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The influence of glacial epochs and habitat dependence on the diversity and phylogeography of a coastal dolphin species: Lagenorhynchus albirostris

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In this paper we use mitochondrial and microsatellite DNA variation to investigate the mechanisms that underlie the evolution of population structure in a highly mobile marine mammal, the white-beaked dolphin. We found moderate genetic diversity (h) at mtDNA, but low nucleotide diversity (π) (0.7320 ± 0.0031 and 0.0056 ± 0.0004, respectively), consistent with expectations for a recent expansion. Analyses based on mismatch distributions further suggested a demographic expansion in the Norwegian-Barents Sea population and a spatial expansion in the British isles-North Sea population, implying distinct demographic histories. F ST values showed clear differentiation among these two populations, but no difference was found between putative populations separated by the English Channel. Our data suggest a stepwise pattern of expansion, dependent on available coastal habitat. The conservation implications are a need to protect local populations isolated by an expanse of deep water, and in particular, a population along the British coasts and in the North Sea as separate from the North Norway-Barents Sea population. It is also evident that overall diversity was reduced, probably during the last glacial epoch.

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We thank Charlie Shaw, Fernando Gast Harders and Theresa Mackinven for assistance and support. We thank Charlie Potter, Rob Deaville, Mary Harman, Emer Rogan, Mirimin Luca, and staff at the Natural History Museum Rotterdam, National Museum of Natural History (Naturalis) Leiden, and the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History for help with the acquisition of samples (Samples catalogue numbers using in this study for L. albirostris are available from the author). This project was supported by the Programme Alβan, European Union Programme of high level Scholarship for Latin America (Identification number EO3D17203CO); The Alexander von Humboldt Biological Resources Research Institute, the Colombian Institute of Studies Abroad (ICETEX), and Ustinov College, University of Durham. The UK Cetacean Strandings Project, from which many samples were acquired, is funded by UK, The Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs, with further financial support from the Scottish Government.

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Banguera-Hinestroza, E., Bjørge, A., Reid, R.J. et al. The influence of glacial epochs and habitat dependence on the diversity and phylogeography of a coastal dolphin species: Lagenorhynchus albirostris . Conserv Genet 11, 1823–1836 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10592-010-0075-y

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