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Population structure and speciation in the genus Tursiops based on microsatellite and mitochondrial DNA analyses.
Journal of evolutionary biology - 1 Mar 2004
Natoli Ada, Peddemors Victor M, Hoelzel A Rus
Abstract excerpt
Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) have a world-wide distribution, and show morphotypic variation among regions. Distinctions between coastal and pelagic populations have been documented; however, regional patterns of differentiation had not been previously investigated in a wider geographic context. We analysed up to nine different populations from seven different areas of the world by mitochondrial DNA...
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