Molecular ecology meets remote sensing: Environmental drivers to population structure of humpback dolphins in the Western Indian Ocean

Heredity

Volumn 107, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 349-361

  Mendez, M ^a,b,c   Subramaniam, A ^d   Collins, T ^c,e   Minton, G ^e,f   Baldwin, R ^e   Berggren, P ^g   Sarnblad A ^h   Amir, O A ⁱ   Peddemors, V M ^h,j   Karczmarski, L ^k   Guissamulo, A ^l   Rosenbaum, H C ^a,c  

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

^d International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^e Environment Society of Oman   (Oman)

^f UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SARAWAK   (Malaysia)

^g NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM   (Tanzania)

^j Cronulla Fisheries Reseach Centre   (Australia)

^k UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^l EDUARDO MONDLANE UNIVERSITY   (Mozambique)

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Author keywords

environmental drivers; population structure; remote sensing

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

COASTAL ZONE; DOLPHIN; GENETIC STRUCTURE; HETEROGENEITY; ISOLATED POPULATION; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MOLECULAR ECOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; REMOTE SENSING;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DOLPHIN; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; INDIAN OCEAN; MARINE BIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GENETICS; REMOTE SENSING;

ANIMALS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DOLPHINS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; INDIAN OCEAN; MARINE BIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY;

MOZAMBIQUE; OMAN; SOUTH AFRICA; TANZANIA;

CETACEA;

EID: 80053053529     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: 13652540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/hdy.2011.21     Document Type: Article

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