A global cline in a colour polymorphism suggests a limited contribution of gene flow towards the recovery of a heavily exploited marine mammal

• Published in: Royal Society Open Science
• Main Authors: Hoffman, J. I., Bauer, E., Paijmans, A. J., Humble, E., Beckmann, L. M., Kubetschek, C., Christaller, F., Kröcker, N., Fuchs, B., Moreras, A., Shihlomule, Y. D., Bester, M. N., Cleary, A. C., De Bruyn, P. J. N., Forcada, J., Goebel, M. E., Goldsworthy, S. D., Guinet, C., Hoelzel, A. R., Lydersen, C., Kovacs, K. M., Lowther, A.
• Other Authors: Open Access Publication Fund of Bielefeld University, Department of Science and Technology of South Africa National Research Foundation for Marion Island Research, Norwegian Antarctic Research Expeditions, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Royal Society 2018
• Subjects: Antarctic; Bouvetøya; Indian; South Shetland Islands; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctic Fur Seal; Arctocephalus gazella; Marion Island
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.181227; https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsos.181227; https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full-xml/10.1098/rsos.181227

Evaluating how populations are connected by migration is important for understanding species resilience because gene flow can facilitate recovery from demographic declines. We therefore investigated the extent to which migration may have contributed to the global recovery of the Antarctic fur seal (...