An evolutionarily distinct ringed seal in the Ilulissat Icefjord

• Published in: Molecular Ecology
• Main Authors: Rosing-Asvid, Aqqalu, Löytynoja, Ari, Momigliano, Paolo, Hansen, Rikke Guldborg, Scharff-Olsen, Camilla Hjorth, Valtonen, Mia, Kammonen, Juhana, Dietz, Rune, Riget, Frank Farso, Ferguson, Steve H., Lydersen, Christian, Kovacs, Kit M., Holland, David M., Jernvall, Jukka, Auvinen, Petri, Olsen, Morten Tange
• Other Authors: Bioinformatics, Ari Pekka Löytynoja / Principal Investigator, Institute of Biotechnology, Centre for Information Technology, Department of Geosciences and Geography, Jukka Jernvall / Principal Investigator, DNA Sequencing and Genomics
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2023
• Subjects: Arctic; Diversity; Indigenous knowledge; Local adaptation; Marine mammal; 1182 Biochemistry; cell and molecular biology; Canada; Greenland; Ilulissat; Kya; glacier; glacier*; inuit; Kangia; Pusa hispida; ringed seal
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10138/568001

The Earth's polar regions are low rates of inter- and intraspecific diversification. An extreme mammalian example is the Arctic ringed seal (Pusa hispida hispida), which is assumed to be panmictic across its circumpolar Arctic range. Yet, local Inuit communities in Greenland and Canada recogniz...