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http://www.livescience.com/57536-zebra-shark-has-virgin-births.html?utm_source=notification


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Leonie the zebra shark doesn't seem to need a mate: She recently gave birth to three pups via asexual reproduction at the Reef HQ Aquarium in Townsville, Australia.


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Sure, she used to have a mate at the Reef HQ Aquarium in Townsville, Australia. The pair even had several litters before they were separated in 2012.


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Leonie's case marks the first time scientists have seen this type of asexual reproduction —known as parthenogenesis—in the zebra shark


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We thought she could be storing sperm; but when we tested the pups and the possible parent sharks using DNA fingerprinting, we found they only had cells from Leonie


This is pretty neat because its a species that we know reproduces via male/female and has never to our knowledge reproduced asexually, until now.
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