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Evidence of positive selection associated with placental loss in tiger sharks

BACKGROUND: All vertebrates initially feed their offspring using yolk reserves. In some live-bearing species these yolk reserves may be supplemented with extra nutrition via a placenta. Sharks belonging to the Carcharhinidae family are all live-bearing, and with the exception of the tiger shark (Gal...

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Autores principales: Swift, Dominic G., Dunning, Luke T., Igea, Javier, Brooks, Edward J., Jones, Catherine S., Noble, Leslie R., Ciezarek, Adam, Humble, Emily, Savolainen, Vincent
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4906603/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27296413
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-016-0696-y

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