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LSM1303 ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

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Recent examples of parthenogenesis in vertebrates - shark and komodo!

The Daily Telegraph story on the Komodo dragon surprise of parthenogenesis in 2006 at Chester Zoo. Source article: Watts, P. C., K. R. Buley, S. Sanderson, W. Boardman, C. Ciofi & R. Gibson, 2006. Parthenogenesis in Komodo dragons. Nature, 444: 1021-1022.
Daily Telegraph - Komodo dragon parthenogenesis

The New York Times story on parthenogensis in a hammerhead shark in Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha, Nebraska in 2001. This was based on this 2007 paper: Chapman, D. D., M. S. Shivji, E. Louis, J. Sommer, H. Fletcher, P. A. Prodöhl, 2007. Virgin birth in a hammerhead shark. Biology Letters, 3 (4): 425-427.

NYT - Shark parthenogenesis
See also the 2002 National Geographic story on the report of parthenogenesis in a white spotted bamboo shark at Bellle Isle Aquarium, Detroit.
Published Monday, April 07, 2008 5:49 PM by N. Sivasothi

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About N. Sivasothi

Sivasothi is lecturing Biodiversity, Ecology, Structure and Function, Marine Biology and Animal Behaviour with the Department of Biological Sciences. His interests include otters, mangroves, museum databases, coastal ecology, tree-climbing crabs and conservation of biodiversity. He is also the national coordinator of the International Coastal Cleanup Singapore and Toddycats! Volunteers of the Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research, NUS.

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