Spatiotemporal segregation among summer stocks of beluga (Delphinapterus leucas) despite nuclear gene flow: Implication for the endangered belugas in Eastern Hudson Bay (Canada)

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 419-433

  Turgeon, Julie ^a   Duchesne, Pierre ^a   Colbeck, Gabriel J ^a,b   Postma, Lianne D ^c   Hammill, Mike O ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b MARYVILLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FRESHWATER INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^d MAURICE LAMONTAGNE INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Beluga; Hudson Bay; Microsatellites; Migratory connectivity; Mixed stock analysis; mtDNA

Indexed keywords

CONNECTIVITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DEMOGRAPHY; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GENE FLOW; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIATION; HARVESTING; HUNTING; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; MIGRATION ROUTE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; POPULATION MODELING; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STOCK ASSESSMENT; WHALE;

CANADA; HUDSON BAY;

ANIMALIA; DELPHINAPTERUS; DELPHINAPTERUS LEUCAS;

EID: 84858002780     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: 15729737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-011-0294-x     Document Type: Article

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