'Eve' and descendants shape global sperm whale population structure

Tuesday, May 3, 2016 - 16:40 in Biology & Nature

Although sperm whales have not been driven to the brink of extinction as have some other whales, a new study has found a remarkable lack of diversity in the maternally inherited mitochondrial DNA within the species.

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