The behavioural and genetic mating system of the sand tiger shark, Carcharias taurus, an intrauterine cannibal

Sand tiger sharks (Carcharias taurus) have an unusual mode of reproduction, whereby the first embryos in each of the paired uteri to reach a certain size (‘hatchlings’) consume all of their smaller siblings during gestation (‘embryonic cannibalism’ or EC). If females commonly mate with multiple male...

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Autores principales: Chapman, Demian D., Wintner, Sabine P., Abercrombie, Debra L., Ashe, Jimiane, Bernard, Andrea M., Shivji, Mahmood S., Feldheim, Kevin A.
Formato: Artigo
Lenguaje:Inglês
Publicado: The Royal Society 2013
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Evolutionary Biology
Acceso en línea:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3645029/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23637391
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2013.0003
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