The crabeater seal reference genome reveals hallmarks of persistently large effective population size and sustained population expansion in the World's most abundant pinniped
Beril Yıldız, Thomas S. Gelatt, Luis A. Hückstädt, Daniel Pereira da Costa, Michael Scott Tift, Jay Rotella, Elizabeth P. Flesch, Kaitlin Macdonald, Nancy X Chen, Robert A. Garrott, Mike E Goebel, Jaume Forcada, Thorsten Wachtmeister, David L. J. Vendrami, Joseph Ivan Hoffman
The paper presents a high-quality crabeater seal reference genome and shows it has high genetic diversity, low inbreeding, and a history of population expansion.
G3 Genes Genomes Genetics · Oct 31, 2026Peer-reviewedGenomics