Paternity testing helps fill in family tree for Puget Sound's killer whales

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Paternity testing helps fill in family tree for Puget Sound's killer whales

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In a study published online this month in the Journal of Heredity, NOAA researchers and others, using DNA testing to fill in a missing link in the lives of killer whales that seasonally visit Washington's Puget Sound, have discovered that some of the progeny they studied were the result of matings within the same social subgroups, or pods, that are part of the overall population.

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