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The inference of gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus) historical population attributes from whole-genome sequences.
BMC evolutionary biology - 7 Jun 2018
Brüniche-Olsen Anna, Westerman Rick, Kazmierczyk Zuzanna, Vertyankin Vladimir V, Godard-Codding Celine, Bickham John W, DeWoody J Andrew
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BACKGROUND: 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 Western Pacific gray whale-once considered possibly extinct-consists of only about 200 individuals and is...
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