Estimating Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus) Age Based on an Epigenetic DNA Methylation Clock
ABSTRACT Knowledge of animal age is essential to wildlife managers for obtaining meaningful and accurate insights into demographic parameters. A common approach to aging wildlife, including bears (Ursus spp.), has been extracting a tooth during physical capture and counting the cementum annuli. Limi...
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| Language: | English |
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Wiley
2025-08-01
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| Series: | Ecology and Evolution |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.71870 |
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