Phylogenomics of the genus Tursiops and closely related Delphininae reveals extensive reticulation among lineages and provides inference about eco-evolutionary drivers

Funding Information: The authors would like to acknowledge Karis Baker, Michelle Gaither for help with laboratory work, and Menno de Jong for help with handling large raw files between servers. We also acknowledge Dr. Rupert Ormond, Umer Waqas and Babar Hussain for support in obtaining samples from Pakistan. For the Steno bredanensis and Stenella attenuata samples, we would like to thank P. Morin and K. Robertson (Southwest Fisheries Science Center ? SWFSC) for approval and extractions, as well as L. Balance (SWFSC), E. Oleson (PIFSC), and C. Potter (Smithsonian NMNH) for use of these samples. This work was supported by a pump-priming grant awarded by the University of Lincoln School of Life Sciences. M. Pilot was supported by a grant from the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA; Polish Returns Fellowship PPN/PPO/2018/1/00037).Peer reviewedPublisher PD