Individuals were aged based on otolith readings after validating the annual periodicity of annuli deposition.
David Villegas-Ríos, Alexandre Alonso-Fernández, Mariña Fabeiro, Rafael Bañón, FranSaborido-Rey 2013, 'Demographic Variation between Colour Patterns in a Temperate Protogynous Hermaphrodite,the Ballan Wrasse Labrus bergylta', PLoS ONE10.1371/journal.pone.0071591. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
According to scale annuli interpretation, the individuals caught showed more than five age classes.
J. J. Castro, J. A. Santiago, V. Hernández-García, C. Pla 1999, 'Growth and reproduction of the dolphinfish (Coryphaena equiselis and Coryphaenahippurus) in the Canary Islands, Central-East Atlantic (preliminary results)',Scientia Marinahttp://scientiamarina.revistas.csic.es/index.php/scientiamarina/article/view/866. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The age was estimated through the annuli counts on sectioned vertebral centra.
Antonello Mulas 2015, 'Life-history traits of the long-nosed skate Dipturus oxyrinchus, from the centralwestern Mediterranean Sea', Frontiers in Marine Sciencehttp://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/conf.FMARS.2015.03.00193/full. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The time of annuli formation was established by the scales' marginal growth quotient variation.
Marcos Antonio Cestarolli, Fernando André Salles, Geraldo Barbieri 2001, 'Growth and first sexual maturation size of Salminus maxillosus Valenciennes,1849 (Characiformes, Characidae), in Mogi Guaçu river, state of São Paulo, BrazilCrescimento e tamanho de primeira maturação gonadal de Salminus maxillosusValenciennes, 1849 (Characiformes, Characidae), no rio Mogi Guaçu, Estado de São Paulo,Brasil', Acta Scientiarum : Biological Scienceshttp://www.periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/ActaSciBiolSci/article/view/2697. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The velocity slip and temperature jump at the micro-concentric annuli surface are taken into account.
Basant K. Jha, Babatunde Aina, Sani Isa 2016, 'MHD natural convection flow in a vertical micro-concentric-annuli in the presenceof radial magnetic field: An exact solution', Ain Shams Engineering Journalhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S209044791500129X. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The flow patterns in annuli are different from pipe flow.
Bang-Tang Yin, Xiang-Fang Li, Gang Liu 2017, 'A mechanistic model of heat transfer for gas–liquid flow in vertical wellbore annuli',Petroleum Sciencehttp://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12182-017-0193-y. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Generalized linear mixed models estimated the masting effects on false annuli frequency.
Kahoko Tochigi, Yukino Aoki, Tetsuya Maruyama, Koji Yamazaki, Chinatsu Kozakai, TomokoNaganuma, Akino Inagaki, Takashi Masaki, Shinsuke Koike 2019, 'Does hard mast production affect patterns of cementum annuli formation in premolarteeth of Asian black bears (Ursus thibetanus)?', PLOS ONE10.1371/journal.pone.0211561. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Validation of otolith annuli was achieved with marginal increment analysis.
Alfredo Pérez, Nidia Noemí Fabré 2018, 'Life-history characteristics of Pseudoplatystoma metaense (Teleostei: Siluriformes:Pimelodidae) from the northwestern Orinoco River Basin', Neotropical Ichthyologyhttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1679-62252018000100209&lng=en&tlng=en. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The age of each individual was determined by counting the external shall annuli-growth interruption lines.
Mehmet Fatih Can, Hülya Şereflişan 2018, 'Age, Growth and Mortality of Unio tigridis (Bourguignat, 1852)', Turkish Journal of Agriculture: Food Science and Technologyhttp://www.agrifoodscience.com/index.php/TURJAF/article/view/1845. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Otolith sectionings were discarded due to annuli losses caused by the edge structure.
L. J. López Abellán, M. T. G. Santamaría, P. Conesa 2001, 'Age and growth of Pontinus kuhlii (Bowdich, 1825) in the Canary Islands', Scientia Marinahttp://scientiamarina.revistas.csic.es/index.php/scientiamarina/article/view/658. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)