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Coastal bottlenose dolphins from southeastern Australia are Tursiops aduncus according to sequences of the mitochondrial DNA control region
被引:69
|作者:
Möller, LM
[1
]
Beheregaray, LB
机构:
[1] Macquarie Univ, Grad Sch Environm, N Ryde, NSW 2109, Australia
[2] Macquarie Univ, Dept Biol Sci, N Ryde, NSW 2109, Australia
关键词:
bottlenose dolphin;
Tursiops aduncus;
Tursiops truncatus;
mitochondrial DNA control region;
taxonomy;
phylogenetic analysis;
southeastern Australia;
D O I:
10.1111/j.1748-7692.2001.tb01269.x
中图分类号:
Q17 [水生生物学];
学科分类号:
071004 ;
摘要:
Sequence analysis of the mitochondrial DNA control region was used to clarify the taxonomic status of two coastal bottlenose dolphin populations from southeastern Australia currently classified as Tursiops truncatus. A 368-bp segment of the control region of 57 biopsy-sampled, photo-identified dolphins of Jervis Bay and Port Stephens was compared to published sequences of T. truncatus and T. aduncus from different oceanic regions. Sequence divergence between haplotypes from southeastern Australia and T. aduncus was much lower than that from T. truncatus. Analyses using two different methods of phylogenetic reconstruction unambiguously placed all haplotypes from southeastern Australia in a group composed exclusively of T. aduncus. The results strongly indicated that these two bottlenose dolphin populations belong to T. aduncus, extending the range of the species to subtropical waters of the Western South Pacific Ocean.
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页码:249 / 263
页数:15
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