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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Main Authors: Susannah P. Woodruff, Milda Milčiūtė, Juozas Gordevičius, Robert Brooke, Todd C. Atwood
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2025-08-01
Series:Ecology and Evolution
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.71870
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