Genomic Tracking of Market-Derived Bull Shark Fins Back to Source Population of Origin.

Abstract excerpt

International trade of shark fins remains difficult to monitor because products are rarely labelled to species and are often highly processed, resulting in severely degraded DNA. For several shark species listed under Appendix II of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), this limits external verification of source populations supplying global trade hubs. Here,...

Topics

• Animals
• Sharks
• Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
• Animal Fins
• Female
• Male
• Genetics, Population