Origin and expansion of the world’s most widespread pinniped: Range‐wide population genomics of the harbour seal ( Phoca vitulina )

• Published in: Molecular Ecology
• Main Authors: Liu, Xiaodong, Rønhøj Schjøtt, Suzanne, Granquist, Sandra M., Rosing‐Asvid, Aqqalu, Dietz, Rune, Teilmann, Jonas, Galatius, Anders, Cammen, Kristina, O’Corry‐Crowe, Greg, Harding, Karin, Härkönen, Tero, Hall, Ailsa, Carroll, Emma L., Kobayashi, Yumi, Hammill, Mike, Stenson, Garry, Kirstine Frie, Anne, Lydersen, Christian, Kovacs, Kit M., Andersen, Liselotte W., Hoffman, Joseph I., Goodman, Simon J., Vieira, Filipe G., Heller, Rasmus, Moltke, Ida, Tange Olsen, Morten
• Other Authors: Academy of Finland, Stiftelsen för Miljöstrategisk Forskning, Innovationsfonden, Villum Fonden
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2022
• Subjects: Genetics; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Arctic; Pacific; Stone Range; harbour seal; North Atlantic; Phoca vitulina
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mec.16365; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/mec.16365; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1111/mec.16365

Abstract The harbour seal ( Phoca vitulina ) is the most widely distributed pinniped, occupying a wide variety of habitats and climatic zones across the Northern Hemisphere. Intriguingly, the harbour seal is also one of the most philopatric seals, raising questions as to how it colonized its current...