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Long-term sperm storage in the brownbanded bamboo shark Chiloscyllium punctatum
M A Bernal1, N L Sinai, C Rocha
1University of Texas Marine Science Institute, 750 Channel View Dr, Port Aransas, TX 78373, U.S.A; California Academy of Sciences, 55 Music Concourse Dr, San Francisco, CA 94118, U.S.A.
Journal of Fish Biology
|December 30, 2014
Abstract:
This study investigated the birth of a brownbanded bamboo shark Chiloscyllium punctatum at the Steinhart Aquarium. Genetic analyses suggest this is the longest documented case of sperm storage for any species of shark (45 months).
