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SUBMITTER: Cunha HA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4641715 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cunha Haydée A HA de Castro Rocio Loizaga RL Secchi Eduardo R ER Crespo Enrique A EA Lailson-Brito José J Azevedo Alexandre F AF Lazoski Cristiano C Solé-Cava Antonio M AM
PloS one 20151111 11
The taxonomy of common dolphins (Delphinus sp.) has always been controversial, with over twenty described species since the original description of the type species of the genus (Delphinus delphis Linnaeus, 1758). Two species and four subspecies are currently accepted, but recent molecular data have challenged this view. In this study we investigated the molecular taxonomy of common dolphins through analyses of cytochrome b sequences of 297 individuals from most of their distribution. We include ...[more]