Chemical patterns of colony membership and mother-offspring similarity in Antarctic fur seals are reproducible.

• Published in: PeerJ
• Main Authors: Tebbe, Jonas, Humble, Emily, Stoffel, Martin Adam, Tewes, Lisa Johanna, Müller, Caroline, Forcada, Jaume, Caspers, Barbara, Hoffman, Joseph Ivan
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: PeerJ Inc. 2020
• Subjects: Antarctic; Bird Island; Antarc*; Antarctic Fur Seals; Arctocephalus gazella
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/528827/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/528827/1/peerj-10131.pdf; https://peerj.com/articles/10131/#

Replication studies are essential for evaluating the validity of previous research findings. However, it has proven challenging to reproduce the results of ecological and evolutionary studies, partly because of the complexity and lability of many of the phenomena being investigated, but also due to...