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Ocean-Wide Conservation Genomics of Blue Whales Suggest New Northern Hemisphere Subspecies.
Molecular ecology - 1 Jan 2025
Wolf Magnus, de Jong Menno J, Janke Axel
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The blue whale is an endangered and globally distributed species of baleen whale with multiple described subspecies, including the morphologically and genetically distinct pygmy blue whale. North Atlantic and North Pacific populations, however, are currently regarded as a single subspecies despite being separated by continental land masses and acoustic call differences. To determine the degree of isolation among...
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