Evolutionary history of a Scottish harbour seal population
Efforts to conserve marine mammals are often constrained by uncertainty over their population history. Here, we examine the evolutionary history of a harbour seal ( Phoca vitulina ) population in the Moray Firth, northeast Scotland using genetic tools and microsatellite markers to explore population...
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crpeerj:10.7717/peerj.9167 2024-06-02T08:07:47+00:00 Evolutionary history of a Scottish harbour seal population Nikolic, Natacha Thompson, Paul de Bruyn, Mark Macé, Matthias Chevalet, Claude INRAE Genotoul platform (FRANCE), University of Aberdeen 2020 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9167 https://peerj.com/articles/9167.pdf https://peerj.com/articles/9167.xml https://peerj.com/articles/9167.html en eng PeerJ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ PeerJ volume 8, page e9167 ISSN 2167-8359 journal-article 2020 crpeerj https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9167 2024-05-07T14:13:53Z Efforts to conserve marine mammals are often constrained by uncertainty over their population history. Here, we examine the evolutionary history of a harbour seal ( Phoca vitulina ) population in the Moray Firth, northeast Scotland using genetic tools and microsatellite markers to explore population change. Previous fine-scale analysis of UK harbour seal populations revealed three clusters in the UK, with a northeastern cluster that included our Moray Firth study population. Our analysis revealed that the Moray Firth cluster is an independent genetic group, with similar levels of genetic diversity across each of the localities sampled. These samples were used to assess historic abundance and demographic events in the Moray Firth population. Estimates of current genetic diversity and effective population size were low, but the results indicated that this population has remained at broadly similar levels following the population bottleneck that occurred after post-glacial recolonization of the area. Article in Journal/Newspaper harbour seal Phoca vitulina PeerJ Publishing PeerJ 8 e9167 |
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Efforts to conserve marine mammals are often constrained by uncertainty over their population history. Here, we examine the evolutionary history of a harbour seal ( Phoca vitulina ) population in the Moray Firth, northeast Scotland using genetic tools and microsatellite markers to explore population change. Previous fine-scale analysis of UK harbour seal populations revealed three clusters in the UK, with a northeastern cluster that included our Moray Firth study population. Our analysis revealed that the Moray Firth cluster is an independent genetic group, with similar levels of genetic diversity across each of the localities sampled. These samples were used to assess historic abundance and demographic events in the Moray Firth population. Estimates of current genetic diversity and effective population size were low, but the results indicated that this population has remained at broadly similar levels following the population bottleneck that occurred after post-glacial recolonization of the area. |
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Evolutionary history of a Scottish harbour seal population |
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