Long-term isolation and introgression shape the genomic distinctiveness of Rice's Whale
Diana Aguilar‐Gómez, Jacqueline A. Robinson, Christopher C. Kyriazis, Mallory Kenfield, Sergio F. Nigenda‐Morales, Nicole L. Vollmer, Lynsey A. Wilcox, Bernard Y. Kim, Ryan D. Hernandez, Patricia E. Rosel, Phillip A. Morin, Kirk E. Lohmueller
The paper reconstructs the demographic history of Rice's whale using whole-genome sequences and assesses its genomic health, finding long-term isolation and a recent population collapse increase extinction risk.
bioRxiv · Jun 19, 2026 · PreprintGenomics