Rise of oceanographic barriers in continuous populations of a cetacean: the genetic structure of harbour porpoises in Old World waters

Background: Understanding the role of seascape in shaping genetic and demographic population structure is highly challenging for marine pelagic species such as cetaceans for which there is generally little evidence of what could effectively restrict their dispersal. In the present work, we applied a...

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Published in:BMC Biology
Main Authors: Duke, Sarah, Fontaine, Michael C., Baird, Stuart J. E., Piry, Sylvain, Ray, Nicolas, Tolley, Krystal A., Birkun, Alexei, Ferreira, Marisa, Jauniaux, Thierry, Llavona, Angela, Oeztuerk, Ayaka A., Ridoux, Vincent, Rogan, Emer, Sequeira, Marina, Siebert, Ursula, Vikingsson, Gisli A., Bouquegneau, Jean-Marie, Michaux, Johan R., Oeztuerk, Bayram
Other Authors: ,, 183452
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2021
Subjects:
Temel Tıp Bilimleri
BİYOLOJİ
Biyoloji ve Biyokimya
Yaşam Bilimleri (LIFE)
Tıp
Sağlık Bilimleri
Biyokimya
Tıbbi Biyoloji
Yaşam Bilimleri
Temel Bilimler
Harbour porpoise
North Atlantic
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12627/123902
https://doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-5-30
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Summary:Background: Understanding the role of seascape in shaping genetic and demographic population structure is highly challenging for marine pelagic species such as cetaceans for which there is generally little evidence of what could effectively restrict their dispersal. In the present work, we applied a combination of recent individual-based landscape genetic approaches to investigate the population genetic structure of a highly mobile extensive range cetacean, the harbour porpoise in the eastern North Atlantic, with regards to oceanographic characteristics that could constrain its dispersal.

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