First records of grey whale, Eschrichtius robustus, from Scotland

Application of ancient DNA analysis and collagen fingerprinting offers new opportunities to understand the exploitation of cetaceans by human coastal communities by allowing identification of fragmentary and modified cetacean bone to species and or generic level. Analyses from Orkney and Shetland ha...

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Main Authors: Kitchener, A.C., Szabo, V.E., Buckley, Michael, van den Hurk, Y., Mainland, I., Carruthers, M., MacKay, C., Frasier, B.A.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2021
Subjects:
ResearchInstitutes_Networks_Beacons/manchester_institute_of_biotechnology
Manchester Institute of Biotechnology
ResearchInstitutes_Networks_Beacons/MERI
Manchester Environmental Research Institute
North Atlantic
Online Access:https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/publications/8219c019-bff4-4272-b371-68d24e678e81
https://www.mammal.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/MC2013_First-records-of-grey-whale.pdf
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Summary:Application of ancient DNA analysis and collagen fingerprinting offers new opportunities to understand the exploitation of cetaceans by human coastal communities by allowing identification of fragmentary and modified cetacean bone to species and or generic level. Analyses from Orkney and Shetland have identified presence of the grey whale at archeological sites in Scotland for the first time. This is the first confirmation that seas around Scotland were part of the grey whale range in the eastern North Atlantic.

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