(Table 2) Age determination of harp seals (Pagophilus groenlandicus) from the Barents Sea - comparison of methods

• Main Authors: Garde, Eva, Frie, Anne K, Dunshea, Glenn, Hansen, Steen H, Kovacs, Kit Maureen, Lydersen, Christian
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2010
• Subjects: Ageing; aspartic acid racemization (AAR) in eye lens nuclei; counting growth layer groups (GLG) in teeth; Aspartic acid D/L ratio; Barents Sea; BarentsSea_seal; Biological sample; BIOS; International Polar Year (2007-2008); IPY; Pagophilus groenlandicus; age; standard deviation; Sample ID; Sex; International Polar Year
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.810152; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.810152

Lower jaws (containing the teeth), eyes, and skin samples were collected from harp seals (Pagophilus groenlandicus) in the southeastern Barents Sea for the purpose of comparing age estimates obtained by 3 different methods, the traditional technique of counting growth layer groups (GLGs) in teeth an...