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- Title
Steller's sea cow uncertain history illustrates importance of ecological context when interpreting demographic histories from genomes.
- Authors
Campos, Alberto A.; Bullen, Cameron D.; Gregr, Edward J.; McKechnie, Iain; Chan, Kai M. A.
- Abstract
Although we acknowledge considerable differences in life history traits between these species, sea otters are the only other marine mammal restricted to nearshore coastal waters of the North Pacific, sharing a remarkably overlapping distribution with sea cows[19]. Steller's sea cow genome suggests this species began going extinct before the arrival of Paleolithic humans. To evaluate the ecological influence the Steller's sea cow may have exerted over kelp forests around the North Pacific Rim[11] we have been preparing updated range maps considering the species glacial and interglacial ranges.
- Subjects
COWS; GENOMES; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; BIOLOGICAL extinction; LAST Glacial Maximum; LIFE history theory
- Publication
Nature Communications, 2022, Vol 13, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2041-1723
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/s41467-022-31381-6