Funding for this research was provided by:
ACTIQUIM-II (CTM2008-03135-E/ANT)
ACTIQUIMWHALES (CTM2010-17415/ANT)
Systematics Research Fund 2013
Obra Social La Caixa research grant (CONV09002)
Article History
Received: 19 October 2019
Revised: 4 May 2020
Accepted: 6 May 2020
First Online: 23 July 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: All applicable international, national, and/or institutional guidelines for the care and use of animals were followed by the authors.
: All necessary permits for sampling and observational field studies have been obtained by the authors from the competent authorities and are mentioned in the acknowledgements.
: Genetic sequence data generated in this study were deposited in GenBank with Accession Numbers MN566614–MN566757. All other data generated or analyzed during this study are included in this published article and its supplementary information files.
: ST and MB conceived and designed research. ST and MB conducted experiments. AR and CA contributed with reagents and analytical tools. ST, MB and AR analyzed data and wrote the manuscript. All authors read and approved the manuscript.