Non-lethal assessment of reproductive stage for female blue sharks Prionace glauca using sex steroid hormones.
2020
Plasma concentrations of progesterone (P4 ) and 17beta-oestradiol (E2 ) in juvenile, pre-ovulatory, early, mid- or late pregnancy stages of female blue sharks Prionace glauca were analysed. Concentrations of P4 were significantly higher in pregnant than in non-pregnant individuals, whereas E2 concentrations increased with embryonic and follicular development. A highly accurate (86.1%) random forest classification model was developed to predict shark pregnancy. It is proposed that hormone concentrations could be used for the subsequent non-lethal determination of female P. glauca reproductive state.
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