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Are sandbar sharks more like bowhead whales or cod?

By David Shiffman, on May 24th, 2010

ResearchBlogging.org

At first glance, the question posed in the title seems silly. Both cod and sandbar sharks are fish, therefore they must be more similar to each other than either are to bowhead whales (which are mammals). However, a recent conservation genetics paper has demonstrated that one aspect of a sandbar shark’s life history is  more similar to that of bowhead whales: both sandbar sharks and bowhead whales have an effective size that is very similar to their census size.

 

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May 24th, 2010 | Tags: , , | Category: biology, Conservation, ecology, fisheries, Natural Science, Science, sharks | One comment - (Comments are closed)