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Coming of age: - Do female harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) from the North Sea and Baltic Sea have sufficient time to reproduce in a human influenced environment?

The harbour porpoise is the only cetacean species native to German waters. Since human pressures are suggested to shorten their reproductive lifespan, basic knowledge on reproduction is strongly required. One parameter is the onset of sexual maturity in female harbour porpoises. Therefore, we invest...

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Autores principales: Kesselring, Tina, Viquerat, Sacha, Brehm, Ralph, Siebert, Ursula
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5650184/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29053754
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0186951