Evolutionary history of a Scottish harbour seal population
Efforts to conserve marine mammals are often constrained by uncertainty over their population history. Here, we examine the evolutionary history of a harbour seal (Phoca vitulina) population in the Moray Firth, northeast Scotland using genetic tools and microsatellite markers to explore population c...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:7357561 2023-05-15T16:33:33+02:00 Evolutionary history of a Scottish harbour seal population Nikolic, Natacha Thompson, Paul de Bruyn, Mark Macé, Matthias Chevalet, Claude 2020-07-10 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7357561/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32728487 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9167 en eng PeerJ Inc. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7357561/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32728487 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9167 ©2020 Nikolic et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited. CC-BY PeerJ Evolutionary Studies Text 2020 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9167 2020-08-02T00:19:32Z Efforts to conserve marine mammals are often constrained by uncertainty over their population history. Here, we examine the evolutionary history of a harbour seal (Phoca vitulina) population in the Moray Firth, northeast Scotland using genetic tools and microsatellite markers to explore population change. Previous fine-scale analysis of UK harbour seal populations revealed three clusters in the UK, with a northeastern cluster that included our Moray Firth study population. Our analysis revealed that the Moray Firth cluster is an independent genetic group, with similar levels of genetic diversity across each of the localities sampled. These samples were used to assess historic abundance and demographic events in the Moray Firth population. Estimates of current genetic diversity and effective population size were low, but the results indicated that this population has remained at broadly similar levels following the population bottleneck that occurred after post-glacial recolonization of the area. Text harbour seal Phoca vitulina PubMed Central (PMC) PeerJ 8 e9167 |
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Efforts to conserve marine mammals are often constrained by uncertainty over their population history. Here, we examine the evolutionary history of a harbour seal (Phoca vitulina) population in the Moray Firth, northeast Scotland using genetic tools and microsatellite markers to explore population change. Previous fine-scale analysis of UK harbour seal populations revealed three clusters in the UK, with a northeastern cluster that included our Moray Firth study population. Our analysis revealed that the Moray Firth cluster is an independent genetic group, with similar levels of genetic diversity across each of the localities sampled. These samples were used to assess historic abundance and demographic events in the Moray Firth population. Estimates of current genetic diversity and effective population size were low, but the results indicated that this population has remained at broadly similar levels following the population bottleneck that occurred after post-glacial recolonization of the area. |
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