Relationship of stranded cetaceans in Thai territorial waters to global populations: Mitochondrial DNA diversity of Cuvier's beaked whale, Indo Pacific finless porpoise, pygmy sperm whale, and dwarf sperm whale ...

• Main Authors: Piboon, Promporn, Kriengsakpichit, Napat, Poommouang, Anocha, Buddhachat, Kittisak, Brown, Janine L., Kampuansai, Jatupol, Chomdej, Siriwadee, Kaewmong, Patcharaporn, Kittiwattanawong, Kongkiat, Nganvongpanit, Korakot
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: SAGE Journals 2022
• Subjects: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified; FOS: Biological sciences; Pacific; Sperm whale
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.25384/sage.c.6021460; https://sage.figshare.com/collections/Relationship_of_stranded_cetaceans_in_Thai_territorial_waters_to_global_populations_Mitochondrial_DNA_diversity_of_Cuvier_s_beaked_whale_Indo_Pacific_finless_porpoise_pygmy_sperm_whale_and_dwarf_sperm_whale/6021460

Cetaceans inhabit oceans throughout the world. Four specific odontocetes, namely Cuvier's beaked whale ( Ziphius cavirostris ), Indo Pacific finless porpoise ( Neophocaena phocaenoides ), pygmy sperm whale ( Kogia breviceps ), and dwarf sperm whale ( Kogia sima ), have occasionally been found stranded along Thailand's coastal waters (the Andaman Sea and the Gulf of Thailand). Although shared haplotypes of each species for many locations have been found, and some species have revealed genetic structure through haplotype networks, cetaceans in Thai waters have never been investigated in terms of comparing haplotypes to those that have existed before. Herein, we have illustrated the matrilineally phylogeographic relationships among worldwide populations through Bayesian Phylogenetic tree computations using Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) and Median-Joining Networks (MJNs). Unique haplotypes of the control region mitochondrial DNA of Thai odontocetes were found for all species. Moreover, a high degree of ...