How many protected minke whales are sold in Japan and Korea? A census by microsatellite DNA profiling

Animal Conservation

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 143-152

  Dalebout, Merel L ^a   Lento, Gina M ^a   Cipriano, Frank ^b   Funahashi, Naoko ^c   Baker, C Scott ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL SPECIES; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EXPLOITATION; GENOTYPE; WHALE;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN; KOREA; WORLD;

BALAENOPTERA; BALAENOPTERA ACUTOROSTRATA; CETACEA;

EID: 0038630372     PISSN: 13679430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1367943002002202     Document Type: Article

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