Fidelity to migratory destinations is an important driver of connectivity in marine and avian species. Here we assess the role of maternally directed learning of migratory habitats, or migratory culture, on the population structure of the endangered Australian and New Zealand southern right whale. Using DNA profiles, comprising mitochondrial DNA...
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E. L. Carroll1,2*, C. S. Baker3,4, M. Watson5, R. Alderman6, J. Bannister7, O. E
Fidelity to migratory destinations is an important driver of connectivity in marine and avian species. Here we assess the role of maternally directed learning of migratory habitats, or migratory culture, on the population structure of the endangered Australian and New Zealand southern right whale. Using DNA profiles, comprising mitochondrial DNA...
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Carroll, E. L., Baker, C. S., Watson, M., Alderman, R., Bannister, J., Gaggiotti, O.
E., ... & Harcourt
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The uncertainty in decay energy for those fission products
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power was evaluated. The methodology used assigned significantly
larger uncertainties for data which were theoretically
predicted than it did for experimentally determined
data. The uncertainty was modeled as an increasing function
of distance from beta...
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