Alliance membership and kinship in wild male bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus) of southeastern Australia

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 268, Issue 1479, 2001, Pages 1941-1947

  Moller L M ^a   Beheregaray, L B ^a   Harcourt, R G ^a   Krutzen M ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alliances; Bottlenose dolphins; Kinship; Microsatellites; Mitochondrial DNA control region; Tursiops aduncus

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DOLPHIN; KINSHIP; MALE BEHAVIOR;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DOLPHIN; GENETIC MARKER; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL STRUCTURE;

(SOUTH); AUSTRALIA;

TURSIOPS ADUNCUS;

EID: 0035934655     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2001.1756     Document Type: Article

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