Ancient DNA reveals that bowhead whale lineages survived Late Pleistocene climate change and habitat shifts

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Foote, Andrew D ^a   Kaschner, Kristin ^b   Schultze, Sebastian E ^a   Garilao, Cristina ^c   Ho, Simon Y W ^d   Post, Klaas ^e   Higham, Thomas F G ^f   Stokowska, Catherine ^a   Van Der Es, Henry ^e   Embling, Clare B ^g   Gregersen, Kristian ^a   Johansson, Friederike ^h   Willerslev, Eske ^a   Gilbert, M Thomas P ^a,i  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^e Natuurhistorisch Museum Rotterdam   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^h Göteborgs Naturhistoriska Museum   (Sweden)

ⁱ MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANCIENT DNA; DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DNA; EXTINCTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; HABITAT TYPE; HOLOCENE; PLEISTOCENE; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; WHALE;

ARTICLE; BOWHEAD WHALE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DNA DETERMINATION; FEMALE; HABITAT SELECTION; HOLOCENE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION SIZE; UPPER PLEISTOCENE;

ANIMALS; BOWHEAD WHALE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DNA; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

ARCTIC;

EID: 84877741664     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2714     Document Type: Article

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