title: Consecutive parthenogenetic births in a spotted eagle ray Aetobatus narinari.
abstract: Genetic evidence is given to support consecutive parthenogenesis in a spotted eagle ray Aetobatus narinari using nuclear microsatellite genotyping. To date, only a handful of births involving the parthenogenesis process in chondrichthyans have been verified using microsatellite markers and even fewer verified as recurring births. This appears to be the first documented case of this process occurring in a myliobatid species.
authors.affiliation: Disney's Animals, Science, and Environment, Disney's Animal Kingdom, EPCOT's The Seas with Nemo and Friends, Walt Disney's Parks and Resorts, Bay Lake, FL, 32830, U.S.A.
authors.forename: T S
authors.initials: TS
authors.lastname: Harmon
authors.affiliation: Disney's Animals, Science, and Environment, Disney's Animal Kingdom, EPCOT's The Seas with Nemo and Friends, Walt Disney's Parks and Resorts, Bay Lake, FL, 32830, U.S.A.
authors.forename: T Y
authors.initials: TY
authors.lastname: Kamerman
authors.affiliation: Disney's Animals, Science, and Environment, Disney's Animal Kingdom, EPCOT's The Seas with Nemo and Friends, Walt Disney's Parks and Resorts, Bay Lake, FL, 32830, U.S.A.
authors.forename: A L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Corwin
authors.affiliation: California Academy of Sciences, Center for Comparative Genomics, 55 Music Concourse Drive, San Francisco, CA, 94118, U.S.A.
authors.forename: A B
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Sellas
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005260:Female; D005838:Genotype; D018895:Microsatellite Repeats; D010312:Parthenogenesis; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D012860:Skates, Fish / Q000235:genetics* / Q000502:physiology*
keywords: DNA; automixis; elasmobranch; myliobatid; reproduction