Genetic tagging of humpback whales

Nature

Volumn 388, Issue 6644, 1997, Pages 767-769

  Palsbøll, Per J ^a   Allen, Judith ^b   Bérubé, Martine ^a,c   Clapham, Phillip J ^d   Feddersen, Tonnie P ^a   Hammond, Philip S ^e   Hudson, Richard R ^f   Jørgensen, Hanne ^a   Katona, Steve ^b   Larsen, Anja Holm ^a   Larsen, Finn ^g   Lien, Jon ^h   Mattila, David K ^d   Sigurjónsson, Jóhann ⁱ   Sears, Richard ^j   Smith, Tim ^k   Sponer, Renate ^a   Stevick, Peter ^b   Øien, Nils ^l  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b Policy and Design   (United States)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d CENTER FOR COASTAL STUDIES   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g GREENLAND INSTITUTE OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Greenland)

^h MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

ⁱ MARINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Iceland)

^j MINGAN ISLAND CETACEAN STUDY   (Canada)

^k NORTHEAST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^l INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; SKIN BIOPSY; WHALE;

ANIMALS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; DNA; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SKIN; WHALES;

ANIMALIA; CETACEA; MEGAPTERA; ONCORHYNCHUS GORBUSCHA;

EID: 0030774621     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/42005     Document Type: Article

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