Did bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) from the Bering-Chukchi-Beaufort Seas undergo a genetic bottleneck? A test using nuclear microsatellite loci

• Main Author: Hunter, Devra Denise
• Other Authors: Bickham, John W., Honeycutt, Rodney L., Wharton, Robert A.
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Texas A&M University 2005
• Subjects: bowhead whale; Balaena mysticetus; genetic bottleneck; microsatellite loci; heterozygosity excess; allele frequency; Lawrence Island; Chukchi; St Lawrence Island; Alaska
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/2648

This study reexamines the nuclear microsatellite analysis by Rooney et al. (1999a) of Bering-Chukchi-Beaufort Seas bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) to determine if this population underwent a genetic bottleneck as a result of 19th and early 20th Century commercial whaling. This investigation used...