Population genetics of Bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) in the Western Arctic

Arctic

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-12

  Givens, Geof H ^a   Huebinger, Ryan M ^b,e   Patton, John C ^b,e   Postma, Lianne D ^c   Lindsay, Meliss ^c   Suydam, Robert S ^d   George, John C ^d   Matson, Cole W ^f   Bickham, J W ^b,e  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FISHERIES AND OCEANS CANADA   (Canada)

^d DEPARTMENT OF WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT   (United States)

^e PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alaska; Beaufort; Bering; Bowhead whale; Chukchi; Conservation; Genetic analysis; Genetic bottleneck; Hardy Weinberg disequilibrium; Population differentiation; Population structure; Temporal substructure

Indexed keywords

GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GENETIC MARKER; NINETEENTH CENTURY; POPULATION BOTTLENECK; POPULATION STRUCTURE; WHALE; WHALING;

ALASKA; ARCTIC OCEAN; BEAUFORT SEA; BERING SEA; CANADA; CHUKCHI SEA; PACIFIC OCEAN; SEA OF OKHOTSK; UNITED STATES;

BALAENA MYSTICETUS; BALAENIDAE; CETACEA;

EID: 77950845310     PISSN: 00040843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (61)

1. Archer, F.I., Martien, K.K., Taylor, B.L., LeDuc, R.G., Ripley, B.J., Givens, G.H., and George, J.C. in press. A simulation-based approach to evaluating population structure in non-equilibrial populations. Journal of Cetacean Research and Management.
2. Bickham, J.W., Hunter, D.D., Matson, C.W., Huebinger, R.M., Patton, J.C., George, J.C., and suydam, R. 2004. Genetic variability of nuclear microsatellite loci in Bering-Chukchi- Beaufort seas bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus): A test of the genetic bottleneck hypothesis. Paper sC/56/BRG18 presented to the IWC Scientific Committee, June 2004. Available from The international Whaling Commission, The Red House, 135 station Road, impington, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB24 9NP, united kingdom.
3. Bockstoce, J.R., and Botkin, D.B. 1983. The historical status and reduction of the Western Arctic bowhead whale, Balaena mysticetus, population by the pelagic whaling industry, 1848-1914. Report of the International Whaling Commission, Special Issue 5:107-141.
4. Bockstoce, J.R., and Burns, J.J. 1993. Commercial whaling in the North Pacific sector. In: Burns, J.J., Montague, J.J., and Cowles, C.J., eds. the bowhead whale. society for Marine Mammalogy, special Publication No. 2. Lawrence, Kansas: Allen Press Inc. 563-576.
5. Bockstoce, J.R., Botkin, D.B., Philp, A., Collins, B.W., and George, J.C. 2005. the geographic distribution of bowhead whales in the Bering, Chukchi and Beaufort seas: Evidence from whaleship records, 1849-1914. Marine Fisheries Review 67:1-43.
6. Borge, T., Bachmann, L., Bjørnstad, G., and Wiig, 0. 2007. Genetic variation in Holocene bowhead whales from svalbard. Molecular Ecology 16:2223-2235.
7. Brandon, J.R., and Wade, P.R. 2006. Assessment of the Bering-Chukchi-Beaufort seas stock of bowhead whales using Bayesian model averaging. Journal of Cetacean Research and Management 8(3):225 -239.
8. Burns, J.J., Montague, J.J., and Cowles, C.J., eds. 1993. The bowhead whale. society for Marine Mammalogy, special Publication No. 2. Lawrence, Kansas: Allen Press Inc.
9. Chakraborty, R., de Andrade, M., Daiger, s.P., and Budowle, B. 1992. Apparent heterozygote deficiencies observed in DNA typing data and their implications in forensic applications. Annals of Human Genetics 56:45-57, doi:10.1111/j.1469-1809.1992.tb01128.x.
10. Cornuet, J.M., and Luikart, G. 1996. Description and power analysis of two tests for detecting recent population bottlenecks from allele frequency data. Genetics 144:2001 -2014.
11. Efron, B., and Tibshirani, R.J. 1993. An introduction to the bootstrap. Monographs on statistics and Applied Probability 57. New York: Chapman and Hall/CRC Press.
12. Evanno, G., Regnaut, S., and Goudet, J. 2005. Detecting the number of clusters of individuals using the software sTRuCTuRE: A simulation study. Molecular Ecology 14:2611-2620, doi:10.1111/j.1365-294X.2005.02553.x.
13. Falush, D., stephens, M., and Pritchard, J.K. 2003. Inference of population structure using multilocus genotype data: Linked loci and correlated allele frequencies. Genetics 164: 1567-1587.
14. Fisher, R.A. 1935. The logic of inductive inference. Journal of the Royal statistical society 98:39 -54.
15. George, J.C., Bada, J., Zeh, J., Scott, L., Brown, S.E., O'Hara, T., and suydam, R. 1999. Age and growth estimates of bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) via aspartic acid racemization. Canadian Journal of Zoology 77:571 -580.
16. George, J.C., Follman, E., Zeh, J., Sousa, M., Tarpley, R., and Suydam, R. 2004a. Inferences from bowhead whale corpora data, age estimates, length at sexual maturity and ovulation rates. Paper SC/56/BRG8 presented to the IWC Scientific Committee, June 2004. Available from The International Whaling Commission, The Red House, 135 Station Road, Impington, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB24 9NP, united Kingdom.
17. George, J.C., Zeh, J., Suydam, R., and Clark, C. 2004b. Abundance and population trend (1978-2001) of Western Arctic bowhead whales surveyed near Barrow, Alaska. Marine Mammal Science 20:755-773.
18. Givens, G.H., and Ozaksoy, I. 2007. Population structure and covariate analysis based on pairwise microsatellite allele matching frequencies. Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology 6: article 31.
19. Givens, G.H., Bickham, J.W., Matson, C.W., Ozaksoy, I., Suydam, R.S., and George, J.C. 2004. Examination of Bering-Chukchi- Beaufort seas bowhead whale stock structure hypotheses using microsatellite data. Paper SC/56/BRG17 presented to the IWC Scientific Committee, June 2004. Available from The International Whaling Commission, The Red House, 135 Station Road, Impington, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB24 9NP, united Kingdom.
20. Goudet, J. 2005. FSTAT: v. 2.9.3.2. http://www2.unil.ch/popgen/softwares/ fstat.htm.
21. Hartl, D.L., and Clark, A.G. 2007. Principles of population genetics. Sunderland, Massachusetts: Sinauer Associates, Inc.
22. Heide-Jørgensen, M.P., Laidre, K.L., Jensen, M.V., Dueck, L., and Postma, L.D. 2006. Dissolving stock discreteness with satellite tracking: Bowhead whales in Baffin Bay. Marine Mammal Science 22:34-45.
23. Heide-Jørgensen, M.P., Laidre, K., Borchers, D., Samarra, F., and Stern, H. 2007. Increasing abundance of bowhead whales in West Greenland. Biological Letters 3(5):577-580, doi:10.1098/rsbl.2007.0310.
24. Huebinger, R.M., Patton, J.C., George, J.C., Suydam, R., Louis, E.E., and Bickham, J.W. 2008. Characterization of twenty-five microsatellite loci in bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus). Molecular Ecology Resources 8:612-615.
25. Hunter, D.D. 2005. Did bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) from the Bering-Chukchi-Beaufort seas undergo a genetic bottleneck? A test using nuclear microsatellite loci. MS thesis, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas.
26. IWC (International Whaling Commission). 2003. Report of the Scientific Committee. Journal of Cetacean Research and Management 5, Suppl.
27. - 2008. Report of the Scientific Committee. Journal of Cetacean Research and Management 10, Suppl.
28. Jorde, P.E., Schweder, T., Bickham, J.W., Givens, G.H., Suydam, R., Hunter, D., and Stenseth, N.C. 2007. Detecting genetic structure in migrating bowhead whales off the coast of Barrow, Alaska. Molecular Ecology 16:1993-2004, doi:10.1111/j.1365- 294X.2007.03268.x.
29. Kaeuffer, R., Réale, D., Coltman, D.W., and Pontier, D. 2007. Detecting population structure using STRUCTURE software: Effect of background linkage disequilibrium. Heredity 9:374-380.
30. Koski, W.R., Davis, R.A., Miller, G.W., and Withrow, D.E. 1993. Reproduction. In: Burns, J.J., Montague, J.J., and Cowles, C.J., eds. The bowhead whale. Society for Marine Mammalogy, Special Publication No. 2. Lawrence, Kansas: Allen Press Inc. 239-274.
31. LeDuc, R.G., Dizon, A.E., Burdin, A.M., Blokhin, S.A., George, J.C., and Brownell, R.L., Jr. 2005. Genetic analyses (mtDNA and microsatellites) of Okhotsk and Bering/Chukchi/Beaufort seas populations of bowhead whales. Journal of Cetacean Research and Management 7:107 -111.
32. Moore, S.E., and Reeves, R.R. 1993. Distribution and movement. In: Burns, J.J., Montague, J.J., and Cowles, C.J., eds. The bowhead whale. Society for Marine Mammalogy, Special Publication No. 2. Lawrence, Kansas: Allen Press Inc. 313-386.
33. Morin, P.A., LeDuc, R.G., Archer, F.I., Martien, K.K., Taylor, B.L., Huebinger, R.M., and Bickham, J.W. 2007. Estimated genotype error rates from bowhead whale microsatellite data. Paper SC/59/BRG15 presented to the IWC Scientific Committee, May 2007. Available from The International Whaling Commission, The Red House, 135 Station Road, Impington, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB24 9NP, united Kingdom.
34. Morin, P.A., LeDuc, R.G., Archer, F.I., Martien, K.K., Huebinger, R., Bickham, J.W., and Taylor, B.L. 2009. Significant deviations from Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium caused by low levels of microsatellite genotyping errors. Molecular Ecology Resources 9:498-504, doi:10.1111/j.1755-0998.2008.02502.x.
35. Nerini, M., Braham, H., Marquette, W., and Rugh, D. 1984. Life history of the bowhead whale, Balaena mysticetus (Mammalia: Cetacea). Journal of Zoology (London) 204:443-468.
36. Noongwook, G., The Native Village of Savoonga, The Native Village of Gambell, Huntington, H.P., and George, J.C. 2007. Traditional knowledge of the bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) around Saint Lawrence Island, Alaska. Arctic 60:47-54.
37. O'Hara, T.M., George, J.C., Tarpley, R.J., Burek, K., and Suydam, R.S. 2002. Sexual maturation in male bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus). Journal of Cetacean Research and Management 4:143-148.
38. Palsboll, P.J., Berube, M., Larsen, A.H., and Jørgensen, H. 1997. Primers for the amplification of tri- and tetramer microsatellite loci in baleen whales. Molecular Ecology 6:893-895.
39. Palsboll, P. J., Berube, M., and Allendorf, F.W. 2006. Identification of management units using population genetic data. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 22:11-16.
40. Pastene, L.A., Goto, M., and Kanda, N. 2004. Genetic heterogeneity in the B-C-B stock of bowhead whales as revealed by mitochondrial DNA and microsatellite analyses. Paper SC/56/ BRG32 presented to the IWC Scientific Committee, June 2004. Available from The International Whaling Commission, The Red House, 135 Station Road, Impington, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB24 9NP, united Kingdom.
41. Piry, S., Luikart, G., and Cornuet, J.M. 1999. BOTTLENECK: A computer program for detecting recent reductions in the effective population size using allele frequency data. Journal of Heredity 90:502-503.
42. Pritchard, J.K., Stephens, M., and Donnelly, P. 2000. Inference of population structure using multilocus genotypes. Genetics 155:945-959.
43. Punt, A.E. 2006. Assessing the Bering-Chukchi-Beaufort seas stock of bowhead whales using abundance data together with data on length or age. Journal of Cetacean Research and Management 8:127-137.
44. Raymond, M., and Rousset, F. 1995. GENEPOP Version 1.2: Population genetics software for exact tests and ecumenicism. Journal of Heredity 86:248-249. Latest version 4.0 available from http://kimura.univ-montp2.fr/ ∼rousset/Genepop.htm.
45. Reese, s., Calvin, J.A., George, J.C., and Tarpley, R.J. 2001. Estimation of fetal growth and gestation in bowhead whales (with discussion). Journal of the American statistical Association 96:915-938.
46. Rooney, A.P., Honeycutt, R.L., Davis, s.K., and Derr, J.N. 1999a. Evaluating a putative bottleneck in a population of bowhead whales from patterns of microsatellite diversity and genetic disequilibrium. Journal of Molecular Evolution 49:682-690.
47. Rooney, A.P., Merritt, D.B., and Derr, J.N. 1999b. Microsatellite diversity in captive bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus). Journal of Heredity 90:228-231.
48. Rooney, A.P., Honeycutt, R.L., and Derr, J.N. 2001. Historical population size change of bowhead whales inferred from DNA sequence polymorphism data. Evolution 55:1678-1685.
49. Rosa, C., George, J.C., Zeh, J., O'Hara, T.M., Botta, O., and Bada, J. 2004. Update on age estimation of bowhead whales using aspartic acid racemization. Paper sC/56/BRG6 presented to the IWC Scientific Committee, June 2004. Available from The International Whaling Commission, The Red House, 135 station Road, Impington, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB24 9NP, United Kingdom.
50. Rousset, F., and Raymond, M. 1995. Testing heterozygote excess and deficiency. Genetics 140:1413-1419.
51. Rugh, D., DeMaster, D., Rooney, A., Breiwick, J., shelden, K., and Moore, s. 2003. A review of bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) stock identity. Journal of Cetacean Research and Management 5:267-279.
52. skaug, H.J., and Givens, G.H. 2007. Relatedness among individuals in BCB bowhead microsatellite samples. Paper SC/59/BRG20 presented to the IWC Scientific Committee, May 2007. Available from The International Whaling Commission, The Red House, 135 station Road, Impington, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB24 9NP, United Kingdom.
53. slatkin, M. 2008. Linkage disequilibrium-understanding the evolutionary past and mapping the medical future. Nature Reviews. Genetics 9:477-485.
54. Stoker, S.W., and Krupnik, I. 1993. subsistence whaling. In: Burns, J.J., Montague, J.J., and Cowles, C.J., eds. The bowhead whale. society for Marine Mammalogy, special Publication No. 2. Lawrence, Kansas: Allen Press Inc. 579-630.
55. Taylor, B., LeDuc, R., George, J.C., suydam, R., Moore, S., and Rugh, D. 2007. synthesis of lines of evidence for population structure for bowhead whales in the Bering-Chukchi-Beaufort region. Paper SC/59/BRG35 presented to the IWC Scientific Committee, May 2007. Available from The International Whaling Commission, The Red House, 135 station Road, Impington, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB24 9NP, United Kingdom.
56. Tenaillon, M.I., Austerlitz, F., and Tenaillon, O. 2008. Apparent mutational hotspots and long distance linkage disequilibrium resulting from a bottleneck. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 21:541-550, doi:10.1111/j.1420-9101. 2007.01490.x.
57. Tomilin, A.G. 1957. Mammals of the USSR and adjacent countries, Vol. 9: Cetacea. Moscow: Academy of science. Translated from Russian by Israel Program for Scientific Translations, Jerusalem, 1967. NTIs No. TT 65-500867. 717 p.
58. Valsecchi, E., and Amos, W. 1996. Microsatellite markers for the study of cetacean populations. Molecular Ecology 5:151-156.
59. Van Oosterhout, C., Hutchinson, W.F., Wills, D.P., and shipley, P. 2004. MICRO-CHECKER: software for identifying and correcting genotyping errors in microsatellite data. Molecular Ecology Notes 4:535-538.
60. Wang, T., Su, Y., and Chen, G. 2008. Population genetic variation and structure of the invasive weed Mikania micrantha in southern China: Consequences of rapid range expansion. Journal of Heredity 99:22-33.
61. Waples, R.S., and Gaggiotti, O. 2006. What is a population? An empirical evaluation of some genetic methods for identifying the number of gene pools and their degree of connectivity. Molecular Ecology 15:1419-1439.