Population structure of South Pacific humpback whales and the origin of the eastern Polynesian breeding grounds

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 330, Issue , 2007, Pages 257-268

  Olavarria C ^a,b   Baker, C Scott ^a,n   Garrigue, C ^c   Poole, M ^d   Hauser, N ^e   Caballero, S ^a,f   Florez Gonzalez L ^f   Brasseur, M ^g   Bannister, J ^h   Capella, J ^f   Clapham, P ⁱ   Dodemont, R ^c   Donoghue, M ^j   Jenner, C ^k   Jenner, M N ^k   Moro, D ^g,o   Oremus, M ^a,d   Paton, D ^l   Rosenbaum, H ^m   Russell, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b Centre for Quaternary Research Punta Arenas   (Chile)

^c Opération Cétacés ^*  (New Caledonia)

^d Centre de Biologie et d Ecologie Tropicale et Méditerranéenne   (French Polynesia)

^e Cook Islands Whale Research ^*  (Cook Islands)

^f Fundacion Yubarta Valle del Cauca   (Colombia)

^g EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^h WESTERN AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

ⁱ NOAA National Marine Mammal Laboratory   (United States)

^j DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION   (New Zealand)

^k Centre for Whale Research   (Australia)

^l SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^m DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

ⁿ OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^o BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

Indian Ocean; Megaptera novaeangliae; mtDNA; Oceania; Stock structure; Whaling

Indexed keywords

BREEDING SITE; COLONIZATION; MIGRATION ROUTE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SUBPOPULATION; WHALE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; COLOMBIA; COOK ISLANDS; INDIAN OCEAN; MELANESIA; NEW CALEDONIA [MELANESIA]; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; POLYNESIA; SOUTH AMERICA; TONGA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

CETACEA; MEGAPTERA; MEGAPTERA NOVAEANGLIAE;

EID: 33847237651     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps330257     Document Type: Article

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