Too much of a good thing: sea ice extent may have forced emperor penguins into refugia during the last glacial maximum

The relationship between population structure and demographic history is critical to understanding microevolution and for predicting the resilience of species to environmental change. Using mitochondrial DNA from extant colonies and radiocarbon-dated subfossils, we present the first microevolutionar...

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Published in:Global Change Biology
Main Authors: Younger, JL, Clucas, GV, Kooyman, G, Wienecke, B, Rogers, AD, Trathan, PN, Hart, T, Miller, KJ
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2015
Subjects:
Biological Sciences
Evolutionary Biology
Biogeography and Phylogeography
Kya
Ross Sea
Weddell
Weddell Sea
Antarc*
Antarctica
Aptenodytes forsteri
Emperor penguins
Sea ice
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.12882
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25728986
http://ecite.utas.edu.au/105756

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