Molecular Ecology and Global Climate Change in the Lorenzen Group

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Skovrind M, Louis M, Ferguson S, Glazov DM, Litovka DI, Loseto L, Meschersky IG , Miller M, Postma L, Rozhnov VV, Scott M, Westbury MV, Szpak P, Friesen TM, Lorenzen ED (2024) Elucidating 700 years of sustainable Inuvialuit beluga whale hunting in the Mackenzie River Delta, Northwest Territories, Canada. PNAS, 121 (34) e2405993121 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2405993121

Fordham DA, Brown SC, Canteri E, Austin JJ, Lomolino M, Haythorne S, Armstrong E, Bocherens H, Manica A, Rey-Iglesia A, Rahbek C, Nogues-Bravo D, Lorenzen ED (2024) 52,000 years of woolly rhinoceros population dynamics reveal extinction mechanisms. PNAS, 121 (24) e2316419121 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2316419121

Westbury MV, Brown SC, Lorenzen J, O’Neill S, Scott MB, McCuaig J, Cheung C, Armstrong E, Valdes PJ, Castruita JAS, Cabrera AA, Blom SK, Dietz R, Sonne C, Louis M, Galatius A, Fordham DA, Ribeiro S, Szpak P, Lorenzen ED (2023) Impact of Holocene environmental change on the evolutionary ecology of an Arctic top predator. Science Advances 9, eadf3326. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adf332

Westbury MV, Lorenzen ED (2022) Iteratively mapping ancient DNA to reconstruct highly divergent mitochondrial genomes: An evaluation of software, parameters and bait reference. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 13, 2419–2428. DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.13990

Cabrera AA, Rey-Iglesia A, Louis M, Skovrind M, Westbury MV, Lorenzen ED (2022) How low can you go? Introducing SeXY: Sex identification from low-quantity sequencing data despite lacking assembled sex chromosomes. Ecology and Evolution, 12:e9185. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.9185

Louis M, Skovrind M, Samaniego Castruita JA, Garilao C, Kaschner K, Gopalakrishnan S, Haile JS, Lydersen C, Kovacs KM, Garde E, Heide-Jørgensen MP, Postma L, Ferguson S, Willerslev E, Lorenzen ED (2020) Influence of past climatic change on phylogeography and demographic history of narwhals. Proceedings of the Royal Society Biology, 287: 20192964.

Skovrind M, Samaniego Castruita JA, Haile J, Treadaway EC, Gopalakrishnan S, Westbury MV, Heide-Jørgensen MP, Szpak P, Lorenzen ED (2019) Hybridization between two high Arctic cetaceans confirmed by genomic analysis. Scientific Reports, 9, 7729.

Westbury MV, Petersen B, Garde E, Heide-Jørgensen MP, Lorenzen ED (2019) Narwhal genome reveals long-term low genetic diversity despite current large census population size. iScience, 15, 592–599.