Chinstrap penguin population genetic structure: one or more populations along the Southern Ocean?

• Published in: BMC Evolutionary Biology
• Main Authors: Isidora Mura-Jornet, Carolina Pimentel, Gisele P. M. Dantas, Maria Virginia Petry, Daniel González-Acuña, Andrés Barbosa, Andrew D. Lowther, Kit M. Kovacs, Elie Poulin, Juliana A. Vianna
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: BMC 2018
• Subjects: Seabirds; Pygoscelis antarcticus; Dispersal; Gene flow; Microsatellites; D-loop; Evolution; QH359-425; Antarctic; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; South Shetland Islands; Bouvetøya; Georges Point; Antarc*; antarcticus; Chinstrap penguin
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-018-1207-0; https://doaj.org/article/d386e922efdd4387b9b0b45e74f70187

Abstract Background Historical factors, demography, reproduction and dispersal are crucial in determining the genetic structure of seabirds. In the Antarctic marine environment, penguins are a major component of the avian biomass, dominant predators and important bioindicators of ecological change....