M. E. Goebel

Where are the beachmasters? Unexpectedly weak polygyny among southern elephant seals on a South Shetland Island

The paper investigates mating patterns in southern elephant seals using genetic analysis and finds unexpectedly weak polygyny in a satellite colony.

RAD sequencing and a hybrid Antarctic fur seal genome assembly reveal rapidly decaying linkage disequilibrium, global population structure and evidence for inbreeding