Habitat type promotes rapid and extremely localised genetic differentiation in dolphins

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Remarkably low genetic diversity and strong population structure in common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) from coastal waters of the Southwestern Atlantic Ocean (2014, background): “…elsewhere might have originated via independent founder events from offshore populations, followed by local adaptation and natal philopatry (Hoelzel et al. 1998a; Natoli et al. 2004; Sellas et al. 2005; Möller et al. 2007; Tezanos-Pinto et al. 2009), leading to a reduction in genetic diversity.”
Female bisexual kinship ties maintain social cohesion in a dolphin network (2010, methodology): “While intersexual bonds may significantly increase the risk of inbreeding in small populations, there is no evidence of inbreeding occurring in Port Stephens (Möller et al. 2007).”
Social cohesion in a hierarchically structured embayment population of Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins (2009, background): “Although on much larger geographical scales, intraspecific affinity to specific habitat characteristics has been proposed as a mechanism promoting isolation of many bottlenose dolphin populations (Hoelzel et al. 1998; Natoli et al. 2005; Sellas et al. 2005; Möller et al. 2007).”