Alba Rey‐Iglesia

Habitat discontinuity and fidelity to migratory routes shape narwhal genetic structure and diversity

This study uses genomic data from narwhals to show that habitat discontinuities and migration fidelity shape population structure, with low genetic diversity and inbreeding in small populations.

Four centuries of commercial whaling eroded 11,000 years of population stability in bowhead whales

This study uses fossil data and modeling to show that commercial whaling caused genetic diversity loss in bowhead whales, threatening their resilience to future climate change.

Historic Overexploitation, Genetic Erosion and Local extinction: Palaeogenomic Insights into the Decline of Eubalaena glacialis in the Northeast Atlantic

This study uses ancient DNA to show that the Northeast Atlantic right whale population was historically panmictic but declined sharply in genetic diversity due to whaling, leading to its functional extinction.

Impact of tusk anomalies on the long-term foraging ecology of narwhals

This study examines if tusk anomalies in narwhals affect foraging ecology using genetic sexing and stable isotope analysis, finding no systematic impact but noting differences in isotopic values for specimens with unusual dentition.

Ancient biomolecular analysis of 39 mammoth individuals from Kostenki 11-Ia elucidates Upper Palaeolithic human resource use

The paper analyzes biomolecular data from 39 mammoth individuals to understand Upper Palaeolithic human resource use, finding no sex-based foraging differences in Late Pleistocene megafauna.

How low can you go: sex identification from low-quantity sequencing data despite lacking assembled sex chromosomes

SeXY is a sex identification pipeline that works with very low-coverage sequencing data without needing a conspecific sex-chromosome assembly, achieving 100% accuracy with as few as 1,000 mapped reads.

MobiSeq: De Novo SNP discovery in model and non-model species through sequencing the flanking region of transposable elements

MobiSeq is a reduced representation library protocol that discovers SNPs in model and non-model species by sequencing flanking regions of transposable elements.