Population genetic structure and evolutionary history of North Atlantic beluga whales (Delphinapterus leucas) from West Greenland, Svalbard and the White Sea

This study emphasizes the use of several lines of concordant evidence (phylogenetics, basecomposition, transposon sequences) to infer the evolutionary history of particular gene and enzyme sequences, and the results support the idea that genes coding for adaptive traits, e.g. defensive natural produ...

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Published in:Polar Biology
Main Authors: O’Corry-Crowe, G., Lydersen, C., Heide-Jørgensen, M. P., Hansen, L., Mukhametov, L. M., Dove, O., Kovacs, K. M.
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: Springer-Verlag 2010
Subjects:
Beluga
White whale > Baffin Bay (North Atlantic Ocean)
Microsatellites (Genetics)
Nucleotide sequence
Bayesian statistical decision theory
Svalbard
White Sea
Baffin Bay
Greenland
Baffin
Beluga*
Delphinapterus leucas
North Atlantic
White whale
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-010-0807-y
http://digitool.fcla.edu:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=3166887
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Summary:This study emphasizes the use of several lines of concordant evidence (phylogenetics, basecomposition, transposon sequences) to infer the evolutionary history of particular gene and enzyme sequences, and the results support the idea that genes coding for adaptive traits, e.g. defensive natural products, may be prone to transposition between divergent prokaryotic taxa and genomes. This manuscript is an author version with the final publication available at http://www.springerlink.com and may be cited as: O’Corry-Crowe, G., Lydersen, C., Heide-Jørgensen, M. P., Hansen, L., Mukhametov, L. M., Dove, O., & Kovacs, K. M. (2010). Population genetic structure and evolutionary history of North Atlantic beluga whales (Delphinapterus leucas) from West Greenland, Svalbard and the White Sea. Polar Biology, 33(9), 1179-1194. Florida Atlantic University. Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute contribution #1810.

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