Dear MARMAM colleagues, On behalf of my coauthors I am pleased to share our recent publication on the phylogeography of short-finned pilot whales in the Pacific Ocean, published in the October 2016 edition of Marine Mammal Science: Van Cise, AM, PA Morin, RW Baird, AR Lang, KM Robertson, SJ Chivers, RL Brownell, KK Martien. 2016.* Redrawing the map: mtDNA provides new insight into the distribution and diversity of short-finned pilot whales in the Pacific Ocean.* Marine Mammal Science, 32(October), pp.1177–1199. Abstract: Correlations between morphological and genetic data provide evidence to delineate species or evolutionarily significant units, which then become the units to conserve in management plans. Here, we examine the distribution and genetic differentiation of two morphotypes of short-finned pilot whale (*Globicephala macrorhynchus*) in the Pacific Ocean. Mitochondrial control region sequences from 333 samples were combined with 152 previously published sequences to describe genetic variability globally and population structure in the Pacific. Although genetic variability is low, we found strong differentiation at both broad and local levels across the Pacific. Based on genetics, two types are distributed throughout the Pacific, one predominantly in the eastern Pacific and the other in the western and central Pacific. In the eastern Pacific Ocean, no correlation was found between distribution and sea surface temperature. The two types have broad latitudinal ranges, suggesting their distributions are likely driven by more complex factors, such as prey distribution, rather than sea surface temperature. Full text and pdf can be downloaded here: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mms.12315/abstract Or to request a pdf directly, email me at avancise@gmail.com Best, Amy Van Cise <*)))>< <*)))>< <*)))>< <*)))>< <*)))>< <*)))>< <*)))>< <*)))>< Amy Van Cise PhD Candidate NSF Graduate Research Fellow https://amyvancise.wordpress.com Scripps Institution of Oceanography Ritter Hall 117 781-686-6753 avancise@ucsd.edu NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center 8901 La Jolla Shores Drive 858-546-5648 avancise@gmail.com