado, R. W., & White, W. T. (2013). New biological data on the rare, threatened shark Carcharhinus leiodon (Carcharhinidae) from the Persian Gulf and Arabian Sea. Marine and Freshwater Research, 65(4), 327-332.

  • Park, H. I. M. (2008). Population genetic structure of Australian Galapagos reef sharks Carcharhinus galapagensis at Elizabeth and Middleton Reefs Marine National Nature Reserve and Lord.

  • Al-Zaidan, A. S. Y., Kennedy, H., Jones, D. A., & Al-Mohanna, S. Y. (2006). Role of microbial mats in Sulaibikhat Bay (Kuwait) mudflat food webs: evidence from δ13C analysis. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 308, 27-36.

  • Al-Zaidan, A. S. Y., Jones, D. A., Al-Mohanna, S. Y., & Meakins, R. (2003). Endemic macrofauna of the Sulaibikhat Bay salt marsh and mudflat habitats, Kuwait: Status and need for conservation. Journal of Arid Environments, 54(1), 115-124.

Fisheries Ecology and management

  • Ben-Hasan, A., & Al Mukaimi, M. E. (2025). Identifying unregulated fisheries seasonality through commercial landings and local fishers’ knowledge. Frontiers in Marine Science, 12, 1514378.

  • Ben‐Hasan, A. (2025). Overexploitation for Fish Maw: The Case of a Valuable Black‐Spotted Croaker Stock. Fisheries Management and Ecology.

  • Vahabnezhad, A., Ben-Hasan, A., Huynh, Q. C., & Hordyk, A. (2024). Performance of length limits to sustain a data-and capacity-limited fishery. Ocean & Coastal Management, 257, 107337.

  • Ben-Hasan, A. (2024). Trends in marine fisheries of the Arabian/Persian Gulf. In Oceanographic and Marine Environmental Studies around the Arabian Peninsula (pp. 197-206). CRC Press.

  • Ben-Hasan, A., Vahabnezhad, A., Burt, J. A., Alrushaid, T., & Walters, C. J. (2024). Fishery implications of smaller asymptotic body size: Insights from fish in an extreme environment. Fisheries Research, 271, 106918.

  • Alajmi, A., Ben‐Hasan, A., Alrushaid, T., Vahabnezhad, A., & Pauly, D. (2024). Mean temperature of the catch index can be masked by changes in catch composition unrelated to ocean warming. Fisheries Management and Ecology, 31(1), e12659.

  • Ben-Hasan, A., & Daliri, M. (2023). Arabian/Persian Gulf artisanal fisheries: magnitude, threats, and opportunities. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, 33(3), 541-559.

  • Almojil, D. (2021). Local ecological knowledge of fisheries charts decline of sharks in data-poor regions. Marine Policy, 132, 104638.

  • Al‐Zaidan, A. S., Akbar, A., Bahbahani, H., Al‐Mohanna, S. Y., Kolattukudy, B., & Balakrishna, V. (2021). Landing, consumption, and DNA barcoding of commercial seabream (Perciformes: Sparidae) in Kuwait. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 31(4), 802-817.

  • Ben-Hasan, A., de Mitcheson, Y. S., Cisneros-Mata, M. A., Jimenez, E. A., Daliri, M., Cisneros-Montemayor, A. M., ... & Christensen, V. (2021). China’s fish maw demand and its implications for fisheries in source countries. Marine Policy, 132, 104696.

  • Ben-Hasan, A., De La Puente, S., Flores, D., Melnychuk, M. C., Tivoli, E., Christensen, V., ... & Walters, C. J. (2021). Constrained public benefits from global catch share fisheries. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(39), e2021580118.

  • Ben‐Hasan, A., Walters, C., Hordyk, A., Christensen, V., & Al‐Husaini, M. (2021). Alleviating growth and recruitment overfishing through simple management changes: insights from an overexploited long‐lived fish. Marine and Coastal Fisheries, 13(2), 87-98.

  • Ghanbarzadeh, M., Ben-Hasan, A., Salarpouri, A., Walters, C., Kamrani, E., & Ranjbar, M. S. (2021). Coping with steep exploitation rates in an open access fishery. Ocean & Coastal Management, 201, 105499.

  • Daliri, M., Kamrani, E., Salarpouri, A., & Ben-Hasan, A. (2021). The Geographical Expansion of Fisheries conceals the decline in the Mean Trophic Level of Iran's catch. Ocean & Coastal Management, 199, 105411.

  • Ben-Hasan, A., Walters, C., Christensen, V., Munro, G., Sumaila, U. R., & Al-Baz, A. (2020). Age-structured bioeconomic model for strategic interaction: an application to pomfret stock in the Arabian/Persian Gulf. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 77(5), 1787-1795.

  • Ben‐Hasan, A., Walters, C., Christensen, V., van Poorten, B., Rajab, S., Al‐Husaini, M., & Al‐Foudari, H. (2019). Predicting changes in mean length with an age‐structured stock assessment model. Natural Resource Modeling, 32(4), e12218.

  • Ben-Hasan, A., Walters, C., & Sumaila, U. R. (2019). Effects of management on the profitability of seasonal fisheries. Frontiers in Marine Science, 6, 310.

  • Ben-Hasan, A., & Christensen, V. (2019). Vulnerability of the marine ecosystem to climate change impacts in the Arabian Gulf—an urgent need for more research. Global ecology and conservation, 17, e00556.

  • Ben-Hasan, A., Walters, C., Louton, R., Christensen, V., Sumaila, U. R., & Al-Foudari, H. (2018). Fishing-effort response dynamics in fisheries for short-lived invertebrates. Ocean & Coastal Management, 165, 33-38.

  • Ben-Hasan, A., Walters, C., Christensen, V., Al-Husaini, M., & Al-Foudari, H. (2018). Is reduced freshwater flow in Tigris-Euphrates rivers driving fish recruitment changes in the Northwestern Arabian Gulf?. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 129(1), 1-7.

  • Alsaffar, A., Hassan, A. B., Dashti, T., Taqi, A., Al-Mousawy, A., & Al Alawi, A. (2018). The importance of the intertidal area for the Mullet Liza klunzingeri. Journal of Agricultural and Marine Sciences, 23(1), 68-75.

  • Ben-Hasan, A., Al-Husaini, M., & Walters, C. (2017). Adaptive management of declining fisheries: when is it worth trying to rebuild stocks through fishery regulation?. Marine Policy, 85, 107-113.

  • Al-Zaidan, A. S., Al-Mohanna, S. Y., & George, P. (2013). Status of Kuwait's fishery resources: Assessment and perspective. Marine Policy, 38, 1-7.

Evolutionary and Environmental genomics

  • Shahin, T., Jurkovic, J., Dieng, M. M., Manikandan, V., Abdrabou, W., Alamad, B., Almojil, D, ... & Idaghdour, Y. (2025). Single-cell transcriptomics reveals inter-ethnic variation in immune response to Falciparum malaria. The American Journal of Human Genetics, 112(3), 709-723.

  • Peona, V., Martelossi, J., Almojil, D., Bocharkina, J., Brännström, I., Brown, M., ... & Suh, A. (2024). Teaching transposon classification as a means to crowd source the curation of repeat annotation–a tardigrade perspective. Mobile DNA, 15(1), 10.

  • Almojil, D., Diawara, A., Soulama, I., Dieng, M. M., Manikandan, V., Sermé, S. S., ... & Idaghdour, Y. (2023). Impact of Plasmodium falciparum infection on DNA methylation of circulating immune cells. Frontiers in Genetics, 14, 1197933.

  • Steppan, S. J., Meyer, A. A., Barrow, L. N., Alhajeri, B. H., Al-Zaidan, A. S., Gignac, P. M., & Erickson, G. M. (2022). Phylogenetics and the evolution of terrestriality in mudskippers (Gobiidae: Oxudercinae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 169, 107416.

  • Abdrabou, W., Dieng, M. M., Diawara, A., Sermé, S. S., Almojil, D., Sombié, S., ... & Idaghdour, Y. (2021). Metabolome modulation of the host adaptive immunity in human malaria. Nature Metabolism, 3(7), 1001-1016.

  • Almojil, D., Bourgeois, Y., Falis, M., Hariyani, I., Wilcox, J., & Boissinot, S. (2021). The structural, functional and evolutionary impact of transposable elements in eukaryotes. Genes, 12(6), 918.

Fish Physiology and Aquaculture

  • Alzaid, A., Kim, J. H., Devlin, R. H., Martin, S. A., & Macqueen, D. J. (2018). Growth hormone transgenesis in coho salmon disrupts muscle immune function impacting cross-talk with growth systems. Journal of Experimental Biology, 221(13), jeb173146.

  • Alzaid, A., Martin, S. A., & Macqueen, D. J. (2016). The complete salmonid IGF-IR gene repertoire and its transcriptional response to disease. Scientific Reports, 6(1), 34806.

  • Alzaid, A., Castro, R., Wang, T., Secombes, C. J., Boudinot, P., Macqueen, D. J., & Martin, S. A. (2016). Cross talk between growth and immunity: coupling of the IGF axis to conserved cytokine pathways in rainbow trout. Endocrinology, 157(5), 1942-1955.

  • Castro, R., Jouneau, L., Tacchi, L., Macqueen, D. J., Alzaid, A., Secombes, C. J., ... & Boudinot, P. (2015). Disparate developmental patterns of immune responses to bacterial and viral infections in fish. Scientific reports, 5(1), 15458.

  • Alzaid, A., Hori, T. S., Hall, J. R., Rise, M. L., & Gamperl, A. K. (2015). Cold-induced changes in stress hormone and steroidogenic transcript levels in cunner (Tautogolabrus adspersus), a fish capable of metabolic depression. General and Comparative Endocrinology, 224, 126-135.

  • Castro, R., Jouneau, L., Tacchi, L., Macqueen, D. J., Alzaid, A., Secombes, C. J., ... & Boudinot, P. (2015). Disparate developmental patterns of immune responses to bacterial and viral infections in fish. Scientific reports, 5(1), 15458.

  • Kelly, N. I., Alzaid, A., Nash, G. W., & Gamperl, A. K. (2014). Metabolic depression in cunner (Tautogolabrus adspersus) is influenced by ontogeny, and enhances thermal tolerance. PloS one, 9(12), e114765.