Whales before whaling in the North Atlantic

Science

Volumn 301, Issue 5632, 2003, Pages 508-510

  Roman, Joe ^a   Palumbi, Stephen R ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; ECOLOGY; ESTIMATION; GENES; OCEAN HABITATS; POPULATION STATISTICS;

WHALES;

BIODIVERSITY;

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

GENETIC VARIATION; HUNTING; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; POPULATION ESTIMATION; WHALE;

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CALCULATION; DNA SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; WHALE;

ANIMALS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; GENETICS, POPULATION; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME FACTORS; VARIATION (GENETICS); WHALES;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

ANIMALIA; BALAENOPTERA ACUTOROSTRATA; CETACEA; MAMMALIA; MEGAPTERA; MYSTICETI; ONCORHYNCHUS GORBUSCHA;

EID: 0041843791     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1084524     Document Type: Article

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