Cultural transmission within maternal lineages: vocal clans in resident killer whales in southern Alaska

By H. Yurk, L. Barrett‐Lennard, John K. B. Ford, C. Matkin. 2002

269 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Developmental Biology, Ecology, Oceanography

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In Developmental Biology

1. John K. B. Ford
2. G. Ellis
3. Hal Whitehead
4. Luke Rendell
5. J. Durban
6. C. Matkin
7. Shane Gero
8. D. Engelhaupt

In Ecology

1. John K. B. Ford
2. G. Ellis
3. J. Durban
4. Hal Whitehead
5. L. Barrett‐Lennard
6. C. Matkin
7. Luke Rendell
8. Shane Gero

In Oceanography

1. John K. B. Ford
2. J. Durban
3. C. Matkin
4. R. Riesch
5. G. Ellis
6. Hal Whitehead
7. P. Miller
8. K. Balcomb

Citations in the corpus

• Cultural traditions and the evolution of reproductive isolation: ecological speciation in killer whales? (2012, background): “In the eastern North Pacific, the genetic distance based on nuclear DNA is greatest between resident and transient ecotypes, and FST values (fixation index; Weir & Cockerham, 1984) clearly suggest some degree of reproductive isolation between the two (e.g. Hoelzel et al., 1998, 2007; Morin et al., 2”
• Multilevel Societies of Female Sperm Whales (Physeter macrocephalus) in the Atlantic and Pacific: Why Are They So Different? (2012, background): “Matrilineal groups that have similar vocal repertoires spend the majority of their time traveling together as members of the same pod, and distinctive vocal repertoires can be used to identify pod membership unambiguously (Yurk et al. 2002).”
• The Evolution of Tag-Based Cooperation in Humans (2012, background): “…variability in animal vocalizations (broadly construed) is the subject of much current research across a range of species, including killer whales (Yurk et al. 2002), bottlenose dolphins (Janik, Sayigh, and Wells 2006), wild chimpanzees (e.g., Herbinger et al. 2009), greater spear-nosed bats…”
• Call-type matching in vocal exchanges of free-ranging resident killer whales, Orcinus orca (2004, background): “Calls are apparently acquired by social learning (Yurk et al. 2002), and coarse observations suggest that call types are not context specific but are interchangeable across behaviours (Ford 1989).”
• Ongoing population-level impacts on killer whales Orcinus orca following the 'Exxon Valdez' oil spill in Prince William Sound, Alaska (2008, background): “Despite traveling with AJ pod for over a decade, the AB25 sub-pod still uses calls unique to the AB Pod dialect (Yurk et al. 2002, Yurk 2005).”
• The social dynamics of southern resident killer whales and conservation implications for this endangered population (2009, background): “…provide the opportunity for cultural transmission and social learning (Giraldeau et al. 1994; Deecke et al. 2000; Rendell & Whitehead 2001; Yurk et al. 2002), this structuring also affects population permeability in terms of disease transmission (Altizer et al. 2003; Cross et al. 2004).”