Detection of interspecies hybridisation in Chondrichthyes: Hybrids and hybrid offspring between Australian (Carcharhinus tilstoni) and common (C. limbatus) blacktip shark found in an Australian fishery

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 455-463

  Morgan, Jess A T ^a,b   Harry, Alastair V ^c   Welch, David J ^c   Street, Raewyn ^b   White, Jimmy ^c   Geraghty, Pascal T ^d   Macbeth, William G ^d   Tobin, Andrew ^c   Simpfendorfer, Colin A ^c   Ovenden, Jennifer R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b DEPARTMENT OF EMPLOYMENT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION   (Australia)

^c JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d New South Wales Government   (Australia)

Author keywords

Barcoding; Chondrichthyes; Hybrid fitness; Introgression; Mitochondrial DNA; Nuclear DNA

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY; DETECTION METHOD; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EXPLOITATION; FITNESS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MARKER; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HYBRID; HYBRIDIZATION; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MORPHOLOGY; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SEXUAL MATURITY; SHARK;

AUSTRALIA;

CARCHARHINUS LIMBATUS; CARCHARHINUS TILSTONI; CHONDRICHTHYES;

EID: 84858007632     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: 15729737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-011-0298-6     Document Type: Article

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