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Geographic and temporal dynamics of a global radiation and diversification in the killer whale.
Molecular ecology - 1 Aug 2015
Morin Phillip A, Parsons Kim M, Archer Frederick I, Ávila-Arcos María C, Barrett-Lennard Lance G, Dalla Rosa Luciano, Duchêne Sebastián, Durban John W, Ellis Graeme M, Ferguson Steven H, Ford John K, Ford Michael J, Garilao Cristina, Gilbert M Thomas P, Kaschner Kristin, Matkin Craig O, Petersen Stephen D, Robertson Kelly M, Visser Ingrid N, Wade Paul R, Ho Simon Y W, Foote Andrew D
Abstract excerpt
Global climate change during the Late Pleistocene periodically encroached and then released habitat during the glacial cycles, causing range expansions and contractions in some species. These dynamics have played a major role in geographic radiations, diversification and speciation. We investigate these dynamics in the most widely distributed of marine mammals, the killer whale (Orcinus orca), using a global data...
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