Kinship of long-term associates in the highly social sperm whale

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 732-744

  Ortega Ortiz, Joel G ^a   Engelhaupt, Daniel ^b   Winsor, Martha ^a   Mate, Bruce R ^a   Rus Hoelzel, A ^b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

associations; cetacean; kinship; resource dispersion; satellite telemetry

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COOPERATION; GENETICS; MALE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEDIGREE; POPULATION MIGRATION; SEX DETERMINATION; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SPERM WHALE; TELEMETRY;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; HIERARCHY, SOCIAL; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEDIGREE; SEX DETERMINATION ANALYSIS; SPERM WHALE; TELEMETRY;

CETACEA; MAMMALIA; PHYSETER CATODON; PHYSETERIDAE;

EID: 84855865329     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05274.x     Document Type: Article

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