A European Melting Pot of Harbour Porpoise in the French Atlantic Coasts Inferred from Mitochondrial and Nuclear Data

Eric Alfonsi; Sami Hassani; François-Gilles Carpentier; Jean-Yves Le Clec’h; Willy Dabin; Olivier Van Canneyt; Michael C. Fontaine; Jean-Luc Jung

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0044425

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A European Melting Pot of Harbour Porpoise in the French Atlantic Coasts Inferred from Mitochondrial and Nuclear Data

Eric Alfonsi,

Affiliations Laboratoire BioGeMME (Biologie et Génétique des Mammifères Marins dans leur Environnement), Université Européenne de Bretagne & Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France, Laboratoire d’Etude des Mammifères Marins, Océanopolis, Brest, France, LEMAR, Université Européenne de Bretagne & Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France
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Sami Hassani,

Affiliation Laboratoire d’Etude des Mammifères Marins, Océanopolis, Brest, France
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François-Gilles Carpentier,

Affiliation Laboratoire BioGeMME (Biologie et Génétique des Mammifères Marins dans leur Environnement), Université Européenne de Bretagne & Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France
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Jean-Yves Le Clec’h,

Affiliation Laboratoire d’Etude des Mammifères Marins, Océanopolis, Brest, France
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Willy Dabin,

Affiliation Observatoire PELAGIS, UMS 3462, CNRS-Université de La Rochelle, La Rochelle, France
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Olivier Van Canneyt,

Affiliation Observatoire PELAGIS, UMS 3462, CNRS-Université de La Rochelle, La Rochelle, France
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Michael C. Fontaine ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Michael C. Fontaine, Jean-Luc Jung

Affiliations Laboratoire d’Ecologie, Systématique et Evolution, Université Paris-Sud – CNRS, Orsay, France, Ecoanthropologie et d’Ethnobiologie, UMR 5145, CNRS-MNHN-Université Paris 7 Musée de l’Homme, Paris, France
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Jean-Luc Jung

Contributed equally to this work with: Michael C. Fontaine, Jean-Luc Jung

* E-mail: jung@univ-brest.fr

Affiliation Laboratoire BioGeMME (Biologie et Génétique des Mammifères Marins dans leur Environnement), Université Européenne de Bretagne & Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France
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A European Melting Pot of Harbour Porpoise in the French Atlantic Coasts Inferred from Mitochondrial and Nuclear Data

Eric Alfonsi,
Sami Hassani,
François-Gilles Carpentier,
Jean-Yves Le Clec’h,
Willy Dabin,
Olivier Van Canneyt,
Michael C. Fontaine,
Jean-Luc Jung

Published: September 12, 2012
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0044425

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