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SUBMITTER: Heupink TH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3391457 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Heupink Tim H TH van den Hoff John J Lambert David M DM
Biology letters 20120222 4
Historically, king penguin populations on Macquarie Island have suffered greatly from human exploitation. Two large colonies on the island were drastically reduced to a single small colony as a result of harvesting for the blubber oil industry. However, recent conservation efforts have resulted in the king penguin population expanding in numbers and range to recolonize previous as well as new sites. Ancient DNA methods were used to estimate past genetic diversity and combined with studies of mod ...[more]