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A European melting pot of harbour porpoise in the French Atlantic coasts inferred from mitochondrial and nuclear data.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
Alfonsi Eric, Hassani Sami, Carpentier François-Gilles, Le Clec'h Jean-Yves, Dabin Willy, Van Canneyt Olivier, Fontaine Michael C, Jung Jean-Luc
Abstract excerpt
Field surveys have reported a global shift in harbour porpoise distribution in European waters during the last 15 years, including a return to the Atlantic coasts of France. In this study, we analyzed genetic polymorphisms at a fragment of the mitochondrial control region (mtDNA CR) and 7 nuclear microsatellite loci, for 52 animals stranded and by-caught between 2000 and 2010 along the Atlantic coasts of France....
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