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Qatar Whale Shark Research Project
A long-term study of Qatar's exceptionally large seasonal whale-shark aggregation using photo-identification, satellite tracking, tissue/DNA sampling and seawater eDNA; genomics papers demonstrated population inference from mitochondrial and genome-scale target capture of environmental DNA.
01 / نظرة عامة على المشروع
ما الذي يثبته السجل.
- النطاق الجغرافي
- Al Shaheen region and northeastern offshore waters of Qatar
- نوع المشروع
- longitudinal wildlife monitoring project with conservation-genomics and eDNA components
- مجال البحث
- marine conservation, population genetics and environmental DNA
- السنوات
- 2010–
- حالة المشروع
- active or recurrent monitoring program
- أساس تحديد الحالة
- Visit Qatar's current wildlife page continues to describe the project and its database, while annual whale-shark monitoring and viewing activity remained documented in 2025-2026.
- تاريخ دليل الحالة
- 2026-08-15
- الحجم
- More than 600 individually identified whale sharks in the project database, with aggregations of up to roughly 300 animals; eDNA studies recovered aggregation-level mitochondrial haplotypes and later genome-scale target-capture data from Qatar seawater.
02 / المؤسسات والمجتمع
من وما الذي يربطه المشروع.
- الجهات القائدة
- Qatar Ministry of Environment
- الجهات الشريكة
- Maersk Oil Qatar · Heriot-Watt University · University of Copenhagen · Natural History Museum of Denmark · NAUI research divers
- الكائن / المجتمع
- whale shark (Rhincodon typus) aggregation and associated marine environmental DNA
03 / البيانات والإتاحة
ما الموجود وكيف يمكن الوصول إليه.
أنواع البيانات
- photo-identification
- satellite telemetry
- tissue DNA
- seawater environmental DNA
- mitochondrial sequencing
- target-capture sequencing
- population genetics
إتاحة البيانات
Summary statistics and methods are published; the photo-ID database and underlying project samples are not documented as open access.
المعرّفات
لا يوجد رقم وصول أو معرّف عام مدرج لهذا السجل.
04 / الدليل والمصدر
لماذا أُدرج هذا السجل.
أساس الإدراج
Named, longitudinal, multi-animal national monitoring resource with explicit tissue-DNA and reusable seawater-eDNA population-genomics outputs.
ملاحظة تحريرية
Genomics is one component of a broader ecological monitoring project. The current official page does not state a formal operational end date or expose the underlying identification database.
المصادر
- primary record source تم التحقق في 2026-08-15
- additional record source تم التحقق في 2026-08-15
- additional record source تم التحقق في 2026-08-15
- additional record source تم التحقق في 2026-08-15
- additional record source تم التحقق في 2026-08-15
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