Climate impacts on transocean dispersal and habitat in gray whales from the Pleistocene to 2100

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1510-1522

  Elizabeth Alter, S ^a,b,c   Meyer, Matthias ^d   Post, Klaas ^e   Czechowski, Paul ^c,f   Gravlund, Peter ^g   Gaines, Cork ^c   Rosenbaum, Howard C ^c,h   Kaschner, Kristin ⁱ   Turvey, Samuel T ^j   Van Der Plicht, Johannes ^k,l   Shapiro, Beth ^m   Hofreiter, Michael ^d,n,o  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^e Natuurhistorisch Museum Rotterdam   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^g National Aquarium Denmark   (Denmark)

^h WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^j INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^k UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^l LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^m UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^o UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

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Author keywords

ancient DNA; climate change; last glacial maximum; marine mammal

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; ESCHRICHTIIDAE; MAMMALIA;

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARCTIC; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CETACEA; CLIMATE CHANGE; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; FOSSIL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ANIMALS; ARCTIC REGIONS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CLIMATE CHANGE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ECOSYSTEM; FOSSILS; GENETIC VARIATION; HAPLOTYPES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WHALES;

EID: 84925653505     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mec.13121     Document Type: Article

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