About the Authors

María Quintela

Affiliations Dept. of Population Genetics, Institute of Marine Research, Bergen, Norway, BIOCOST Research Group, Dept. of Animal Biology, Plant Biology and Ecology, University of A Coruña, A Coruña, Spain

Hans J. Skaug

Affiliations Dept. of Population Genetics, Institute of Marine Research, Bergen, Norway, Department of Mathematics, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

Nils Øien

Affiliation Dept. of Marine Mammals, Institute of Marine Research, Bergen, Norway

Tore Haug

Affiliation Dept. of Marine Mammals, Institute of Marine Research, Tromsø, Norway

Bjørghild B. Seliussen

Affiliation Dept. of Population Genetics, Institute of Marine Research, Bergen, Norway

Hiroko K. Solvang

Affiliation Dept. of Marine Mammals, Institute of Marine Research, Bergen, Norway

Christophe Pampoulie

Affiliation Marine Research Institute of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland

Naohisa Kanda

Affiliation Institute of Cetacean Research, Tokyo, Japan

Luis A. Pastene

Affiliation Institute of Cetacean Research, Tokyo, Japan

Kevin A. Glover

kevin.glover@imr.no

Affiliations Dept. of Population Genetics, Institute of Marine Research, Bergen, Norway, Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MQ HJS NØ TH KAG. Performed the experiments: BBS KAG. Analyzed the data: MQ HJS HKS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HJS NØ TH NK LAP KAG. Wrote the paper: MQ HJS NØ TH BBS HKS CP NK LAP KAG.