Population genetic structure and social kin associations of franciscana dolphin, pontoporia blainvillei

Journal of Heredity

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 92-102

  Costa Urrutia, Paula ^a   Abud, Carolina ^a   Secchi, Eduardo R ^b   Lessa, Enrique P ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Fine scale population structure; Local adaptation; Matrilines; Social structure

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; DOLPHIN; GENE FLOW; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HETEROZYGOSITY; NONHUMAN; PONTOPORIA BLAINVILLEI; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL STRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BAYES THEOREM; BRAZIL; DOLPHINS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FEMALE; GENETIC STRUCTURES; GENETIC VARIATION; HAPLOTYPES; MALE; MARKOV CHAINS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MITOCHONDRIA; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; URUGUAY;

EID: 83255189596     PISSN: 00221503     EISSN: 14657333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esr103     Document Type: Article

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