Whales Use Distinct Strategies to Counteract Solar Ultraviolet Radiation

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Martinez Levasseur, Laura M ^a,b,g   Birch Machin, Mark A ^c   Bowman, Amy ^c   Gendron, Diane ^d   Weatherhead, Elizabeth ^e   Knell, Robert J ^b   Acevedo Whitehouse, Karina ^a,f  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL   (Mexico)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^f UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE QUERÉTARO   (Mexico)

^g TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEOME;

ANIMAL; DNA DAMAGE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION RESPONSE; SKIN; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPERM WHALE; SUNLIGHT; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; ARTICLE; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

ANIMALS; DNA DAMAGE; PROTEOME; SKIN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPERM WHALE; SUNLIGHT; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 84884149150     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep02386     Document Type: Article

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