Harp seal ageing techniques-teeth, aspartic acid racemization, and telomere sequence analysis

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1365-1374

  Garde, Eva ^a   Frie, Anne K ^b   Dunshea, Glenn ^c   Hansen, Steen H ^d   Kovacs, Kit M ^e   Lydersen, Christian ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^e NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

Author keywords

age determination; age estimation; amino acid racemization (AAR); aspartic acid; eye lens; growth layer group (GLG); Pagophilus groenlandicus; population management; telomere

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; AMINO ACID; ESTIMATION METHOD; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; PINNIPED; RACEMIZATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ARCTIC OCEAN; BARENTS SEA;

ANIMALIA; PHOCA GROENLANDICA;

EID: 78650450613     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: 15451542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1644/10-MAMM-A-080.1     Document Type: Article

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