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Phylogenetic relationships in southern African Bryde's whales inferred from mitochondrial DNA : further support for subspecies delineation between the two allopatric populations

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12/2018
Author
Penry, Gwenith Susan
Hammond, Philip Steven
Cockcroft, Vic G
Best, Peter B
Thornton, Meredith
Graves, Jefferson Alden
Keywords
Bryde’s whale
Balaenoptera edeni
Balaenoptera brydei
Southern Africa
MtDNA control region
Phylogenetics
QH301 Biology
T-NDAS
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Bryde’s whales (Balaenoptera edeni) are medium-sized balaenopterids with tropical and subtropical distribution. There is confusion about the number of species, subspecies and populations of Bryde’s whale found globally. Two eco-types occur off South Africa, the inshore and offshore forms, but with unknown relationship between them. Using the mtDNA control region we investigated the phylogenetic relationship of these populations to each other and other Bryde’s whale populations. Skin, baleen and bone samples were collected from biopsy-sampled individuals, strandings and museum collections. 97 sequences of 674 bp (bp) length were compared with published sequences of Bryde’s whales (n = 6) and two similar species, Omura’s (B. omurai) and sei (B. borealis) whales (n = 3). We found eight haplotypes from the study samples: H1–H4 formed a distinct, sister clade to pelagic populations of Bryde’s whales (B. brydei) from the South Pacific, North Pacific and Eastern Indian Ocean. H5–H8 were included in the pelagic clade. H1–H4 represented samples from within the distributional range of the inshore form. Pairwise comparisons of the percentage of nucleotide differences between sequences revealed that inshore haplotypes differed from published sequences of B. edeni by 4.7–5.5% and from B. brydei by 1.8–2.1%. Ten fixed differences between inshore and offshore sequences supported 100% diagnosability as subspecies. Phylogenetic analyses grouped the South African populations within the Bryde’s-sei whale clade and excluded B. edeni. Our data, combined with morphological and ecological evidence from previous studies, support subspecific classification of both South African forms under B. brydei and complete separation from B. edeni.
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Penry , G S , Hammond , P S , Cockcroft , V G , Best , P B , Thornton , M & Graves , J A 2018 , ' Phylogenetic relationships in southern African Bryde's whales inferred from mitochondrial DNA : further support for subspecies delineation between the two allopatric populations ' , Conservation Genetics , vol. 19 , no. 6 , pp. 1349-1365 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s10592-018-1105-4
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Conservation Genetics
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Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10592-018-1105-4
ISSN
1566-0621
Type
Journal article
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© 2018, Springer Nature. This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created accepted version manuscript following peer review and as such may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/0.1007/s10592-018-1105-4
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/18497

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