Chemical fingerprints encode mother-offspring similarity, colony membership, relatedness, and genetic quality in fur seals

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 36, 2015, Pages E5005-E5012

  Stoffel, Martin A ^a,b   Caspers, Barbara A ^a   Forcada, Jaume ^c   Giannakara, Athina ^a   Baier, Markus ^a   Eberhart Phillips, Luke ^a   Müller, Caroline ^a   Hoffman, Joseph I ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chemical communication; GC MS; Genotype; Mother offspring recognition; Pinniped

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARCTOCEPHALUS GAZELLA; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CHEMICAL CUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOSITY; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MOTHER; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RECOGNITION; SKIN; ANIMAL; ANTARCTICA; ASSOCIATION; BAYES THEOREM; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENT; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; OTARIIDAE; POPULATION GENETICS;

MICROSATELLITE DNA; PHEROMONE;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; BAYES THEOREM; CUES; ENVIRONMENT; FUR SEALS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; PHEROMONES; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SKIN;

EID: 84941133365     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1506076112     Document Type: Article

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