Gene flow on ice: The role of sea ice and whaling in shaping holarctic genetic diversity and population differentiation in bowhead whales (balaena mysticetus)

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 2, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2895-2911

  Alter, S Elizabeth ^a,b,c   Rosenbaum, Howard C ^c,d   Postma, Lianne D ^e   Whitridge, Peter ^f   Gaines, Cork ^c   Weber, Diana ^c   Egan, Mary G ^c   Lindsay, Melissa ^e   Amato, George ^c   Dueck, Larry ^e   Brownell, Robert L ^g   Heide Jørgensen, Mads Peter ^h   Laidre, Kristin L ^h,i   Caccone, Gisella ^j   Hancock, Brittany L ^g  

^a York College City University of New York   (Jamaica)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^d WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

^e FISHERIES AND OCEANS CANADA   (Canada)

^f MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^g SOUTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^h GREENLAND INSTITUTE OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Greenland)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^j YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Author keywords

Ancient DNA; Arctic; Cetacean; Marine mammal; Mitochondrial DNA; Whaling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872833518     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.397     Document Type: Article

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