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Received — 4 April 2026 ⏭ Cell

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Four centuries of commercial whaling eroded 11,000 years of population stability in bowhead whales Michael V. Westbury · Stuart C. Brown · Andrea A. Cabrera · Hernán E. Morales · Bárbara Parreira · Jilong Ma · Moisès Coll Macià · Alba Rey-Iglesia · Arthur Dyke · Camilla Hjorth Scharff-Olsen · Michael B. Scott · Øystein Wiig · Lutz Bachmann · Kit M. Kovacs · Christian Lydersen · Steven H. Ferguson · Paul Szpak · Damien A. Fordham · Eline D. Lorenzen
Although bowhead whales remained genetically stable through 11,000 years of Holocene environmental change, commercial whaling upended this long-term stability, driving population subdivision and genomic erosion that are still unfolding today.
17 March 2026 at 08:00

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

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By: Michael V. Westbury · Stuart C. Brown · Andrea A. Cabrera · Hernán E. Morales · Bárbara Parreira · Jilong Ma · Moisès Coll Macià · Alba Rey-Iglesia · Arthur Dyke · Camilla Hjorth Scharff-Olsen · Michael B. Scott · Øystein Wiig · Lutz Bachmann · Kit M. Kovacs · Christian Lydersen · Steven H. Ferguson · Paul Szpak · Damien A. Fordham · Eline D. Lorenzen

17 March 2026 at 08:00

Although bowhead whales remained genetically stable through 11,000 years of Holocene environmental change, commercial whaling upended this long-term stability, driving population subdivision and genomic erosion that are still unfolding today.