Ecological opportunities and specializations shaped genetic divergence in a highly mobile marine top predator

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 281, Issue 1795, 2014, Pages

  Louis, Marie ^a,b   Fontaine, Michael C ^c,d   Spitz, Jérôme ^e   Schlund, Erika ^a,e   Dabin, Willy ^e   Deaville, Rob ^f   Caurant, Florence ^a   Cherel, Yves ^a   Guinet, Christophe ^a   Simon Bouhet, Benoit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LA ROCHELLE   (France)

^b Grp d'Etud des Cetaces du Cotentin   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^e CNRS Université de La Rochelle   (France)

^f INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bottlenose dolphins; Demographic history; Ecological niches; Morphology; Population genetics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908147834     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2014.1558     Document Type: Article

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