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Familial social structure and socially driven genetic differentiation in Hawaiian short-finned pilot whales.
Molecular ecology - 1 Dec 2017
Van Cise Amy M, Martien Karen K, Mahaffy Sabre D, Baird Robin W, Webster Daniel L, Fowler James H, Oleson Erin M, Morin Phillip A
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Social structure can have a significant impact on divergence and evolution within species, especially in the marine environment, which has few environmental boundaries to dispersal. On the other hand, genetic structure can affect social structure in many species, through an individual preference towards associating with relatives. One social species, the short-finned pilot whale (Globicephala macrorhynchus), has...
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