Cultural Hitchhiking in the Matrilineal Whales

Behavior Genetics

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 324-334

  Whitehead, Hal ^a   Vachon, Felicia ^a   Frasier, Timothy R ^b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b SAINT MARY S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bottleneck; Cultural hitchhiking; Culture; Matrilineal whale; Mitochondrial DNA; Selection

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL SOCIETY; ARTICLE; CETACEA; COEVOLUTION; CULTURAL HITCHHIKING; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; KILLER WHALE; MATRILINEAL SOCIAL SYSTEM; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PILOT WHALE; SELECTIVE SWEEP; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPERM WHALE; ANIMAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS;

ANIMALS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; WHALES;

EID: 85014633307     PISSN: 00018244     EISSN: 15733297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10519-017-9840-8     Document Type: Article

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