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SUBMITTER: Fontaine MC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5383846 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Fontaine Michaël C MC Thatcher Oliver O Ray Nicolas N Piry Sylvain S Brownlow Andrew A Davison Nicholas J NJ Jepson Paul P Deaville Rob R Goodman Simon J SJ
Royal Society open science 20170301 3
Contact zones between ecotypes are windows for understanding how species may react to climate changes. Here, we analysed the fine-scale genetic and morphological variation in harbour porpoises (<i>Phocoena phocoena</i>) around the UK by genotyping 591 stranded animals at nine microsatellite loci. The data were integrated with a prior study to map at high resolution the contact zone between two previously identified ecotypes meeting in the northern Bay of Biscay. Clustering and spatial analyses r ...[more]