Nature Communications (May 2016)
Genome-culture coevolution promotes rapid divergence of killer whale ecotypes
- Andrew D. Foote,
- Nagarjun Vijay,
- María C. Ávila-Arcos,
- Robin W. Baird,
- John W. Durban,
- Matteo Fumagalli,
- Richard A. Gibbs,
- M. Bradley Hanson,
- Thorfinn S. Korneliussen,
- Michael D. Martin,
- Kelly M. Robertson,
- Vitor C. Sousa,
- Filipe G. Vieira,
- Tomáš Vinař,
- Paul Wade,
- Kim C. Worley,
- Laurent Excoffier,
- Phillip A. Morin,
- M. Thomas P. Gilbert,
- Jochen B.W. Wolf
Affiliations
- Andrew D. Foote
- Department of Evolutionary Biology, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University
- Nagarjun Vijay
- Department of Evolutionary Biology, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University
- María C. Ávila-Arcos
- Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen
- Robin W. Baird
- Cascadia Research
- John W. Durban
- Marine Mammal and Turtle Division, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration
- Matteo Fumagalli
- Department of Genetics, Evolution, and Environment, UCL Genetics Institute, University College London
- Richard A. Gibbs
- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza
- M. Bradley Hanson
- Northwest Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- Thorfinn S. Korneliussen
- Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen
- Michael D. Martin
- Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen
- Kelly M. Robertson
- Marine Mammal and Turtle Division, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration
- Vitor C. Sousa
- Computational and Molecular Population Genetics Laboratory, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern
- Filipe G. Vieira
- Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen
- Tomáš Vinař
- Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University, Mlynska Dolina
- Paul Wade
- National Marine Mammal Laboratory, Alaska Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- Kim C. Worley
- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza
- Laurent Excoffier
- Computational and Molecular Population Genetics Laboratory, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern
- Phillip A. Morin
- Marine Mammal and Turtle Division, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration
- M. Thomas P. Gilbert
- Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen
- Jochen B.W. Wolf
- Department of Evolutionary Biology, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11693
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 7,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 12
Abstract
Killer whales have evolved into specialized ecotypes based on hunting strategies and ecological niches. Here, Andrew Foote and colleagues sequenced the whole genome of individual killer whales representing 5 different ecotypes from North Pacific and Antarctic, and show expansion of small founder groups to adapt to specific ecological niches.
