Killer whale nuclear genome and mtdna reveal widespread population bottleneck during the last glacial maximum

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1121-1131

  Moura, Andre E ^a,g   Van Rensburg, Charlene Janse ^a,b   Pilot, Malgorzata ^a   Tehrani, Arman ^c   Best, Peter B ^b   Thornton, Meredith ^b   Plön, Stephanie ^d   De Bruyn, P J Nico ^b   Worley, Kim C ^e   Gibbs, Richard A ^e   Dahlheim, Marilyn E ^f   Hoelzel, Alan Rus ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^c Eurofins Medinet Inc   (Germany)

^d Bayworld   (South Africa)

^e BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f NOAA National Marine Mammal Laboratory   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cetacea; Demographics; Genomics; Population bottleneck

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BOTTLENECK POPULATION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GENOME ANALYSIS; GLACIAL PERIOD; HABITAT; KILLER WHALE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PLEISTOCENE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION SIZE; PREDATOR; PREY; SEA; SOUTH AFRICA;

CETACEA; DEMOGRAPHICS; GENOMICS; POPULATION BOTTLENECK;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME; HAPLOTYPES; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, GENETIC; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME FACTORS; WHALE, KILLER;

EID: 84899534182     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msu058     Document Type: Article

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