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Hybrids between Australian and common blacktip shark
Published online on 17. December 2011 Detection of interspecies hybridisation in Chondrichthyes: hybrids and hybrid offspring between Australian (Carcharhinus tilstoni) and common (C. limbatus) blacktip shark found in an Australian fishery Morgan et al. ABSTRACT: Interspecies hybridisation in nature is a well-studied phenomenon, but it has not been analysed using genetic markers in the class
Mercury bioaccumulation in elasmobranchs
by Nicholas Kutil and David L. Taylor. ABSTRACT: Mercury (Hg) is a toxic environmental contaminant that bioaccumulates in fish tissues, including numerous marine species. Cartilaginous fish of the subclass Elasmobranchii are important ecological constituents of marine ecosystems, yet the fate of Hg contaminants in their body tissues is largely unknown. In this study, four species