The influence of glacial epochs and habitat dependence on the diversity and phylogeography of a coastal dolphin species: Lagenorhynchus albirostris

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1823-1836

  Banguera Hinestroza, E ^a   Bjorge A ^b   Reid, R J ^c   Jepson, P ^d   Hoelzel, A R ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^d ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Demographic expansion; Lagenorhynchus; North Atlantic; Phylogeography; Population structure; Spatial expansion; White beaked dolphins

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHY; DOLPHIN; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIATION; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT SELECTION; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BARENTS SEA; ENGLISH CHANNEL; NORTH SEA; NORWAY;

LAGENORHYNCHUS; LAGENORHYNCHUS ALBIROSTRIS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 77956874630     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: 15729737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-010-0075-y     Document Type: Article

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