Mitochondrial DNA control region amplicon sequencing of Caribbean short-finned pilot whales (SFPW; Globicephala macrorhynchus)
A 650 bp fragment of the mitochondrial DNA control region (mtDNA CR) was amplified using the primers t-Pro-whale M13Dlp1.5 (5-TGTAAAACGACAGCCAGTTCACCCAAAGCTGRARTTCTA-3) and Dlp-5 (5-CCATCGWGATGTCTTATTTAAGRGGAA-3) (Baker et al., 1998). We followed the PCR protocol presented in Caballero et al. (2007). From the current global haplotyepes, all sequences were manually aligned and edited using MacClade v.4.0 with a consensus sequence length of 492 bp to identify haplotypes