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Genetic Diversity and Population Parameters of Sea Otters, Enhydra lutris, before Fur Trade Extirpation from 1741–1911

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Larson, Shawn, Jameson, Ron, Etnier, Michael, Jones, Terry, and Hall, Roberta

Abstract:

All existing sea otter, Enhydra lutris, populations have suffered at least one historic population bottleneck stemming from the fur trade extirpations of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. We examined genetic variation, gene flow, and population structure at five microsatellite loci in samples from five pre-fur trade populations throughout the sea...

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of Sea Otters, Enhydra lutris, before Fur Trade Extirpation from 1741–1911 Shawn Larson1*, Ron