Colonization from divergent ancestors: glaciation signatures on contemporary patterns of genomic variation in Collared Pikas (Ochotona collaris)

• Published in: Molecular Ecology
• Main Authors: Lanier, Hayley C., Massatti, Rob, He, Qixin, Olson, Link E., Knowles, L. Lacey
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada 2015
• Subjects: phylogeography; mammal; structure; climate change; Alaska; Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Science; Canada; Kya; Arctic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/112236; https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.13270

Identifying the genetic structure of a species and the factors that drive it is an important first step in modern population management, in part because populations evolving from separate ancestral sources may possess potentially different characteristics. This is especially true for climate‐sensiti...