Steller’s sea cow genome suggests this species began going extinct before the arrival of Paleolithic humans

A newly assembled Steller’s sea cow genome suggests that this marine mammal had low levels of genetic diversity and began to go extinct along the North Pacific coastline much earlier than when the first Paleolithic humans arrived in the Bering sea region.

Bibliographic Details
Published in:Nature Communications
Main Authors: Fedor S. Sharko, Eugenia S. Boulygina, Svetlana V. Tsygankova, Natalia V. Slobodova, Dmitry A. Alekseev, Anna A. Krasivskaya, Sergey M. Rastorguev, Alexei N. Tikhonov, Artem V. Nedoluzhko
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021
Subjects:
Science
Q
Bering Sea
Pacific
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22567-5
https://doaj.org/article/dbce3743caaf42e9a061cf6a6b705c0a
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Summary:A newly assembled Steller’s sea cow genome suggests that this marine mammal had low levels of genetic diversity and began to go extinct along the North Pacific coastline much earlier than when the first Paleolithic humans arrived in the Bering sea region.

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