Journal
CONSERVATION GENETICS
Volume 11, Issue 6, Pages 2437-2441Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-010-0121-9
Keywords
Blue whale; Balaenoptera musculus; Microsatellite; Mitochondrial DNA; Australia
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- Australian Defence Department
- Australian Department of Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts [CAEC/14/2002, A19/2006, 2008/017]
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The worldwide distribution of blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus) has not prevented this species from becoming endangered due to twentieth century whaling. In Australia there are two known feeding aggregations of blue whales, which most likely are the pygmy subspecies (B. m. brevicauda). It is unknown whether individuals from these feeding aggregations belong to one breeding stock, or multiple breeding stocks that either share or occupy separate feeding grounds. This was investigated using ten microsatellite loci and mitochondrial DNA control region sequences (N = 110). Both sets of markers revealed no significant genetic structure, suggesting that these whales are likely to belong to the same breeding stock.
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