The recent exploitation of marine species is relatively well documented and understood in
terms of impacts on species abundance, distribution, and resource use. In contrast, ancient …

Abstract Common Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus truncatus) are one of the most
abundant marine mammal species in the northern Gulf of Mexico (GOMx), a region where …

Integrative taxonomy can help us to gain a better understanding of the degree of
evolutionary divergence between taxa. In the western North Atlantic (wNA), two ecotypes …

Understanding the evolution of diversity and the resulting systematics in marine systems is
confounded by the lack of clear boundaries in oceanic habitats, especially for highly mobile …

The taxonomy of Tursiops truncatus in the western South Atlantic is not resolved. Two
different hypotheses have been proposed:(1) offshore and coastal ecotypes with a …

The Levantine Basin (LB) is still considered a void as regards its cetacean fauna: species
population abundance and distribution patterns are unknown, and even the list of species …

Cetacean taxonomy continues to be in flux and molecular genetic analyses examining alpha
taxonomy in cetaceans have relied heavily on the mitochondrial DNA control region …

Stranding data provide fundamental information on biometric traits of cetaceans useful to
increase knowledge on ecological traits and their consumption patterns. In this study, the …

Patterns of genetic structure in highly mobile marine vertebrates may be accompanied by
phenotypic variation. Most studies in marine turtles focused on population genetic structure …

This study presents the first comprehensive genetic analyses of common bottlenose dolphin
(T ursiops truncatus) based on mitochondrial DNA and microsatellite loci in the W ider C …