The influence of maternal lineages on social affiliations among humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) on their feeding grounds in the southern Gulf of Maine

Journal of Heredity

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 226-234

  Weinrich, Mason T ^a   Rosenbaum, Howard ^b,c   Scott Baker, C ^d   Blackmer, Alexis L ^a,e   Whitehead, Hal ^f  

^a Whale Center of New England   (United States)

^b WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

^c DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; DNA DETERMINATION; GENETIC LINE; HAPLOTYPE; MEGAPTERA NOVAEANGLIAE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BIOPSY; SOCIAL INTERACTION; UNITED STATES; WHALE;

ANIMALS; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; WHALES;

CETACEA; MEGAPTERA; MEGAPTERA NOVAEANGLIAE;

EID: 33745638133     PISSN: 00221503     EISSN: 14657333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esj018     Document Type: Article

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