Mitochondrial and nuclear genetic variation across calving lagoons in eastern North Pacific gray whales (Eschrichtius robustus)

Journal of Heredity

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 34-46

  Alter, S Elizabeth ^a   Ramirez, Sergio Flores ^b   Nigenda, Sergio ^b   Ramirez, Jorge Urbán ^b   Bracho, Lorenzo Rojas ^c   Palumbi, Stephen R ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE BAJA CALIFORNIA SUR   (Mexico)

^c Instituto Nacional de Ecologia   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Cetacean; Microsatellite; Population structure

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; ESCHRICHTIUS ROBUSTUS; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MALE; MIGRATION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DETERMINATION; WHALE;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALE; MEXICO; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MITOCHONDRIA; WHALES;

CETACEA; ESCHRICHTIIDAE; ESCHRICHTIUS ROBUSTUS;

EID: 58149090557     PISSN: 00221503     EISSN: 14657333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esn090     Document Type: Article

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