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    Genetic association with boldness and maternal performance in a free-ranging population of grey seals (Halichoerus grypus)

    Individual variation in quantitative traits clearly influence many ecological and evolutionary processes. Moderate to high heritability estimates of personality and life-history traits suggest some level of ge...

    Christine M. Bubac, Catherine I. Cullingham, Janay A. Fox, W. Don Bowen… in Heredity (2021)

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    Genetic diversity from pre-bottleneck to recovery in two sympatric pinniped species in the Northwest Atlantic

    Conservation successes of the past several decades provide natural settings to study post-bottleneck evolutionary processes in species undergoing recovery. Here, we study the impact of demographic change on ge...

    Kristina M. Cammen, Sarah Vincze, A. Sky Heller, Brenna A. McLeod… in Conservation Genetics (2018)

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    Repeatability and reproductive consequences of boldness in female gray seals

    Wild animals show consistent individual variation in behavior across time and/or contexts, now referred to as animal personality. While this variability may have important ecological and evolutionary implicati...

    Christine M. Bubac, David W. Coltman, W. Don Bowen… in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology (2018)

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    A novel approach to quantifying the spatiotemporal behavior of instrumented grey seals used to sample the environment

    Paired with satellite location telemetry, animal-borne instruments can collect spatiotemporal data describing the animal’s movement and environment at a scale relevant to its behavior.

    Laurie L Baker, Joanna E Mills Flemming, Ian D Jonsen, Damian C Lidgard… in Movement Ecology (2015)

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    Mating tactics and mating system of an aquatic-mating pinniped: the harbor seal, Phoca vitulina

    Our best understanding of marine mammal mating systems comes from land-mating pinnipeds. Logistical problems of observing behavior at sea have limited our ability to make inferences about species with aquatic-...

    Daryl J. Boness, W. Don Bowen, Birgit M. Buhleier… in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology (2006)

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    Does male harassment of females contribute to reproductive synchrony in the grey seal by affecting maternal performance?

    We investigated the possibility that male harassment of lactating females differed in relation to time of birth in the grey seal, Halichoerus grypus, on Sable Island, Nova Scotia. This was done by comparing th...

    Daryl J. Boness, W.Don Bowen, Sara J. Iverson in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology (1995)