Microsatellite genetic characterization of the humpback whale (megaptera novaeangliae) breeding ground off Brazil (breeding stock a)

Journal of Heredity

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 189-200

  Cypriano Souza, Ana Lúcia ^a,b   Fernández, Gabriela P ^c   Lima Rosa, Carlos André V ^d   Engel, Márcia H ^b   Bonatto, Sandro L ^a  

^a PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO BALEIA JUBARTE   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^d SANTA CATARINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Bottleneck; Conservation; Demography; Genetic diversity; Migration; Relatedness

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMPBACK WHALE; MALE; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX RATIO;

ANIMALS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BRAZIL; BREEDING; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMPBACK WHALE; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEX DETERMINATION (ANALYSIS); SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

CETACEA; MEGAPTERA; MEGAPTERA NOVAEANGLIAE;

EID: 77249113213     PISSN: 00221503     EISSN: 14657333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esp097     Document Type: Article

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