Comment on "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 84, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1059-1065

  Romero, Aldemaro ^a   Kannada, Shelly ^a  

^a ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WHALE; WHALE BONES; WHALING POPULATIONS;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS; POPULATION STATISTICS;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

GENETIC ANALYSIS; SKELETAL REMAINS; WHALE; WHALING;

CANADA; LABRADOR; NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR; NORTH AMERICA; RED BAY;

BALAENA MYSTICETUS; BALAENIDAE; CETACEA; PERSEA BORBONIA;

EID: 33749671719     PISSN: 00084301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/Z06-085     Document Type: Review

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