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, Jakobus, Bauer, E., Paijmans, J., Humble, E., Beckmann, L., Kubetschek, C., Christaller, F., Kröcker, N., Fuchs, B., Moreras, A., Shihlomule, Y., Bester, N., Cleary, A., de Bruyn, P. J. N., Forcada, J., Goebel, M. E., Goldsworthy, S. D., Guinet, Christophe, Hoelzel, A. R., Lydersen, C., Kovacs, K. M., Lowther, A.
• Other Authors: Department of Animal Behaviour, Universität Bielefeld, Department of Zoology and Entomology Pretoria, University of Pretoria South Africa, Norwegian Polar Institute, British Antarctic Survey NERC UK, Antarctic Ecosystem Research Division, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)-National Marine Fisheries Service, South Australian Research and Development Institute Australia, Centre d'Études Biologiques de Chizé - UMR 7372 (CEBC), Université de La Rochelle (ULR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), Durham University
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2018
• Subjects: pinniped; fur seal; melanocortin 1 receptor gene; population structure; colour polymorphism; [SDE]Environmental Sciences; Antarctic; Bouvetøya; Indian; South Shetland Islands; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctic Fur Seal; Arctocephalus gazella; Marion Island
• Online Access: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02263605; https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.181227

International audience 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 t...