http://moduleblog.nus.edu.sg/blogs/lsm1303/archive/tags/shark/default.aspxTags: sharkenCommunityServer 2.1 SP2 (Build: 61129.2)http://moduleblog.nus.edu.sg/blogs/lsm1303/archive/2008/04/07/recent-examples-of-parthenogenesis-in-vertebrates-shark-and-komodo.aspxMon, 07 Apr 2008 09:49:23 GMTe49c60f1-e4eb-4cbb-ba94-e245dcbf35fa:10980N. Sivasothi0http://moduleblog.nus.edu.sg/blogs/lsm1303/comments/10980.aspxhttp://moduleblog.nus.edu.sg/blogs/lsm1303/commentrss.aspx?PostID=10980http://moduleblog.nus.edu.sg/blogs/lsm1303/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=10980The <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/12/21/ndragon21.xml">Daily Telegraph story</a> 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. <a href="http://www.nature.com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/nature/journal/v444/n7122/full/4441021a.html">Nature, 444: 1021-1022</a>. <div align="center"><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/12/21/ndragon21.xml"><img src="http://img.skitch.com/20080407-fb9ap31cwk47a1rdwwy75srekh.jpg" alt="Daily Telegraph - Komodo dragon parthenogenesis" /></a></div> <p>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. <em><a href="http://journals.royalsociety.org/content/6k61886t0h7014jm/">Biology Letters</em>, <strong>3</strong> (4): 425-427</a>. <p><div align="center"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/23/science/23shark.html?ex=1337572800&en=a18b46b92d3b7467&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss"><img src="http://img.skitch.com/20080407-kp338kmw6rg54g2smudjs4rgre.jpg" alt="NYT - Shark parthenogenesis" /></a></div> See also the 2002 <a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/09/0925_020925_virginshark.html">National Geographic story</a> on the report of parthenogenesis in a white spotted bamboo shark at Bellle Isle Aquarium, Detroit.<img src="http://moduleblog.nus.edu.sg/aggbug.aspx?PostID=10980" width="1" height="1">sharklecture12parthenogenesiskomodo