A fully updated guide to the increasingly prevalent use of molecular data in ecological
studies Molecular ecology is concerned with how molecular biology and population genetics …

Cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises) are a group of mammals adapted to various
aquatic habitats, from oceans to freshwater rivers. We report the sequencing, de novo …

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 …

Killer whales (Orcinus orca) are currently recognized as a single ecologically and
morphologically diverse, globally distributed species. Multiple morphotypes or ecotypes …

Abstract Humpback dolphins (Sousa spp.), throughout their distribution ranges, are often
designated as flagship species for coastal ecosystem conservation. Most of the early …

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 …

Beaked whales have recently been reported in the South China Sea but with taxonomic
uncertainty due to their ambiguous morphological features. Here, we sequenced three …

Abstract South Asian river dolphins (Platanista gangetica) are among the most endangered
of the world's cetaceans. The two subspecies in the family Platanistidae, Indus, and Ganges …

Coastal and offshore ecotypes of common bottlenose dolphins have been recognized in the
western South Atlantic, and it is possible that trophic niche divergence associated with social …

Obtaining the representative morphological data required for traditional taxonomy is difficult,
and sometimes impossible, for cetaceans, especially large ones. As a result, three quarters …