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

BMC Genomic Data

Table 4 Identification of the hybrid whale and her fetus captured in the Northeast Atlantic in 2010

Individual	Loci	Probability of false exclusion from baseline sample						Direct assignment
		Atl	Pac	Ant	Atl × Ant	Pac × Ant	Atl × Pac
Mother	11	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	0.48	0.088	<0.001	Atl X Ant >99%
	8	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	0.47	0.13	<0.001	Atl X Ant >99%
Fetus	11	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	0.93	0.003	<0.001	Atl X Ant = 100%
	8	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	0.83	<0.001	<0.001	Atl X Ant >99%

Exclusion (probability) and direct assignment (closest match) presented as implemented in Geneclass v. 2.0.
Atl = B. a. acutorostrata, Pac = B. a. scammoni, Ant = B. bonaerensis, Atl x Ant and Pac x Ant = simulated F1 hybrids.

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