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Genetic Evidence of a Population Bottleneck and Inbreeding in the Endangered New Zealand Sea Lion, Phocarctos hookeri.
The Journal of heredity - 1 Sept 2016
Osborne Amy J, Negro Sandra S, Chilvers B Louise, Robertson Bruce C, Kennedy Martin A, Gemmell Neil J
Abstract excerpt
The New Zealand sea lion (NZSL) is of high conservation concern due to its limited distribution and its declining population size. Historically, it occupied most of coastal New Zealand, but is now restricted to a few coastal sites in southern mainland New Zealand and the sub-Antarctic Islands. NZSLs have experienced a recent reduction in population size due to sealing in the 1900s, which is expected to have...
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