Isotopic and genetic evidence for culturally inherited site fidelity to feeding grounds in southern right whales (Eubalaena australis)

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 782-791

  Valenzuela, Luciano O ^a,b   Sironi, Mariano ^b,c   Rowntree, Victoria J ^a,d   Seger, Jon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b Instituto de Conservación de Ballenas   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

^d Ocean Alliance   (United States)

Author keywords

Baleen whales; Genetic structure; Mitochondrial DNA; Philopatry; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

CARBON; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NITROGEN;

ANIMAL; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; INHERITANCE; ISOTOPE LABELING; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SKIN; WHALE;

ANIMALS; ARGENTINA; BASE SEQUENCE; CARBON ISOTOPES; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; HAPLOTYPES; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; ISOTOPE LABELING; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; SKIN; WHALES;

BALAENIDAE; CETACEA; COPEPODA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); EUBALAENA AUSTRALIS; EUPHAUSIACEA; MYSTICETI;

EID: 60549106727     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2008.04069.x     Document Type: Article

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