Adaptive prolonged postreproductive life span in killer whales

Science

Volumn 337, Issue 6100, 2012, Pages 1313-

  Foster, Emma A ^a,b   Franks, Daniel W ^c   Mazzi, Sonia ^c   Darden, Safi K ^a   Balcomb, Ken C ^b   Ford, John K B ^d   Croft, Darren P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTER FOR WHALE RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^d PACIFIC BIOLOGICAL STATION   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; WHALE;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; KILLER WHALE; LIFESPAN; LONGEVITY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MATING; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL;

ORCINUS ORCA;

EID: 84866133639     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1224198     Document Type: Article

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