Authors
Michaël C Fontaine, Stuart JE Baird, Sylvain Piry, Nicolas Ray, Krystal A Tolley, Sarah Duke, Alexei Birkun, Marisa Ferreira, Thierry Jauniaux, Angela Llavona, Bayram Öztürk, Ayaka A Öztürk, Vincent Ridoux, Emer Rogan, Marina Sequeira, Ursula Siebert, Gisli A Vikingsson, Jean-Marie Bouquegneau, Johan R Michaux
Publication date
2007/12
Journal
BMC biology
Volume
5
Pages
1-16
Publisher
BioMed Central
Description
Background
Understanding the role of seascape in shaping genetic and demographic population structure is highly challenging for marine pelagic species such as cetaceans for which there is generally little evidence of what could effectively restrict their dispersal. In the present work, we applied a combination of recent individual-based landscape genetic approaches to investigate the population genetic structure of a highly mobile extensive range cetacean, the harbour porpoise in the eastern North Atlantic, with regards to oceanographic characteristics that could constrain its dispersal.
Results
Analyses of 10 microsatellite loci for 752 individuals revealed that most of the sampled range in the eastern North Atlantic behaves as a 'continuous' population that widely extends over thousands of kilometres with significant isolation by distance (IBD). However …
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