Resource specialisation and the divergence of killer whale populations

• Published in: Heredity
• Main Authors: Hoelzel, A. R., Moura, A. E.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Nature Publication Group for Genetics Society of Great Britain 2015
• Subjects: C182 Evolution; Foote; Moura; Killer Whale; Killer whale
• Online Access: https://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/id/eprint/17519/; https://doi.org/10.1038/hdy.2015.45

Individual resource specialisation is common in natural populations associated with competition and ecological opportunity (see Aroujo et al., 2011), and well known for the killer whale (where social groups specialise) and other delphinid cetaceans (see Hoelzel, 2002). Prey choice affects a predator...