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Sperm whale population structure in the eastern and central North Pacific inferred by the use of single-nucleotide polymorphisms, microsatellites and mitochondrial DNA

  1. SARAH L. MESNICK1,2,
  2. BARBARA L. TAYLOR1,
  3. FREDERICK I. ARCHER1,
  4. KAREN K. MARTIEN1,
  5. SERGIO ESCORZA TREVIÑO3,
  6. BRITTANY L. HANCOCK-HANSER1,
  7. SANDRA CAROLINA MORENO MEDINA4,
  8. VICTORIA L. PEASE1,
  9. KELLY M. ROBERTSON1,
  10. JANICE M. STRALEY5,
  11. ROBIN W. BAIRD6,
  12. JOHN CALAMBOKIDIS6,
  13. GREGORY S. SCHORR6,
  14. PAUL WADE7,
  15. VLADIMIR BURKANOV7,8,
  16. CHRIS R. LUNSFORD9,
  17. LUKE RENDELL10,
  18. PHILLIP A. MORIN1,2

Article first published online: 17 FEB 2011

DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-0998.2010.02973.x

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Molecular Ecology Resources

Molecular Ecology Resources

Special Issue: SNP Development in Non-Model Organisms

Volume 11, Issue Supplement s1, pages 278–298, March 2011

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MESNICK, S. L., TAYLOR, B. L., ARCHER, F. I., MARTIEN, K. K., TREVIÑO, S. E., HANCOCK-HANSER, B. L., MORENO MEDINA, S. C., PEASE, V. L., ROBERTSON, K. M., STRALEY, J. M., BAIRD, R. W., CALAMBOKIDIS, J., SCHORR, G. S., WADE, P., BURKANOV, V., LUNSFORD, C. R., RENDELL, L. and MORIN, P. A. (2011), Sperm whale population structure in the eastern and central North Pacific inferred by the use of single-nucleotide polymorphisms, microsatellites and mitochondrial DNA. Molecular Ecology Resources, 11: 278–298. doi: 10.1111/j.1755-0998.2010.02973.x

Author Information

  1. 1

    Southwest Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 3333 North Torrey Pines Court, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA

  2. 2

    Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA

  3. 3

    Department of Biological Sciences, California State University Los Angeles, 5151 State University Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90032, USA

  4. 4

    Laboratorio de Ecología Molecular, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Km 103 Carretera Tijuana-Ensenada, Ensenada, Baja California 22800, México

  5. 5

    University of Alaska Southeast, Sitka Campus, 1332 Seaward Avenue, Sitka, AK 99835, USA

  6. 6

    Cascadia Research Collective, 218 1/2 W 4th Ave., Olympia, WA 98501, USA

  7. 7

    National Marine Mammal Laboratory, Alaska Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 7600 Sand Point Way NE, Building 4, Seattle, WA 98115, USA

  8. 8

    Kamchatka Branch of the Pacific Geophysical Institute, FEB, RAS, 6 Partizankaya Street, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia

  9. 9

    Auke Bay Laboratory, Alaska Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 11305 Glacier Highway, Juneau, AK 99801, USA

  10. 10

    School of Biology, Bute Medical Building, Queen‘s Terrace, St. Andrews, Fife, KY16 9TS, UK

*Sarah L. Mesnick, Fax: +1 (858) 546 7003; E-mail: sarah.mesnick@noaa.gov

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 17 FEB 2011
  2. Article first published online: 17 FEB 2011
  3. Received 15 August 2010; revision received 17 November 2010; accepted 18 November 2010

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Table S1 List of samples.

Table S2 Groups sampled.

Table S3 Microsatellite primer sets.

Table S4 Primers for all 36 SNP assays.

Table S5 Summary of population structure analyses for mtDNA, microsatellites, SNPs and combined nuclear markers (nDNA), and sensitivity analyses for linked SNP loci.

Table S6 Variable sites among all known mtDNA sperm whale haplotypes globally and GenBank accession numbers.

Table S7 Allele frequencies for each microsatellite locus, by strata.

Table S8 Allele frequencies for each SNP locus, by strata.

Table S9 Pairwise divergence between strata comprised of samples from females and young.

Table S10 Pairwise divergence between Gulf of Alaska males and the three low latitude strata containing females.

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