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Mitochondrial DNA phylogeography of the harbour porpoise Phocoena phocoena in the North Pacific

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Genetic structure and phylogeography of the harbour porpoise Phocoena phocoena in the North Pacific were examined using 358 bps sequences from the 5′ end of the mitochondrial DNA control region including those reported previously and newly obtained from the west Pacific. AMOVA and pairwise population φ st estimates clearly revealed genetic differentiation between an east/south and a north/northwest group with the break along the Pacific Rim at British Columbia. In addition, nested clade phylogeographical analysis, neutrality tests, mismatch distribution analysis, genetic diversities and Mantel test, suggested that the observed genetic structure might have been influenced by contiguous range expansion with restricted gene flow in the direction from south to north along the North American coasts and east to west along the Pacific Rim in the middle to late Pleistocene.

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Acknowledgments

We thank Reusch TBH and three anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments on the manuscript. We are grateful to all the fishermen, researchers, volunteers, and institutes that contributed to the collection of the samples used in present study, with special thanks to the staffs at Otaru Aquarium, Hokkaido, and Kamogawa Seaworld, Chiba, and Drs Hajime Ishikawa, the Institute of Cetacean Research, Tokyo, Shinsuke Tanabe, Ehime University, Ehime, and Tadasu K. Yamada, the National Science Museum, Tokyo. We would also like to thank Drs Luis A. Pastene, the Institute of Cetacean Research, Tokyo and Noriko Azuma, Hokkaido University, Hokkaido, for their constructive comments. This work was partly supported by the Sasagawa Scientific Research Grant from the Japan Science Society.

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  1. Graduate School of Fisheries Sciences, Hokkaido University, 3-1-1 Minato-cho, Hakodate, Hokkaido, 041-8611, Japan

    Mioko Taguchi, Takashi Matsuishi & Syuiti Abe

  2. National Marine Fisheries Service, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, 3333 North Torrey Pines Court, La Jolla, CA, 92037-1022, USA

    Susan J. Chivers

  3. National Marine Fisheries Service, Southeast Fisheries Science Center, 646 Cajundome Blvd., Suite 234, Lafayette, LA, 70506-4291, USA

    Patricia E. Rosel

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Taguchi, M., Chivers, S.J., Rosel, P.E. et al. Mitochondrial DNA phylogeography of the harbour porpoise Phocoena phocoena in the North Pacific. Mar Biol 157, 1489–1498 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-010-1423-7

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