October 14, 2009
By a GenomeWeb staff reporter
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Humpback whales in the Southern Hemisphere exhibit extensive population structure, according to a new genetic study.
An international research team sequenced mitochondrial DNA from about 1,500 humpback whales sampled at more than a dozen sites in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. The research, appearing [...]

New rules for safe shipping may save whales
Andrew Darby in Hobart
July 18, 2009
THE world’s only factory whaling ship may be driven from the Antarctic by tighter regulations.
The Nisshin Maru is vital to the operations of the Japanese whaling fleet, but it will run foul of new rules imposed by the United Nations International Maritime Organisation, [...]