Hybrids between common and Antarctic minke whales are fertile and can back-cross

BMC Genomic Data

Table 2 Genetic variation within (Allelic variation) and among (F _ST values) the species and sub-species of minke whales based upon the analysis of 11 microsatellite loci

Species	N	Locus											Loci pooled
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	A_T
Allelic variation
Atl	91	2	2*	3	12	7	12	9	9	11	12	8	87
Pac	95	5	3	5	19	11*	15	13	9	12	8	13*	113
Ant	91	4	16	17	11	20**	37**	16	18**	39	47	16	241
Dwarf	9	3	1	3	8	3	8	3	4	9	7*	5	54
Total	286	9	16	20	28	22	39	19	18	47	52	16	286
F_ST values
Atl x Pac		0.038	0.029	0.404	0.099	0.325	0.091	0.045	0.057	0.009	0.086	0.105	0.128
Atl x Ant		0.640	0.248	0.600	0.171	0.152	0.073	0.027	0.068	0.087	0.073	0.130	0.211
Pac x Ant		0.608	0.176	0.430	0.151	0.137	0.050	0.023	0.046	0.062	0.129	0.019	0.171
Dwarf x Pac		−0.016	0.184	0.377	0.045	0.178	0.036	0.313	0.109	0.023	0.078	0.076	0.144
Dwarf x Ant		0.615	0.293	0.502	0.130	0.250	0.031	0.308	0.095	0.042	0.062	0.087	0.225
Dwarf x Atl		0.003	0.097	0.616	0.106	0.451	0.075	0.360	0.043	0.029	0.069	0.209	0.216
Global F_ST		0.529	0.184	0.481	0.137	0.227	0.070	0.067	0.060	0.052	0.094	0.089	0.0175
Global (P value)		<0.0001	<0.0001	<0.0001	<0.0001	<0.0001	<0.0001	<0.0001	<0.0001	<0.0001	<0.0001	<0.0001	<0.0001

Locus 1 = DIrFCB14, 2 = EV104Mn, 3 = EV94Mn, 4 = EV001Pm, 5 = EV037Mn, 6 = GT509, 7 = GT211, 8 = GT575, 9 = GATA028, 10 = GATA417, 11 = GT023. * = significant from HWE at 0.05, ** = significant deviation from HWE at 0.001. Atl = B. a. acutorostrata, Pac = B. a. scammoni, Ant = B. bonaerensis, Dwarf = B. bonaerensis unnamed sub species. A_T = total number of alleles. Note, Dwarf sample is based upon 9 individuals only, and therefore to be treated with caution.

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