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Differential baleen growth and its consequences

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  1. Department of Biology, Hampden-Sydney College, Hampden-Sydney, VA, 23943, USA

    Alexander J. Werth

  2. Department of Wildlife Management, North Slope Borough, Utqiaġvik (Barrow), AK, 99723, USA

    Todd L. Sformo & J. Craig George

  3. Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, 99775, USA

    Todd L. Sformo

  4. Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts-Boston, Boston, MA, 02125, USA

    Nadine S. Lysiak

  5. Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology, and Environmental Science, University of Barcelona, 08028, Barcelona, Spain

    Diego Rita

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Werth, A.J., Sformo, T.L., Lysiak, N.S. et al. Differential baleen growth and its consequences. Polar Biol 44, 1227–1228 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-021-02878-5

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