Circumpolar diversity and geographic differentiation of mtDNA in the critically endangered antarctic blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus intermedia)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Sremba, Angela L ^a   Hancock Hanser, Brittany ^b   Branch, Trevor A ^c   LeDuc, Rick L ^b   Baker, C Scott ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; BALAENOPTERA; BALAENOPTERA MUSCULUS INTERMEDIA; BIOPSY; BOTTLENECK POPULATION; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME SIZE; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HAPLOTYPE; LONGEVITY; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION DISPERSAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDICTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SURVIVAL RATE; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS; MALE; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SEA;

BALAENOPTERA MUSCULUS; BALAENOPTERA MUSCULUS INTERMEDIA;

ANIMALS; BALAENOPTERA; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIATION; HAPLOTYPES; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; OCEANS AND SEAS; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 84857844300     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0032579     Document Type: Article

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