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Habitat structure and the dispersal of male and female bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus).
Proceedings. Biological sciences - 22 Jun 2005
Natoli Ada, Birkun Alexei, Aguilar Alex, Lopez Alfredo, Hoelzel A Rus
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Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) are widely distributed and a high degree of morphometric and genetic differentiation has been found among both allopatric and parapatric populations. We analysed 145 samples along a contiguous distributional range from the Black Sea to the eastern North Atlantic for mitochondrial and nuclear genetic diversity, and found population structure with boundaries that coincided...
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