The role of menopause and reproductive senescence in a long-lived social mammal

Frontiers in Zoology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Ward, Eric J ^a   Parsons, Kim ^b   Holmes, Elizabeth E ^a   Balcomb, Ken C ^c   Ford, John Kb ^d  

^a NORTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center   (United States)

^c CENTER FOR WHALE RESEARCH   (United States)

^d PACIFIC BIOLOGICAL STATION   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAMMALIA; ORCINUS ORCA;

EID: 60849128508     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17429994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-9994-6-4     Document Type: Article

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