The inference of gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus) historical population attributes from whole-genome sequences

• Published in: BMC evolutionary biology Vol. 18; no. 1; pp. 87 - 12
• Main Authors: Brüniche-Olsen, Anna, Westerman, Rick, Kazmierczyk, Zuzanna, Vertyankin, Vladimir V., Godard-Codding, Celine, Bickham, John W., DeWoody, J. Andrew
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BioMed Central Ltd 07.06.2018; BioMed Central; BMC
• Subjects: Admixture; Animals; Aquatic mammals; Atlantic Ocean; Base Sequence; Biodiversity; Biodiversity conservation; Bottlenecks; Cetacea; Cetacean; Climate change; Cluster Analysis; Demographic history; Demographics; Demography; Deoxyribonucleic acid; DNA; Ecological genetics; Ecosystem; Ecosystems; Endangered species; Environment models; Environmental changes; Eschrichtiidae; Eschrichtius robustus; Evolution; Gene flow; Gene sequencing; Genetic aspects; Genetic diversity; Genetic research; Genetic Variation; Genome; Genomes; Geography; Gray whale; Habitats; Harbors; History; Homozygote; Inbreeding; Marine mammals; Megafauna; Migration; Natural history; Niches; Pacific Ocean; Population; Population decline; Population Density; Protection and preservation; Relatedness; Runs-of-homozygosity; Statistics as Topic; Whales; Whales & whaling; Whales - genetics; Whales - physiology; Whaling; Runs-of-homozygosity; Demographic history; Cetacean; Admixture; Relatedness

Commercial whaling caused extensive demographic declines in many great whale species, including gray whales that were extirpated from the Atlantic Ocean and dramatically reduced in the Pacific Ocean. The Eastern Pacific gray whale has recovered since the 1982 ban on commercial whaling, but the Weste...