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Cultural Hitchhiking in the Matrilineal Whales.

Behavior genetics - 1 May 2017

Whitehead Hal, Vachon Felicia, Frasier Timothy R

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Five species of whale with matrilineal social systems (daughters remain with mothers) have remarkably low levels of mitochondrial DNA diversity. Non-heritable matriline-level demography could reduce genetic diversity but the required conditions are not consistent with the natural histories of the matrilineal whales. The diversity of nuclear microsatellites is little reduced in the matrilineal whales arguing...

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PMID: 28275880
DOI: 10.1007/s10519-017-9840-8

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