Table 7. Species, regional population, sequenced base pair length (bp), sample size (n), number of haplotypes (ĥ), haplotype diversity (h) and nucleotide diversity (π) for mtDNA haplotypes for several species of great baleen whales in comparison with blue whales.

Species\subspecies	Regional population	bp	n	ĥ	h (SD)	π (%) (SD)	Reference
Blue whale
B. musculus
B. m. brevicauda	Indian Ocean	414	36	12	0.765 (0.070)	n.a.	[15]
B. m. brevicauda	South-east Pacific Ocean	414	28	10	0.852 (0.042)	n.a.	[15]
B. m. brevicauda	Bonney Upwelling	396	32	9	0.758 (0.070)	0.40 (0.30)	[45]
	Perth Canyon	396	67	14	0.683 (0.062)	0.30 (0.20)	[45]
B. m. intermedia	Southern Ocean	414	47	26	0.987 (0.010)	n.a,	[15]
	Southern Ocean	410	183	52	0.968 (0.004)	1.61 (0.86)	this study
Southern Right Whale
E. australis	South Atlantic basin	275	69	28	0.948 (0.013)	2.90 (1.51)	[10]
	Indo-Pacific basin	275	67	7	0.701 (0.037)	2.03 (1.09)	[10]
North Atlantic Right Whale	Western North Atlantic	500	269	5	0.698 (0.016)	0.60 (0.30)	[69]
E. glacialis							[70]
North Pacific Right Whale	North Pacific	540	5	2	0.600 (0.129)	1.89 (1.22)	[70]
E. japonica							[71]
Gray Whale
E. robustus	western Pacific	523	45	10	0.70 (0.05)	1.7 (n.a.)	[72]
	eastern Pacific	523	120	33	0.95 (0.01)	1.6 (n.a.)	[72]
Humpback Whale
M. novaeangliae	South Pacific	470	1,112	115	0.975 (0.001)	2.04 (1.03)	[11]
	Worldwide	283	90	37	0.88	2.57 (n.a.)	[47]
Minke Whale
B. bonaerensis	Brazil	500	61	47	n.a.	1.6 (0.1)	[73]
	Antarctic	500	119	83	n.a.	1.5 (0.1)	[73]
B. acutorostrata	eastern North Pacific	500	6	5	n.a.	0.6 (0.2)	[73]
	western North Pacific	500	127	34	n.a.	1.0 (0.5)	[73]
	Sea of Japan	500	28	3	n.a.	0.6 (0.1)	[73]
	Brazil	500	8	3	n.a.	1.2 (0.6)	[73]
	Antarctic	500	15	8	n.a.	0.7 (0.1)	[73]
Bowhead whale
B. mysticetus	Bering-Chukchi-Beaufort Seas	493	98	68	0.986 (0.005)	1.63 (0.09)	[74]