Out of the pacific and back again: Insights into the matrilineal history of pacific killer whale ecotypes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Foote, Andrew D ^a   Morin, Phillip A ^b   Durban, John W ^b,c   Willerslev, Eske ^a   Orlando, Ludovic ^a   Gilbert, M Thomas P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c ALASKA FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOPATRY; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CLADISTICS; ECOTYPE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INTERGLACIAL; KILLER WHALE; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; NONHUMAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION MIGRATION; SYMPATRY; ANIMAL; BAYES THEOREM; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; POPULATION GENETICS;

MAMMALIA; ORCINUS ORCA;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; ECOTYPE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYLOGENY; WHALE, KILLER;

EID: 80052954268     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0024980     Document Type: Article

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