Climate change selects for heterozygosity in a declining fur seal population

Jaume Forcada () and Joseph Ivan Hoffman
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Jaume Forcada: British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ET, UK
Joseph Ivan Hoffman: University of Bielefeld, Postfach 100131, 33501 Bielefeld, Germany

Nature, 2014, vol. 511, issue 7510, 462-465

Abstract: Three decades of data on Antarctic fur seals show that reduced prey availability due to climate change leads to selection for increased heterozygosity in breeding females.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1038/nature13542

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