The World's Most Isolated and Distinct Whale Population? Humpback Whales of the Arabian Sea

• Cristina Pomilla ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Cristina Pomilla, Ana R. Amaral

  Current address: Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom; and Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

  Affiliation Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Ana R. Amaral ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Cristina Pomilla, Ana R. Amaral

  Affiliations Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, United States of America, Centro de Biologia Ambiental, Faculdade de Ciências Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

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• Tim Collins ,

  * E-mail: tcollins@wcs.org (TC); hrosenbaum@wcs.org (HR)

  Affiliations Ocean Giants Program, Wildlife Conservation Society, Bronx, New York, United States of America, Environment Society of Oman, Ruwi, Sultanate of Oman

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• Gianna Minton,

  Affiliations Environment Society of Oman, Ruwi, Sultanate of Oman, World Wide Fund for Nature, Gabon, Libreville, Gabon

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• Ken Findlay,

  Affiliation Mammal Research Institute, Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

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• Matthew S. Leslie,

  Current address: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California, United States of America; and Marine Mammal and Turtle Division, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA, La Jolla, California, United States of America

  Affiliations Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, United States of America, Ocean Giants Program, Wildlife Conservation Society, Bronx, New York, United States of America

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• Louisa Ponnampalam,

  Affiliations Environment Society of Oman, Ruwi, Sultanate of Oman, Institute of Ocean and Earth Sciences, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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• Robert Baldwin,

  Affiliation Environment Society of Oman, Ruwi, Sultanate of Oman

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• Howard Rosenbaum

  * E-mail: tcollins@wcs.org (TC); hrosenbaum@wcs.org (HR)

  Affiliations Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, United States of America, Ocean Giants Program, Wildlife Conservation Society, Bronx, New York, United States of America

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