Revised taxonomy of eastern North Pacific killer whales (Orcinus orca): Bigg’s and resident ecotypes deserve species status Author Morin, Phillip A. 0000-0002-3279-1519 Southwest Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA Phillip.Morin@noaa.gov Author McCarthy, Morgan L. 0000-0002-9695-6060 Southwest Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA & Section for Molecular Ecology and Evolution, Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen, 1350 Copenhagen, Denmark. Author Fung, Charissa W. 0009-0007-4956-675X University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V 6 T 1 Z 4, Canada Author Durban, John W. 0000-0002-0791-8370 Marine Mammal Institute, Oregon State University, Newport, OR 97365, USA Author Parsons, Kim M. 0000-0003-4580-3651 Northwest Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA, Seattle, WA 98112, USA Author Perrin, William F. Southwest Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA Author Taylor, Barbara L. 0000-0001-7620-0736 Southwest Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA Author Jefferson, Thomas A. 0000-0001-6817-2747 Southwest Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA Author Archer, Frederick I. 0000-0002-3179-4769 Southwest Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA text Royal Society Open Science 2024 231368 2024-03-27 11 3 1 23 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.231368 journal article 10.1098/rsos.231368 f64e42ba-1c83-4568-b2bf-6a5ea79f79ee 11029509
Table 1. Measures of differentiation, divergence and diagnosability based on nuclear microsatellite and SNP data. All frequency-based metrics (FST, F’ST, G’ST) were significantly different from zero at p <0.05.
divergence metricreference
a 95% confidence interval:0.00727–0.00772. b 95% confidence interval: 0.00388–0.00393. c Alaska transients (Bigg’s) versus Alaska residents. d Based on analysis of raw SNP data from Kardos et al. [113].
dA (CR)0.007 46a[114]
dA (mitogenome)0.003 91b[114]
FST (microsatellite)0.21–0.23[56,85]
F’ST (microsatellite)0.47[56]
G’ST (microsatellite)0.28[56]
FST (SNP)0.28[15]
F(RADseq, neutral)c ST0.27[58]
F(RADseq, selected)c ST0.67[58]
FST (genomes)0.32[9] (electronic supplementary material, table S2)
diagnosability (CR)100%[114]
diagnosability (mitogenome)100%[114]
fixed differences (mitogenome)57[7]
fixed differences (3281 nuclear SNPs)2–7[58]
fixed differences (6 435 100 nuclear SNPs)6361d[113]