Gene flow on ice: the role of sea ice and whaling in shaping Holarctic genetic diversity and population differentiation in bowhead whales ( Balaena mysticetus)

• Published in: Ecology and Evolution
• Main Authors: Elizabeth Alter, S., Rosenbaum, Howard C., Postma, Lianne D., Whitridge, Peter, Gaines, Cork, Weber, Diana, Egan, Mary G., Lindsay, Melissa, Amato, George, Dueck, Larry, Brownell, Robert L., Heide‐Jørgensen, Mads‐Peter, Laidre, Kristin L., Caccone, Gisella, Hancock, Brittany L.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2012
• Subjects: Arctic; Hudson Bay; Okhotsk; Baffin Bay; Pacific; Hudson; Foxe Basin; Prince Regent Inlet; Baffin; Balaena mysticetus; Beaufort Sea; Chukchi; Davis Strait; Sea ice; Subarctic; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.397; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Fece3.397; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ece3.397

Abstract Sea ice is believed to be a major factor shaping gene flow for polar marine organisms, but it remains unclear to what extent it represents a true barrier to dispersal for arctic cetaceans. Bowhead whales are highly adapted to polar sea ice and were targeted by commercial whalers throughout...