Utility of North Atlantic right whale museum specimens for assessing changes in genetic diversity

Conservation Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1837-1842

  Rosenbaum, Howard C ^a,b   Egan, Mary G ^a   Clapham, Phillip J ^c   Brownell Jr , Robert L ^d   Malik, Sobia ^e   Brown, Moira W ^f,g   White, Bradley N ^e   Walsh, Peter ^b   Desalle, Rob ^a  

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^b WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

^c NORTHEAST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^d SOUTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^e MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f CENTER FOR COASTAL STUDIES   (United States)

^g East Coast Ecosystems   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BALAENIDAE; CETACEA; EUBALAENA GLACIALIS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0034503080     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.2000.99310.x     Document Type: Article

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