Cultural transmission of tool use combined with habitat specializations leads to fine-scale genetic structure in bottlenose dolphins

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 281, Issue 1782, 2014, Pages

  Kopps, Anna M ^a,b   Ackermann, Corinne Y ^b   Sherwin, William B ^a,c   Allen, Simon J ^c   Bejder, Lars ^c   Krützen, Michael ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bottlenose dolphin; Cultural hitchhiking; Genetic structure; Social learning; Tursiops sp.

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL CHANGE; DOLPHIN; GENETIC STRUCTURE; HABITAT TYPE; LEARNING; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; SPECIALIZATION; TOOL USE;

AUSTRALIA; SHARK BAY; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84898713258     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.3245     Document Type: Article

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