Table 1.
Genetic variation of blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus) in this study and previous studies.
| microsatellites |
mtDNA control region |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| no. samples, n | no. loci | mean no. alleles (±s.d.) | mean allelic richness | mean observed heterozygosity, HO (±s.d.) | mean expected heterozygosity, HE (±s.d.) | no. samples, n | fragment size (bp) | no. haplotypes | haplotype diversity, h (±s.d.) | nucleotide diversity, π (±s.d.) | source | |
| Australia (B. m. brevicauda) | 109 | 20 | 6.00 (3.06) | 6.00 | 0.602 (0.194) | 0.600 (0.188) | 89 | 414 | 14 | 0.680 (0.053) | 0.003 (0.002) | this study |
| 47 | 10 | 6.70 (2.79) | — | 0.659 (0.022) | 0.655 (0.042) | 67 | 394 | 14 | 0.683 (0.062) | 0.003 (0.002) | [4]a | |
| 25 | 10 | 5.80 (2.25) | — | 0.590 (0.031) | 0.625 (0.043) | 32 | 394 | 9 | 0.758 (0.070) | 0.004 (0.003) | [4]a | |
| Antarctica (B. m. intermedia) | 142 | 20 | 11.65 (5.46) | 11.31 | 0.758 (0.130) | 0.763 (0.133) | 140 | 414 | 46 | 0.968 (0.005) | 0.014 (0.008) | this study |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | 183 | 410 | 52 | 0.968 (0.004) | 0.014 (0.007) | [6] | |
| 46 | 7 | 10.43 (2.70) | — | 0.752 (0.145) | — | 47 | 414 | 26 | 0.969 (0.010) | — | [10] | |
| Chile (B. m. brevicauda; putatively novel subspecies [14]) | 52 | 7 | 7.71 (3.04) | — | 0.692 (0.160) | 0.730 (0.147) | 46 | 360 | 12 | 0.890 (0.019) | 0.011 (0.001) | [7] |
| Mexico (B. m. musculus) | 187 | 9 | 9.6 (2.4) | — | 0.74 (0.03) | 0.74 (0.09) | — | — | — | — | — | [5] |
aSeparate feeding grounds.