Complete mitochondrial genome phylogeographic analysis of killer whales (Orcinus orca) indicates multiple species

Genome Research

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 908-916

  Morin, Phillip A ^a,b   Archer, Frederick I ^a   Foote, Andrew D ^c,d   Vilstrup, Julia ^c   Allen, Eric E ^b   Wade, Paul ^e   Durban, John ^e   Parsons, Kim ^e   Pitman, Robert ^a   Li, Lewyn ^f   Bouffard, Pascal ^f   Nielsen, Sandra C Abel ^c   Rasmussen, Morten ^c   Willerslev, Eske ^c   Gilbert, M Thomas P ^c   Harkins, Timothy ^g  

^a SOUTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^e NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE   (United States)

^f 454 Life Sciences ^*  (United States)

^g Roche Applied Science   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ECOTYPE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; KILLER WHALE; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PREDATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WILDLIFE CONSERVATION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; GEOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OCEANS AND SEAS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WHALE, KILLER;

CETACEA; ORCINUS ORCA;

EID: 77954236362     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.102954.109     Document Type: Article

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