Population structure of North American beluga whales ( Delphinapterus leucas) based on nuclear DNA microsatellite variation and contrasted with the population structure revealed by mitochondrial DNA variation

• Published in: Molecular Ecology
• Main Authors: BROWN GLADDEN, J. G., FERGUSON, M. M., FRIESEN, M. K., CLAYTON, J. W.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1999
• Subjects: Arctic; Bering Sea; Baffin Bay; Hudson; Hudson Strait; Lawrence River; Baffin; Beluga; Beluga whale; Beluga*; Davis Strait; Delphinapterus leucas; Labrador Sea
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-294x.1998.00559.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1046%2Fj.1365-294X.1998.00559.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1046/j.1365-294X.1998.00559.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1046/j.1365-294X.1998.00559.x

Beluga whales ( Delphinapterus leucas ) in North American waters migrate seasonally between wintering areas in broken pack ice and summering locations in estuaries and other open water areas in the Arctic and sub‐Arctic. Results from our previous investigation of beluga whale mitochondrial DNA (mtDN...