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Reproductive biology of the school shark, Galeorhinus galeus, off Argentina: support for a single south western Atlantic population with synchronized migratory movements

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  1. Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo Pesquero, Casilla de Correo 82, Correo Central, Argentina

    Luis Lucifora & Roberto Menni

  2. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Argentina

    Luis Lucifora & Alicia Escalante

  3. Department of Biological Sciences, Life Sciences Centre, Dalhousie University, 1355, Oxford Street, NS, Canada

    Luis Lucifora

  4. Departamento Científico de Zoología de Vertebrados, Museo de La Plata, Paseo del Bosque s/n, Argentina

    Roberto Menni

  5. Departamento de Biología, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Funes, 3250 segundo piso, Argentina

    Alicia Escalante

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Lucifora, L., Menni, R. & Escalante, A. Reproductive biology of the school shark, Galeorhinus galeus, off Argentina: support for a single south western Atlantic population with synchronized migratory movements. Environmental Biology of Fishes 71, 199–209 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10641-004-0305-6

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