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Boudreux, P.J., A.M. Ferrara, and Q.C. Fontenot. 2007. Acute Toxicity of Ammonia to Spotted Gar, Lepisosteus oculatus, Alligator Gar, Atractosteus spatula, and Paddlefish, Polyodon spathula. Journal of the World Aquaculture Society Volume 38 Issue 2, Pages 322 – 325.

Boudreux, P.J., A.M. Ferrara, and Q.C. Fontenot. 2007. Chloride inhibition of nitrate uptake for non-teleost Actinopterygiian fishes. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology – Part A. 147: 420-423.

Brinkman, E. L. 2008. Contributions to the Life History of Alligator Gar, Atractosteus spatula, (Lacepede), in Oklahoma. Master’s Thesis, Oklahoma State University Graduate College. Stillwater, Oklahoma.

Buckmeier, David L. & Kerry S. Reeves 2012: Retention of Passive Integrated Transponder, T-Bar Anchor, and Coded Wire Tags in Lepisosteids, North American Journal of Fisheries Management, 32:3, 573-576

Buckmeier, David L.,  Nathan G. Smith & Kerry S. Reeves 2012: Utility of Alligator Gar Age Estimates from Otoliths, Pectoral Fin Rays, and Scales, Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, 141:6, 1510-1519

Buckmeier, D. L., Smith, N. G., & Daugherty, D. J. 2013. Alligator Gar movement and macrohabitat use in the lower Trinity River, Texas.Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, 142(4), 1025-1035.

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Burton, C. 1970. Alligator gar – fish terror or fishery tool. Arkansas Game and Fish. 3(1):5-7.

Castillo, S., Bollfrass, K., Mendoza, R., Fontenot, Q., Lazo, J. P., Aguilera, C., & Ferrara, A. (2015). Stimulatory effect of thyroid hormones improves larval development and reproductive performance in alligator gar (Atractosteus spatula) and spotted gar (Lepisosteus oculatus). Aquaculture Research, 46(9), 2079-2091.

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Echelle, A. A. 1967. The food of young-of-year gars, Lepisosteus, in Lake Texoma with notes on spawning and development. (MS). ry2dayNorman, Oklahoma, The University of Oklahoma.

Echelle, A. A., and C. D. Riggs. 1972. Aspects of the early life history of gars (Lepisosteus) in Lake Texoma. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 101:106-112.

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Galat, D. L., L. H. Fredrickson, D. D. Humburg, K. J. Bataille, J. R. Bodie, J. Dohrenwend, G. T. Gelwicks, J. E. Havel, D. L. Helmers, J. B. Hooker, J. R. Jones, M.F. Knowlton, J. Kubisiak, J. Mazourek, A. C. McColpin, R. B. Renken, and R. D. Semlitsch. 1998. Flooding to restore connectivity of regulated, large-river wetlands. BioScience 48:721-733.

Garcia De Leon, F. J., L. Gonzalez-Garcia, J. M. Herrera-Castillo, K. O. Winemiller, and A. Banda-Valdes. 2001. Ecology of the alligator gar, Atractosteus spatula, in the Vicente Guerrero Reservoir, Tamaulipas, Mexico. The Southwestern Naturalist 46:151-157.

Gelwick, F.P., and M.N. Morgan. 2000. Microhabitat use and community structure of fishes downstream of the proposed George Parkhouse I and Marvin Nichols I reservoir sites on the Sulphur River, Texas. Report to the Texas Water Development Board. 124 pp.

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Goodyear, C. P. 1967. Feeding habits of three species of gars, Lepisosteus, along the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 96:296-300.

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Guillory, V. 1979. Utilization of an inundated floodplain by Mississippi River fishes. Florida Scientist 42:222-228.

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Hastings, R.W.,D.A. Turner, and R.G. Thomas. 1987. Fish Fauna of Lake Maurepas, an Oligohaline Part of the Lake Pontchartrain Estuary. Northeast Gulf Science NGSCDE Vol. 9, No. 2, p 89-98, December 1987. 1 fig, 6 tab, 15 ref. NOAA Grant NA-83-AAA-D-CZ025.

Hay, O.P. 1883. On a collection of fishes from lower Mississippi valley. Proc. Bull. U.S. Fish Comm. 2:57-75.

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Hoffman, G.L. 1967. Parasites of North American Freshwater Fishes. University of California Press, Berkeley. 486 pp.

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Humphries, P., A. J. King, and J. D. Koehn. 1999. Fish, flows and flood plains: links between freshwater fishes and their environment in the Murray-Darling River system, Australia. Environmental Biology of Fishes 56:129-151.

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Inebnit, T. E., III. 2009. Aspects of the Reproductive and Juvenile Ecology of Alligator Gar in the Fourche LaFave River, Arkansas. (MS) University of Central Arkansas, Conway, Arkansas.

Jelks, H.L., S.J. Walsh, N.M. Burkhead, S. Contreras-Balderas, E. Diaz-Pardo, D.A. Hendrickson, J. Lyons, N.E. Mandrak, F. McCormick, J.S. Nelson, S.P. Platania, B.A. Porter, C.B. Renaud, J.J. Schmitter-Soto, E.B. Taylor, and M.L. Warren, Jr. 2008. Conservation status of imperiled North American freshwater and diadromous fishes. Fisheries 33(8):372-407.

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Mendoza, R., C. Aguilera, G. Robriguez, and R. Castro. 2002. Morphophysiological studies on alligator gar (Atractosteus spatula) larval development as a basis for their culture and repopulation of their natural habitats. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries 12: 133-142.

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