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Guidelines and quantitative standards to improve consistency in cetacean subspecies and species delimitation relying on molecular genetic data
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2017
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Source: Marine Mammal Science, 33(S1), 132-155
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Journal Title:Marine Mammal Science
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Description:Taxonomy is an imprecise science that delimits the evolutionary continuum into discrete categories. For marine mammals, this science is complicated by the relative lack of morphological data for taxa that inhabit remote and often vast ranges. Weprovide guidelines to promote consistency in studies relying primarily on moleculargenetic data to delimit cetacean subspecies from both populations and species. These guidelines identify informational needs: basis for the taxonomic hypothesis being tested, description of current taxonomy, description of relevant life history, sampledistribution, sample size, number and sequence length of genetic markers, descrip- tion of measures taken to ensure data quality, summary statistics for the genetic
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Source:Marine Mammal Science, 33(S1), 132-155
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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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