Adaptation to the High-Arctic island environment despite long-term reduced genetic variation in Svalbard reindeer

• Published in: iScience
• Main Authors: Dussex, Nicolas, Tørresen, Ole Kristian, van der Valk, Tom, Le Moullec, Mathilde, Veiberg, Vebjørn, Tooming-Klunderud, Ave, Skage, Morten, Garmann-Aarhus, Benedicte, Wood, Jonathan, Rasmussen, Jacob Agerbo, Pedersen, Åshild Ønvik, Martin, Sarah Louise, Røed, Knut, Jakobsen, Kjetill Sigurd, Dalén, Love, Hansen, Brage Bremset, Martin, Michael David
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B. V. 2023
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Island; Svalbard; Svalbard Archipelago; Rangifer tarandus; Rangifer tarandus platyrhynchus; svalbard reindeer
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3112479; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2023.107811

Typically much smaller in number than their mainland counterparts, island populations are ideal systems to investigate genetic threats to small populations. The Svalbard reindeer (Rangifer tarandus platyrhynchus) is an endemic subspecies that colonized the Svalbard archipelago ca. 6,000–8,000 years...