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Genetic variation in Holocene bowhead whales from Svalbard.
Molecular ecology - 1 Jun 2007
Borge T, Bachmann L, Bjørnstad G, Wiig O
Abstract excerpt
Bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) are distributed in the Arctic in five putative stocks. All stocks have been heavily depleted due to centuries of exploitation. In the present study, nucleotide sequence variation of the mitochondrial control region was determined from bone remains of 99 bowhead whales. The bones, 14C dated from recent to more than 50,000 bp, were collected on Svalbard (Spitsbergen) and are...
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