期刊
JOURNAL OF HEREDITY
卷 102, 期 5, 页码 537-553出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esr067
关键词
effective population size; microsatellite; parentage; pedigree; relatedness; reproductive success
资金
- US National Marine Fisheries Service
We used data from 78 individuals at 26 microsatellite loci to infer parental and sibling relationships within a community of fish-eating (resident) eastern North Pacific killer whales (Orcinus orca). Paternity analysis involving 15 mother/calf pairs and 8 potential fathers and whole-pedigree analysis of the entire sample produced consistent results. The variance in male reproductive success was greater than expected by chance and similar to that of other aquatic mammals. Although the number of confirmed paternities was small, reproductive success appeared to increase with male age and size. We found no evidence that males from outside this small population sired any of the sampled individuals. In contrast to previous results in a different population, many offspring were the result of matings within the same pod (long-term social group). Despite this pattern of breeding within social groups, we found no evidence of offspring produced by matings between close relatives, and the average internal relatedness of individuals was significantly less than expected if mating were random. The population's estimated effective size was < 30 or about 1/3 of the current census size. Patterns of allele frequency variation were consistent with a population bottleneck.
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