Insights into genetic diversity, parentage, and group composition of atlantic white-sided dolphins (Lagenorhynchus acutus) off the west of Ireland based on nuclear and mitochondrial genetic markers

Journal of Heredity

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 79-87

  Mirimin, Luca ^a   Banguera Hinestroza, Eulalia ^a   Dillane, Eileen ^a   Hoelzel, Alan R ^a   Cross, Tom F ^a   Rogan, Emer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Atlantic white sided dolphin; Genetic markers; Group composition; Lagenorhynchus acutus; Life history; Parentage analyses

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS DNA; GENOMIC DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MOLECULAR MARKER;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DOLPHIN; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; IRELAND; LAGENORHYNCHUS ACUTUS; MALE; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MOTHER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SPECIES COMPOSITION;

DELPHINIDAE; LAGENORHYNCHUS; LAGENORHYNCHUS ACUTUS;

EID: 78650480812     PISSN: 00221503     EISSN: 14657333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esq106     Document Type: Article

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