SHARKS that active for up to 392 years are being intentional for the secret to long life.
Researchers are analyzing the DNA from fin clippings of 100 Gronland sharks — the longest living chordate.
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Gronland sharks live for a very far-reaching time
They hope to be trained what determines life expectation in different species including general public.
The study of its bones and tissues by the Galosh University of Norway may also dispense clues about the effects of clime change and pollution over a great time span.
Already the researchers admit mapped out all the 16ft shark’s mitochondrial DNA – transmitted material held in tiny shelling-like bodies in cells that function energy.
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Researchers are captivating samples from the fish
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One of the sharks swims abutting to a research vessel
Now they are employed on DNA from the cell nucleus, which have in it the bulk of the animal’s genes.
The “abundant life” genes could throw light on why most vertebrates hog such a limited life couplet, and what determines life expectation in different species, including general public.
Little is known about the biol and genetics of the Greenland shark, which reside in deep water in the Atlantic the depths from Canada to Norway and is commence off the coast of Scotland.
Academician Kim Praebel, who is leading the hunt, aforementioned the sharks were “animation time capsules” that could balm shed light on human influence on the oceans.
Many were so old they pre-ancient the industrial revolution and the introduction of blimp-scale commercial fishing.
“The long living vertebrate species on the follower has formed several populations in the Ocean Ocean,” said Professor Praebel, who was speaking at the University of Exeter at a symposium organized by the Fisheries Society of the British Isles.
“This is extensive to know, so we can develop appropriate upkeep actions for this important species.”
