Article
Elephant seal genetic variation and the use of simulation models to investigate historical population bottlenecks.
The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2000
Hoelzel A R, Halley J, O'Brien S J, Campagna C, Arnbom T, Le Boeuf B, Ralls K, Dover G A
Abstract excerpt
Because the northern elephant seal (Mirounga angustirostrus) was heavily exploited during the 19th century, it experienced an extreme population bottleneck. Since then, under legislative protection in the United States and Mexico, northern elephant seals have recovered dramatically in number, although their genomic diversity was greatly reduced, apparently as a consequence of the bottleneck. In this study we...
Topics
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Computer Simulation
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- Female
- Gene Frequency
- Genetic Variation
- Isoenzymes
- Male
- Models, Genetic
- Molecular Sequence Data