Composition and chromosomal localization of cetacean highly repetitive DNA with special reference to the blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus

Chromosoma ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 98 (5) ◽  
pp. 323-329 ◽  
Author(s):  
�lfur �rnason ◽  
Bengt Widegren
Keyword(s):  
Special Reference ◽  
Repetitive Dna ◽  
Chromosomal Localization ◽  
Balaenoptera Musculus ◽  
Blue Whale ◽  
Highly Repetitive Dna

Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus) Skin Contains Eumelanin and Pheomelanin

2019 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Blanca Morales-Guerrero ◽  
Diane Gendron ◽  
Laura M. Martinez-Levasseur ◽  
Karina Acevedo-Whitehouse
Keyword(s):  
Balaenoptera Musculus ◽  
Blue Whale

A highly repetitive DNA family is dispersed in small clusters throughout the genome

1986 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 486 ◽  
Author(s):  
R BATISTONI ◽  
R VIGNALI ◽  
A NEGRONI ◽  
F CREMISI ◽  
G BARSACCHIPILONE
Keyword(s):  
Repetitive Dna ◽  
Highly Repetitive Dna ◽  
Small Clusters

Sequence Organization of Simple, Highly Repetitive DNA Elements inBrassicaspecies

1991 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 243-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. R SIBSON ◽  
S. G. HUGHES ◽  
J. A. BRYANT ◽  
P. N. FITCHETT
Keyword(s):  
Repetitive Dna ◽  
Sequence Organization ◽  
Dna Elements ◽  
Highly Repetitive Dna ◽  
Repetitive Dna Elements

Restriction Endonuclease Analysis of Highly Repetitive DNA as a Phylogenetic Tool

1997 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 332-336 ◽  
Author(s):  
V.V. Grechko ◽  
L.V. Fedorova ◽  
A.N. Fedorov ◽  
S.Ya. Slobodyanyuk ◽  
D.M. Ryabinin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Restriction Endonuclease ◽  
Repetitive Dna ◽  
Restriction Endonuclease Analysis ◽  
Highly Repetitive Dna ◽  
Endonuclease Analysis

scholarly journals From conservation genetics to conservation genomics: a genome-wide assessment of blue whales ( Balaenoptera musculus ) in Australian feeding aggregations

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 170925 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine R. M. Attard ◽  
Luciano B. Beheregaray ◽  
Jonathan Sandoval-Castillo ◽  
K. Curt S. Jenner ◽  
Peter C. Gill ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Population Structure ◽  
Adaptive Divergence ◽  
Balaenoptera Musculus ◽  
Blue Whale ◽  
Conservation Genomics ◽  
Next Generation Sequencing Technology ◽  
Genome Wide ◽  
A Genome ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Blue Whales

Genetic datasets of tens of markers have been superseded through next-generation sequencing technology with genome-wide datasets of thousands of markers. Genomic datasets improve our power to detect low population structure and identify adaptive divergence. The increased population-level knowledge can inform the conservation management of endangered species, such as the blue whale ( Balaenoptera musculus ). In Australia, there are two known feeding aggregations of the pygmy blue whale ( B. m. brevicauda ) which have shown no evidence of genetic structure based on a small dataset of 10 microsatellites and mtDNA. Here, we develop and implement a high-resolution dataset of 8294 genome-wide filtered single nucleotide polymorphisms, the first of its kind for blue whales. We use these data to assess whether the Australian feeding aggregations constitute one population and to test for the first time whether there is adaptive divergence between the feeding aggregations. We found no evidence of neutral population structure and negligible evidence of adaptive divergence. We propose that individuals likely travel widely between feeding areas and to breeding areas, which would require them to be adapted to a wide range of environmental conditions. This has important implications for their conservation as this blue whale population is likely vulnerable to a range of anthropogenic threats both off Australia and elsewhere.

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