Tracking niche variation over millennial timescales in sympatric killer whale lineages

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 280, Issue 1768, 2013, Pages

  Foote, Andrew D ^a   Newton, Jason ^b   Ávila Arcos, María C ^a   Kampmann, Marie Louise ^a   Samaniego, Jose A ^a   Post, Klaas ^c   Rosing Asvid, Aqqalu ^d   Sinding, Mikkel Holger S ^a   Gilbert, M Thomas P ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c Natuurhistorisch Museum Rotterdam   (Netherlands)

^d GREENLAND INSTITUTE OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Greenland)

^e MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ancient DNA; Niche; Orcinus orca; Speciation; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

CLUPEOID; INDIVIDUAL VARIATION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NATURAL SELECTION; NICHE; PHYLOGENY; PINNIPED; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); STABLE ISOTOPE; SYMPATRY; TIMESCALE; WHALE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DIET; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; KILLER WHALE; NORTH SEA; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; DIET; GENE FLOW; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HOMING BEHAVIOR; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, GENETIC; NORTH SEA; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; WHALE, KILLER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA;

EID: 84896814514     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.1481     Document Type: Article

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