Virgin birth in a hammerhead shark

Biology Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 425-427

  Chapman, Demian D ^a,d   Shivji, Mahmood S ^a   Louis, Ed ^b   Sommer, Julie ^b   Fletcher, Hugh ^c   Prodöhl, Paulo A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Center for Conservation Research   (United States)

^c QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Asexual reproduction; Automictic parthenogenesis; Chondrichthyes; Genomic imprinting; Microsatellite DNA profiling; Sphyrnidae

Indexed keywords

CAPTIVE POPULATION; CONSERVATION GENETICS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MARKER; IMPRINTING; PARTHENOGENESIS; SHARK;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HAMMERHEAD SHARK; NONHUMAN; PARTHENOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHARK; ALLELE; ANIMAL; GENETICS; HOMOZYGOTE; PHYSIOLOGY;

BATOIDEA; CHONDRICHTHYES; GNATHOSTOMATA (VERTEBRATE); MAMMALIA; SPHYRNA TIBURO; SPHYRNIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HOMOZYGOTE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; PARTHENOGENESIS; SHARKS;

EID: 35248851214     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2007.0189     Document Type: Article

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