A worldwide perspective on the population structure and genetic diversity of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in New Zealand

Journal of Heredity

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 11-24

  Tezanos Pinto, Gabriela ^a   Baker, Charles Scott ^a   Russell, Kirsty ^a   Martien, Karen ^b   Baird, Robin W ^c   Hutt, Alistair ^d   Stone, Gregory ^e   Mignucci Giannoni, Antonio A ^f   Caballero, Susana ^a   Endo, Tetusya ^g   Lavery, Shane ^a   Oremus, Marc ^a,h   Olavarría, Carlos ^a,i   Garrigue, Claire ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c CASCADIA RESEARCH COLLECTIVE   (United States)

^d DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION   (New Zealand)

^e NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM   (United States)

^f Red Caribeña de Varamientos ^*  (New Caledonia)

^g HEALTH SCIENCES UNIVERSITY OF HOKKAIDO   (Japan)

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

ⁱ Centro de Estudios del Cuaternario   (Chile)

Author keywords

Bottlenose dolphin; Ecotype; Genetic diversity; New Zealand; Population structure; Tursiops truncatus

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BOTTLENOSE DOLPHIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; ECOTYPE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; NEW ZEALAND; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; DEMOGRAPHY; DOLPHINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; NEW ZEALAND; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYLOGENY;

TURSIOPS; TURSIOPS ADUNCUS; TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS;

EID: 58149090340     PISSN: 00221503     EISSN: 14657333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esn039     Document Type: Article

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