Article
Patterns of population structure for inshore bottlenose dolphins along the eastern United States.
The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2000
Richards Vincent P, Greig Thomas W, Fair Patricia A, McCulloch Stephen D, Politz Christine, Natoli Ada, Driscoll Carlos A, Hoelzel A Rus, David Victor, Bossart Gregory D, Lopez Jose V
Abstract excerpt
Globally distributed, the bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) is found in a range of offshore and coastal habitats. Using 15 microsatellite loci and mtDNA control region sequences, we investigated patterns of genetic differentiation among putative populations along the eastern US shoreline (the Indian River Lagoon, Florida, and Charleston Harbor, South Carolina) (microsatellite analyses: n = 125, mtDNA...
Topics
- Alleles
- Animals
- Bottle-Nosed Dolphin
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- Ecosystem
- Evolution, Molecular
- Female
- Genetic Variation
- Genetics, Population
- Genotype