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Tracing the Drivers of Range-Wide Bowhead Whale Genomic Structure and Diversity.
Molecular ecology - 1 May 2026
Westbury Michael V, Freymueller Nicholas A, Cabrera Andrea A, Bachmann Lutz, Ferguson Steven H, Heide-Jørgensen Mads Peter, Kovacs Kit M, Lydersen Christian, Shpak Olga, Wiig Øystein, Fordham Damien A, Lorenzen Eline D
Abstract excerpt
In a rapidly warming Arctic, genetic variation might serve to buffer organisms against the effects of environmental change, such as sea ice loss and ocean warming. Yet, this concept remains largely unexplored because comprehensive genome-wide studies across the full ranges of Arctic marine taxa are rare. Bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) have a strong association with sea ice and polar water masses, a long...
Topics
- Animals
- Bowhead Whale
- Genetic Variation
- Genetics, Population
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Arctic Regions
- Ecosystem
- Genome, Mitochondrial
- Cell Nucleus
- Greenland