A European Melting Pot of Harbour Porpoise in the French Atlantic Coasts Inferred from Mitochondrial and Nuclear Data

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Alfonsi, Eric ^a,b   Hassani, Sami ^a   Carpentier, François Gilles ^a   Le Clec'h, Jean Yves ^a   Dabin, Willy ^c   Van Canneyt, Olivier ^c   Fontaine, Michael C ^d,e,f   Jung, Jean Luc ^a  

^a BioGemme Laboratory   (France)

^b Universite de Bretagne Occidentale   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LA ROCHELLE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^e MUSÉE DE L HOMME   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; FEMALE; FRANCE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INHERITANCE; MALE; MATING; MELTING POT; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOCOENA PHOCOENA; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; POPULATION GENETICS; PORPOISE; SEASHORE; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES HABITAT;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FRANCE; GENETIC VARIATION; HAPLOTYPES; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; PHENOTYPE; PHOCOENA; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPAIN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; PHOCOENIDAE;

EID: 84866324426     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0044425     Document Type: Article

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