How great white sharks nourish their embryos to a large size: evidence of lipid histotrophy in lamnoid shark reproduction

The great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) exhibits viviparous and oophagous reproduction. A 4950 mm total length (TL) gravid female accidentally caught by fishermen in the Okinawa Prefecture, Southern Japan carried six embryos (543-624 mm TL, three in each uterus). Both uteri contained copious...

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Autores principales: Sato, Keiichi, Nakamura, Masaru, Tomita, Taketeru, Toda, Minoru, Miyamoto, Kei, Nozu, Ryo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Company of Biologists Ltd 2016
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5051657/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27635035
http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/bio.017939

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5051657/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27635035
http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/bio.017939

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