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A review of molecular genetic markers and analytical approaches that have been used for delimiting marine mammal subspecies and species
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2017
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Source: Marine Mammal Science, 33(S1), 56-75
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Journal Title:Marine Mammal Science
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Description:Uncertainty in marine mammal taxonomy is increasingly being addressed using molecular genetic data. We examined 32 peer-reviewed articles published between 1994 and 2011to review methodological practices, consistency of markers and ana-lytical methods, and overall quality of arguments used when genetic data have beenemployed to delimit new species and subspecies of marine mammals. The mitochon- drial DNA (mtDNA) control region was the primary genetic marker used in these studies, but analytical methods varied greatly across studies. Diagnosability, a com-mon metric for delimiting subspecies with morphological data, was only used through citing of fixed differences in mtDNA sequences. Assignment tests based on
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Source:Marine Mammal Science, 33(S1), 56-75
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ISSN:0824-0469
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Rights Information:CC0 Public Domain
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Rights Statement:This article is a U.S. Government work and is in the public domain in the U.S.A.
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