Data from: Groups of related belugas (Delphinapterus leucas) travel together during their seasonal migrations in and around Hudson Bay
Social structure involving long-term associations with relatives should facilitate the learning of complex behaviours such as long-distance migration. In and around Hudson Bay (Canada), three stocks of beluga whales form a panmictic unit, but have different migratory behaviours associated with diffe...
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fttriple:oai:gotriple.eu:50|dedup_wf_001::a2ff9a718fa3ef468c3f742b87ba45c8 2023-05-15T15:35:28+02:00 Data from: Groups of related belugas (Delphinapterus leucas) travel together during their seasonal migrations in and around Hudson Bay Colbeck, Gabriel J. Duchesne, Pierre Postma, Lianne D. Lesage, Véronique Hammill, Mike O. Turgeon, Julie Postma, L. D. Duchesne, P. Turgeon, J. Colbeck, G. J. 2013-03-05 https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.q164g en eng Dryad http://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.q164g https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.q164g lic_creative-commons 10.5061/dryad.q164g oai:services.nod.dans.knaw.nl:Products/dans:oai:easy.dans.knaw.nl:easy-dataset:82664 oai:easy.dans.knaw.nl:easy-dataset:82664 10|openaire____::9e3be59865b2c1c335d32dae2fe7b254 10|re3data_____::94816e6421eeb072e7742ce6a9decc5f 10|eurocrisdris::fe4903425d9040f680d8610d9079ea14 re3data_____::r3d100000044 10|re3data_____::84e123776089ce3c7a33db98d9cd15a8 10|openaire____::081b82f96300b6a6e3d282bad31cb6e2 10|opendoar____::8b6dd7db9af49e67306feb59a8bdc52c relatedness Social structure 1986 to 2004 sex-biased group Migration behaviour Cetacea Delphinapterus leucas cetacean Life sciences medicine and health care Hudson Bay South Baffin Island socio scipo Dataset https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_ddb1/ 2013 fttriple https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.q164g 2023-01-22T16:50:54Z Social structure involving long-term associations with relatives should facilitate the learning of complex behaviours such as long-distance migration. In and around Hudson Bay (Canada), three stocks of beluga whales form a panmictic unit, but have different migratory behaviours associated with different summering areas. We analysed genetic variation at 13 microsatellite loci among 1524 belugas, to test hypotheses about social structure in belugas. We found significant proportions of mother–offspring pairs throughout the migratory cycle, but average relatedness extended beyond close kinship only during migration. Average relatedness was significantly above random expectations for pairs caught at the same site but on different days or months of a year, suggesting that belugas maintain associations with a network of relatives during migration. Pairs involving a female (female–female or male–female) were on average more related than pairs of males, and males seemed to disperse from their matrilineal group to associate with other mature males. Altogether, our results indicate that relatives other than strictly parents, and especially females, play a role in maintaining a social structure that could facilitate the learning of migration routes. Cultural conservatism may limit contributions from nearby summer stocks to endangered stocks such as the Eastern Hudson Bay beluga. ColbeckAl_RSPB-2012-2552_DataDryad.xlsxExcel file containing information for 1524 belugas, namely: Code, Location of capture, code of location of capture, Day (if available), month(if available), and year of capture, age (if available), sex (if available), and multilocus genotype at 13 microsatellite loci (in pb, one allele per column) Dataset Baffin Island Baffin Beluga Beluga* Delphinapterus leucas Hudson Bay Unknown Hudson Bay Baffin Island Canada Hudson |
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relatedness Social structure 1986 to 2004 sex-biased group Migration behaviour Cetacea Delphinapterus leucas cetacean Life sciences medicine and health care Hudson Bay South Baffin Island socio scipo Colbeck, Gabriel J. Duchesne, Pierre Postma, Lianne D. Lesage, Véronique Hammill, Mike O. Turgeon, Julie Postma, L. D. Duchesne, P. Turgeon, J. Colbeck, G. J. Data from: Groups of related belugas (Delphinapterus leucas) travel together during their seasonal migrations in and around Hudson Bay |
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relatedness Social structure 1986 to 2004 sex-biased group Migration behaviour Cetacea Delphinapterus leucas cetacean Life sciences medicine and health care Hudson Bay South Baffin Island socio scipo |
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Social structure involving long-term associations with relatives should facilitate the learning of complex behaviours such as long-distance migration. In and around Hudson Bay (Canada), three stocks of beluga whales form a panmictic unit, but have different migratory behaviours associated with different summering areas. We analysed genetic variation at 13 microsatellite loci among 1524 belugas, to test hypotheses about social structure in belugas. We found significant proportions of mother–offspring pairs throughout the migratory cycle, but average relatedness extended beyond close kinship only during migration. Average relatedness was significantly above random expectations for pairs caught at the same site but on different days or months of a year, suggesting that belugas maintain associations with a network of relatives during migration. Pairs involving a female (female–female or male–female) were on average more related than pairs of males, and males seemed to disperse from their matrilineal group to associate with other mature males. Altogether, our results indicate that relatives other than strictly parents, and especially females, play a role in maintaining a social structure that could facilitate the learning of migration routes. Cultural conservatism may limit contributions from nearby summer stocks to endangered stocks such as the Eastern Hudson Bay beluga. ColbeckAl_RSPB-2012-2552_DataDryad.xlsxExcel file containing information for 1524 belugas, namely: Code, Location of capture, code of location of capture, Day (if available), month(if available), and year of capture, age (if available), sex (if available), and multilocus genotype at 13 microsatellite loci (in pb, one allele per column) |
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Colbeck, Gabriel J. Duchesne, Pierre Postma, Lianne D. Lesage, Véronique Hammill, Mike O. Turgeon, Julie Postma, L. D. Duchesne, P. Turgeon, J. Colbeck, G. J. |
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Data from: Groups of related belugas (Delphinapterus leucas) travel together during their seasonal migrations in and around Hudson Bay |
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Data from: Groups of related belugas (Delphinapterus leucas) travel together during their seasonal migrations in and around Hudson Bay |
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Data from: Groups of related belugas (Delphinapterus leucas) travel together during their seasonal migrations in and around Hudson Bay |
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Data from: Groups of related belugas (Delphinapterus leucas) travel together during their seasonal migrations in and around Hudson Bay |
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Data from: Groups of related belugas (Delphinapterus leucas) travel together during their seasonal migrations in and around Hudson Bay |
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data from: groups of related belugas (delphinapterus leucas) travel together during their seasonal migrations in and around hudson bay |
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Hudson Bay Baffin Island Canada Hudson |
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Baffin Island Baffin Beluga Beluga* Delphinapterus leucas Hudson Bay |
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Baffin Island Baffin Beluga Beluga* Delphinapterus leucas Hudson Bay |
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