Using 🧬 we found that the two-tusked narwhal from Hamburg, reported as a female, is a male, as all the other two-tusked narwhals leibniz-lib.de/en/news/2011... image courtesy of Mentz Centrum für Naturkunde - Universität Hamburg
Anomalous two-tusked narwhals show no difference in diet or foraging ecology relative to normal narwhals globe.ku.dk/newslist/202...
Do tusk anomalies impact the foraging ecology of narwhals ? To find out, we used stable isotope analyses of museum specimens 🐋🦷 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... photo: Natural History Museum Denmark
Postdoc position in eDNA/eRNA based in beautiful Faroe Islands, with some time in Greenland for fieldwork and research visit. “Tracking spatial and temporal distribution of marine mammals in the Atlantic Arctic with environmental DNA”
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New paper out in Heredity: 'Evidence of long-term purging of mutation burden in killer whale genomes'. Time calibration of purging was through inclusion of an ancient (7.5Kyr) genome which was close to directly ancestral to the present-day population with signature of purging.
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3-year #postdoc position at Centre de synthèse et d'analyse de la biodiversité (CESAB) in Montpellier to work on how taking intraspecific diversity and evolutionary processes into account in translocation-based programs. Please share widely #PopGen #NbS
Do tusk anomalies impact the foraging ecology of narwhals ? To find out, we combined stable isotope analyses and DNA sexing of museum specimens 🐋🦷🧬🦄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... photo: Maja Theodoraki #Narwhals #MarineScience #StableIsotopes #MuseumScience #Ecology #DNA
Dr Marie Louis in front of a slide depicting genetic population structure in Greenland narwhal
Narwhal narhwals because they are so awesome! Marie Louis @mariels.bsky.social shows recent but strong divergence in narwhal populations on different sides of Greenland maybe by learned migratory routes #ECSconference2025 🐋🦑🧪
Delighted to have contributed to the genomic insights into demographic and evolutionary histories chapter led by @andrewfoote.bsky.social with @mariels.bsky.social @emma-carroll.bsky.social Michael Fontaine and Yacine Benchehida
First publication from @cherinebaumgartner.bsky.social in
@heredityjournal.bsky.social. Until recently North Atlantic herring stocks were thought to be genetically indistinguishable. This study shows similar gene flow among the killer whales that follow the Icelandic and Norwegian herring stocks.
Lukas Keller, @fieldgenomics.bsky.social and I asked 'What can genome sequence data reveal about population viability?'
Here's what we found: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... 🧪 #consgen
Excited to share our new paper on mammoths: doi.org/10.1016/j.qe...! I was only involved near the end of this ~9 year project (science takes time sometimes 😅) with sampling being done in 2015 by Eline and Ashot, and Alba having done most of the heavy lifting, but happy to have contributed 😄 Thread 👇
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Post reproductive mother and Son copyright David Ellifrit Center for Whale Research
Exciting new NERC funded PhD opportunity available with us on #killerwhale #orca #behaviour and #conservation, co-supervised by Stephanie King, Sam Ellis and Dan Franks in partnership with The Center for Whale Research USA
exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... - deadline 13th January 2025 #killerwhale
