Abstract
We tested for presence or absence of multiple paternity in single litters from each of three congeneric shark species in Hawaii: the sandbar shark, Carcharhinus plumbeus, bignose shark, Carcharhinus altimus, and Galapagos shark, Carcharhinus galapagensis. Based on eight polymorphic microsatellite loci, we excluded paternity by a single sire in sandbar and bignose sharks, but could not exclude a single sire for the litter from the Galapagos shark. This study doubles the number of shark species tested for multiple paternity, and is the first demonstration of multiple paternity in sandbar and bignose sharks.
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We thank Jack Musick, Jason Romine, Amanda Southwood, Marc Crepeau, Jenny Schultz, and Sarah Daley for their help in sampling and genetic analysis, as well as all the members of the Bowen, Toonen, and Holland Labs and many other volunteers on the shark survey project for their support. Genetic analyses were made possible by the EPSCoR Evolutionary Genetics Facility at the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, and funding came from the Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology (EECB) Program at the University of Hawaii, the National Science Foundation (NSF Graduate K-12 program grant to EECB #0232016, NSF Grant OCE-0453167), and Sigma Xi. We also thank two anonymous reviewers and David L.G. Noakes for helpful comments and improvements to the manuscript. This is contribution #1223 from the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology.
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Daly-Engel, T., Grubbs, R., Holland, K. et al. Assessment of multiple paternity in single litters from three species of carcharhinid sharks in Hawaii. Environ Biol Fish 76, 419–424 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10641-006-9008-5
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