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SUBMITTER: Wellman HP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7739945 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wellman Hannah P HP Austin Rita M RM Dagtas Nihan D ND Moss Madonna L ML Rick Torben C TC Hofman Courtney A CA
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20201202 1940
Genetic analyses are an important contribution to wildlife reintroductions, particularly in the modern context of extirpations and ecological destruction. To address the complex historical ecology of the sea otter (<i>Enhydra lutris</i>) and its failed 1970s reintroduction to coastal Oregon, we compared mitochondrial genomes of pre-extirpation Oregon sea otters to extant and historical populations across the range. We sequenced, to our knowledge, the first complete ancient mitogenomes from archa ...[more]