Conservation genetics of the short-beaked common dolphin (Delphinus delphis) in the Mediterranean Sea and in the eastern North Atlantic Ocean

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1479-1487

  Natoli, Ada ^a   Cañadas, Ana ^b   Vaquero, Concepción ^c   Politi, Elena ^d   Fernandez Navarro, Pablo ^e   Hoelzel, A Rus ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Universidad Autónoma de Madrid ^*  (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^d Tethys Research Institute and IUCN Task Force on Marine Mammal Protected Areas   (Italy)

^e INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

Author keywords

Common dolphin; Conservation; Mediterranean Sea; Population genetics

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSERVATION GENETICS; DOLPHIN; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EVOLUTION; GENE FLOW; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GENETIC MARKER; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; MEDITERRANEAN WATER; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION SIZE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RED LIST; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ALBORAN SEA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST); BLACK SEA; EURASIA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

DELPHINUS DELPHIS;

EID: 55949119021     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: 15729737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-007-9481-1     Document Type: Article

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