Identification and phylogenetic inferences on stocks of sharks affected by the fishing industry off the Northern coast of Brazil

The ongoing decline in abundance and diversity of shark stocks, primarily due to uncontrolled fishery exploitation, is a worldwide problem. An additional problem for the development of conservation and management programmes is the identification of species diversity within a given area, given the mo...

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Main Authors: Luis Fernando da Silva Rodrigues-Filho, Tainá Carreira da Rocha, Péricles Sena do Rêgo, Horacio Schneider, Iracilda Sampaio, Marcelo Vallinoto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Genética 2009-01-01
Series:Genetics and Molecular Biology
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-47572009000200031