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Differences in foraging ecology align with genetically divergent ecotypes of a highly mobile marine top predator.
Oecologia - 1 Dec 2015
Jeglinski Jana W E, Wolf Jochen B W, Werner Christiane, Costa Daniel P, Trillmich Fritz
Abstract excerpt
Foraging differentiation within a species can contribute to restricted gene flow between ecologically different groups, promoting ecological speciation. Galapagos sea lions (Zalophus wollebaeki) show genetic and morphological divergence between the western and central archipelago, possibly as a result of an ecologically mediated contrast in the marine habitat. We use global positioning system (GPS) data,...
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