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

• 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

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.