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Spatially Explicit Analysis of Genome-Wide SNPs Detects Subtle Population Structure in a Mobile Marine Mammal, the Harbor Porpoise.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2016
Lah Ljerka, Trense Daronja, Benke Harald, Berggren Per, Gunnlaugsson Þorvaldur, Lockyer Christina, Öztürk Ayaka, Öztürk Bayram, Pawliczka Iwona, Roos Anna, Siebert Ursula, Skóra Krzysztof, Víkingsson Gísli, Tiedemann Ralph
Abstract excerpt
The population structure of the highly mobile marine mammal, the harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena), in the Atlantic shelf waters follows a pattern of significant isolation-by-distance. The population structure of harbor porpoises from the Baltic Sea, which is connected with the North Sea through a series of basins separated by shallow underwater ridges, however, is more complex. Here, we investigated the...
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