Fine-scale genetic population structure in a mobile marine mammal: Inshore bottlenose dolphins in Moreton Bay, Australia

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 4472-4485

  Ansmann, Ina C ^a   Parra, Guido J ^b,c   Lanyon, Janet M ^a   Seddon, Jennifer M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c SOUTH AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

conservation genetics; ecological genetics; empirical; mammals; population ecology; population genetics

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BAYES THEOREM; BOTTLENOSE DOLPHIN; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUE; HAPLOTYPE; MALE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION GENETICS;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; BAYES THEOREM; BOTTLE-NOSED DOLPHIN; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUES; HAPLOTYPES; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

MAMMALIA; TURSIOPS; TURSIOPS ADUNCUS;

EID: 84866247881     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2012.05722.x     Document Type: Article

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