Dorsal skin color patterns among southern right whales (Eubalaena australis): Genetic basis and evolutionary significance

Journal of Heredity

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 464-471

  Schaeff, C M ^a   Best, P B ^b   Rowntree, V J ^c   Payne, R ^c   Jarvis, C ^a   Portway, V A ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^c Whale Conservation Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL INHERITANCE; FEMALE; GENE CONTROL; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MALE; MARKER GENE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SKIN COLOR; SOUTH AFRICA; WHALE; X CHROMOSOME LINKAGE;

ANIMALS; ARGENTINA; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENETICS, POPULATION; MALE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SOUTH AFRICA; WHALES;

BALAENIDAE; CETACEA; EUBALAENA AUSTRALIS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0032880036     PISSN: 00221503     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jhered/90.4.464     Document Type: Article

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