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A chromosome-length assembly of the Hawaiian Monk seal ( <i>Neomonarchus schauinslandi</i> ) confirms genomic stability in the Pinnipeds and a prolonged history of “genetic purging”
2022-03-31
Abstract excerpt
The Hawaiian monk seal (HMS) is the single extant species of tropical earless seals of the genus Neomonachus . The species survived a severe bottleneck in the late 19 th century and experienced subsequent population declines until becoming the subject of a NOAA-led species recovery effort beginning in 1976 when the population was fewer than 1000 animals. Like other recovering species, the Hawaiian monk seal has...
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- Literature Corpus work
- ed91623b-a4c6-57a1-a74d-b18f17b1889b
- DOI
- 10.1101/2022.03.31.486393
