Genetic analysis of 16th-century whale bones prompts a revision of the impact of Basque whaling on right and bowhead whales in the western North Atlantic

Canadian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 82, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1647-1654

  Rastogi, Toolika ^a   Brown, Moira W ^c   McLeod, Brenna A ^b   Frasier, Timothy R ^a   Grenier, Robert ^d   Cumbaa, Stephen L ^e   Nadarajah, Jeya ^a   White, Bradley N ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Edgerton Research Laboratory   (United States)

^d PARKS CANADA   (Canada)

^e CANADIAN MUSEUM OF NATURE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE; FISHERIES; GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; POPULATION STATISTICS; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

CETACEANS; POPULATION SIZE; WHALERS; WHALING;

MARINE BIOLOGY;

GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIATION; HISTORICAL ECOLOGY; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; WHALING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTHWEST); OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

BALAENA MYSTICETUS; BALAENIDAE; CETACEA; EUBALAENA GLACIALIS;

EID: 22744453106     PISSN: 00084301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/z04-146     Document Type: Article

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